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| x New England Aquarium |
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The New England Aquarium, in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the most prominent and popular public aquariums in the United States. Founded in 1969 on the city's waterfront, it is considered one of the first modern public aquariums and is credited...
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| x Glasnevin Cemetery |
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Glasnevin Cemetery (Irish: Reilig Ghlas Naíon), officially known as Prospect Cemetery, is the largest nondenominational cemetery in Ireland. It first opened in 1832 and is located in Glasnevin, Dublin.
Prior to the establishment of Glasnevin...
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| x Montmartre Cemetery |
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Montmartre Cemetery (Fr: Cimetière de Montmartre) is a famous cemetery located at 37 Avenue Samson, in the 18 arrondissement of Paris, France.
Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the Cimetière des Innocents in 1786, as...
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| x Highgate Cemetery |
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Highgate Cemetery is a cemetery located in Highgate, London, England. It is designated Grade II* on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England.
The cemetery in its original form — the northwestern...
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| x Passy Cemetery |
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The Passy Cemetery (Fr: Cimetière de Passy) is a famous cemetery located at 2, rue du Commandant Schlœsing in Passy, in the 16 arrondissement of Paris, France.
In the early 19 century, on the orders of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, all the...
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| x Mount Pleasant Cemetery |
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Mount Pleasant Cemetery is a famous cemetery located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
In the early 19th century, the only authorized cemeteries within the city of Toronto (then known as York) were limited to the members of either the Roman Catholic...
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| x La Recoleta Cemetery |
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La Recoleta Cemetery is a famous cemetery located in the exclusive Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The layout of the cemetery was designed by the French engineer Próspero Catelin, and was remodeled in 1881, while Torcuato de...
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| x Arlington National Cemetery |
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Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington County, Virginia is a military cemetery in the United States, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna ...
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| x Fairview Lawn Cemetery |
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Fairview Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is a Canadian cemetery that is perhaps best known as the final resting place for over one hundred victims of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Officially known as Fairview Lawn Cemetery, the non...
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| x Novodevichy Cemetery |
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Novodevichy Cemetery (Russian: Новоде́вичье кла́дбище, Novodevichye kladbishche) is the most famous cemetery in Moscow, Russia, situated next to the World Heritage Site, the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular...
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| x Dean Cemetery |
Dean Cemetery is a well-known cemetery in Dean Village in Edinburgh, Scotland.
It stands on the site of Dean House (built 1614), part of Dean Estate which had been purchased in 1609 by Sir William Nisbet, who became in 1616 Lord Provost of Edinburgh...
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| x Powązki Cemetery |
Powązki Cemetery and Military Cemetery (Polish Cmentarz Powązkowski/Cmentarz Wojskowy) are the oldest and most famous cemetery in Warsaw, Poland, and are situated in the western part of the city. They contain a mausoleum with memorials to many of...
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| x Ford Park Cemetery |
Ford Park Cemetery is a 34.5-acre (140,000 m) cemetery in central Plymouth, England, established by the Plymouth, Stonehouse & Devonport Cemetery Company in 1846 and opened in 1848. At the time it was outside the boundary of the Three Towns and was...
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| x Green-Wood Cemetery |
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Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Kings County, New York, now in Brooklyn. It was granted National Historic Landmark status in 2006 by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Located in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, it lies...
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| x Kensal Green Cemetery |
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Kensal Green Cemetery is a burial ground located in Kensal Green, London, England. It was immortalised in the lines of G. K. Chesterton "For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen; Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green"....
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| x Holy Cross Cemetery |
Holy Cross Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery at 5835 West Slauson Avenue in Culver City, California, operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese.
Opened in 1939, Holy Cross is 200 acres (0.81 km). It contains—among others—the graves and tombs of show...
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| x Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery |
Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries refers to two Jewish cemeteries in the Los Angeles, California metropolitan area. The original cemetery is located at 5950 Forest Lawn Drive in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles. The cemetery was originally...
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| x Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery |
The Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 22601 Lassen Street, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California. It has been used as a cemetery since 1924, and there was a Native American graveyard next to the cemetery before a fire destroyed the old...
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| x Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica |
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Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery is located at 1847 14th Street in Santa Monica, California.
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| x San Fernando Mission Cemetery |
The San Fernando Mission Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery located at 11160 Stranwood Avenue in the Mission Hills community of the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California, near the San Fernando Mission.
The cemetery has been operated by the Los...
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| x Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery |
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Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 10621 Victory Boulevard in North Hollywood, California.
The cemetery has a special section called the Portal of Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation that is the final resting place for a number of aviation...
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| x Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles |
The Calvary Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery operated by the Los Angeles Archdiocese, located at 4201 Whittier Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. It is also called "New Calvary Cemetery" because the original 1896 cemetery on North Broadway...
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| x Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery |
Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 660 Thompson Lane in Nashville, Tennessee. It is one of the largest cemeteries in Nashville.
Among those interred or entombed in the cemetery, there are many prominent members of the country music genre...
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| x Gettysburg National Cemetery |
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Gettysburg National Cemetery is located on Cemetery Hill in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Shortly after the Battle of Gettysburg, with the support of Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin, the site was purchased and Union dead were moved from shallow and...
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| x Woodlawn Cemetery |
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Located in The Bronx, Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City. It opened as a rural cemetery in 1863, out in "the country", in what was then southern Westchester County, which was annexed to New York City in 1874. The...
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| x Camas Cemetery |
Camas Cemetery is a cemetery in Camas, Washington that was first used in 1860.
The Camas Catholic Cemetery, also known as Dead Lake Cemetery, was located on NE Lake road near Lacamas Lake. In 1984 the graves from there were moved to the Camas...
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| x Calvary Cemetery, Queens |
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Calvary Cemetery is located at 49-02 Laurel Hill Blvd. in Woodside in the New York City borough of Queens, New York. The cemetery is managed by the Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. It is one of the oldest and largest cemeteries in the...
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| x Mount Holly Cemetery |
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Mount Holly Cemetery is the original cemetery in the Quapaw Quarter area of downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, and is the resting place for numerous Arkansans of note. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been nicknamed "The...
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| x Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery |
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Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery is a historic cemetery located near Cabot in northern Lonoke County, Arkansas and is the site of Confederate military camp where 1,500 Confederate soldiers died during an epidemic during the fall of 1862.
Camp Nelson...
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| x Conway Cemetery Historic State Park |
Conway Cemetery State Park is an 11-acre (4.5 ha) historic location in Lafayette County, Arkansas, in the United States. It is administered by the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism.
Conway Cemetery State Park is located near the town of...
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| x Saint-Vincent Cemetery |
Saint-Vincent Cemetery (Fr:Cimetière Saint-Vincent) at 6, rue Lucien-Gaulard in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France was opened on January 5, 1831. It was Montmartre's second cemetery, built after the Cimetière du Calvaire had been filled.
A...
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| x Mount Hope Cemetery |
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Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York, founded in 1838, is the United States' first municipal rural cemetery. Situated on 196 acres (793,000 m²) (0.3 square miles) of land adjacent to the University of Rochester on Mount Hope Avenue, the...
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| x Batignolles Cemetery |
The Batignolles Cemetery (French: Cimetière des Batignolles) is a cemetery in Paris, located in the Épinettes district, in the northeastern part of the 17th arrondissement.
Extending over nearly eleven hectares, slightly larger than the Montmartre...
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| x United States National Cemetery |
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"United States National Cemetery" is a designation for 146 nationally important cemeteries in the United States. A National Cemetery is generally a military cemetery containing the graves of U.S. military personnel, veterans and their spouses but...
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| x Père Lachaise Cemetery |
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Père Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise; officially, cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France at (48 ha, 118.6 acres), though there are larger cemeteries in the city's suburbs.
Père...
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| x West Norwood Cemetery |
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West Norwood Cemetery is a 40-acre (160,000 m) cemetery in West Norwood in the London Borough of Lambeth in London, England.
By 2000 there had been 164,000 burials in 42,000 plots, plus 34,000 cremations and several thousand interments in its...
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| x Mount Auburn Cemetery |
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Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded in 1831 as "America's first garden cemetery", or the first "rural cemetery", with classical monuments set in a rolling landscaped terrain. The appearance of this type of landscape coincides with the rising...
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| x La Cambe |
Within a clearing dotted with trees and small dark stone crosses lie the remains of more than 21,000 German soldiers, sailors and airmen. In the center, topped by a large dark cross, which is flanked by statues is an impressive tumulus, which marks...
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| x Lychakivskiy Cemetery |
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Lychakiv Cemetery (Polish: Cmentarz Łyczakowski; Ukrainian: Личаківський цвинтар, translit. Lychakivs’kyi tsvyntar) is a famous and historic cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine.
Since its creation in 1787 as Łyczakowski Cemetery, it has been the main...
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| x Rasos Cemetery |
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Rasos Cemetery (Lithuanian: Rasų kapinės, Polish: Cmentarz na Rossie) is the oldest and most famous cemetery in the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. It is named after the Rasos district where it is located. It is separated into two parts, the old and the...
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| x Angelus Rosedale Cemetery |
Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery is a cemetery at 1831 West Washington Boulevard Los Angeles, California, in the historic West Adams District a short distance southwest of Downtown.
It was founded as Rosedale Cemetery in 1884, when Los Angeles was a small...
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| x Waverley Cemetery |
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The Waverley Cemetery opened in 1877 and is a cemetery located on top of the cliffs at Bronte in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. It is noted for its largely intact Victorian and Edwardian monuments. The cemetery contains the graves of many...
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| x Vagankovo Cemetery |
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Vagan'kovskoye Cemetery (Ваганьковское кладбище), established in 1771, is located in the Krasnaya Presnya (Красная Пресня) district of Moscow. It is the burial site for a number of people from the artistic and sports community of Russia and the old...
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| x Sleepy Hollow Cemetery |
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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is a cemetery located on Bedford Street near the center of Concord, Massachusetts. The cemetery is the burial site of a number of famous Concordians, including some of the United States' greatest authors and thinkers,...
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| x Metairie Cemetery |
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Metairie Cemetery is a cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The name has caused some people to mistakenly presume that the cemetery is located in Metairie, Louisiana, but it is located within the New Orleans city limits, on Metairie...
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| x Arlington Cemetery |
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Arlington Cemetery is a Washington Metro station in Arlington, Virginia on the Blue Line.
The station is located at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery, near Memorial Drive. There is no public parking near the station except at the cemetery,...
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| x Linwood Cemetery |
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Linwood Cemetery is located in Dubuque, Iowa. It is located on Windsor Avenue in the north end of Dubuque.
The cemetery is one of the main cemeteries in Dubuque. Originally established for the Protestants of the city, the cemetery now serves members...
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| x Lake View Cemetery |
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Lake View Cemetery is a cemetery located on Seattle, Washington, Capitol Hill just north of Volunteer Park. It is named for its view of Lake Washington to the east. It was founded in 1873 as the Seattle Masonic Cemetery.
Among those buried there are...
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| x Mount Royal Cemetery |
Opened in 1852, Mount Royal Cemetery is a 165-acre (668 000 m²) terraced cemetery on the north slope of Mount Royal in the borough of Outremont, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The burial ground shares the mountain with the much larger and predominantly...
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| x Brompton Cemetery |
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Brompton Cemetery is located near Earl's Court in West Brompton, a part of the Borough of Kensington & Chelsea in South West London, England (postal district SW5). It is managed by The Royal Parks and is one of the Magnificent Seven. Established by...
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| x Fernhill Cemetery |
Fernhill Cemetery, originally known as the Rural Cemetery at the time it opened in 1848, is located at 200 Westmorland Road in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. Renamed Fernhill in 1899, the 125 acre (0.5 km²) cemetery has a special section for...
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| x Camp Hill Cemetery |
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In 1844 Camp Hill Cemetery on Robie Street in the heart of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada replaced the city's first cemetery known as the Old Burying Ground that had been established almost 100 years earlier in 1749.
As a cemetery in the provincial...
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| x La Chacarita Cemetery |
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Cementerio de la Chacarita in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is known as the National Cemetery and is the largest in Argentina.
It owes its existence to a yellow fever epidemic in 1871, when existing cemeteries were strained beyond capacity (the upscale...
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| x Kanchanaburi War Cemetery |
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The Kanchanaburi War Cemetery is the main POW cemetery associated with victims of the Burma Railway. It is located in the town of Kanchanaburi, Thailand, and is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. 6,982 POWs are buried there,...
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Vladslo German war cemetery is about three kilometres north east of Vladslo, near Diksmuide, Belgium. Established during World War I, the cemetery holds 3,233 wartime burials. In 1956, burials from many smaller surrounding cemeteries were...
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| x Mount Calvary Cemetery |
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Mount Calvary Cemetery is one of the two main cemeteries for Catholics in the Dubuque, Iowa area. The cemetery is located at 1111 Davis St, Dubuque, Iowa. It is in the northern part of the city. The cemetery is located near two other cemeteries - St...
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| x Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery |
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The Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery (Chinese: 五指山國軍示範公墓, literally Wuchih Mountain National Military Model Public Cemetery) is Taiwan's most prominent military cemetery. The cemetery is located on Wuchih Mountain (五指山) in Hsichih, Taipei County...
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| x Mount Olivet Cemetery |
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Mount Olivet Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery located just south of Dubuque, Iowa in Key West, Iowa. It is one of the two main Catholic cemeteries for Dubuque area Catholics. The cemetery is located near Saint Joseph's Catholic Church in Key West....
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| x Key Hill Cemetery |
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Key Hill Cemetery, (grid reference SP059882), originally called Birmingham General Cemetery, a Nonconformist (non-denominational) cemetery, is the oldest cemetery (not being in a churchyard) in Birmingham, England. It opened on 23 May 1836. Located...
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| x Protestant Cemetery, Rome |
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The Protestant Cemetery (Italian: Cimitero protestante), officially called the Cimitero acattolico ("Non-Catholic Cemetery") and often referred to as the Cimitero degli Inglesi ("Englishmen's Cemetery") is a cemetery in Rome, located near Porta San...
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