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Rock Creek Cemetery (also Rock Creek Church Cemetery) is an cemetery
Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which death body and cremation are burial. The term cemetery implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground....
 with a natural rolling landscape located at Rock Creek Church Road, NW, and Webster Street, NW, in the Petworth
Petworth, Washington, D.C.

Petworth is a residential neighborhood in the Washington, D.C. of Washington, D.C., bounded by Georgia Avenue to the west, North Capitol Street to the east, Rock Creek Church Road to the south, and Kennedy Street NW to the north....
 neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
 It is adjacent to the historic Soldiers' Home and to the Soldiers' Home Cemetery
United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery

United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, in Washington, D.C., is located next to the military retirement home. It is one of only two United States National Cemetery administered by the United States Department of the Army—the other being Arlington National Cemetery....
.

Established in 1719, Rock Creek was designed as part of the rural garden style
Rural cemetery

The rural cemetery or garden cemetery is a style of burial ground that uses landscaping in a park-like setting.As early as 1711 the architect Sir Christopher Wren had advocated the creation of burial grounds on the outskirts of town, "inclosed with a strong Brick Wall, and having a walk round, and two cross walks, decently planted w...
 to function as both cemetery and public park
Park

A park is a Environmental protection, in its natural or semi-natural state or planted, and set aside for human recreation and enjoyment....
. It is a ministry of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish (Washington, D.C.)

St. Paul's Episcopal Church, also known as Rock Creek Parish Church, is an historic church located on Rock Creek Church Road at Webster Street, N.W., in Washington, D.C....
.

Rock Creek Cemetery's park-like setting has many notable mausoleum
Mausoleum

A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons....
s and tombstones
Headstone

A headstone, tombstone, or gravestone is a marker, normally carved from Rock , placed over or next to the site of a burial in a cemetery or elsewhere....
.






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Rock Creek Cemetery (also Rock Creek Church Cemetery) is an cemetery
Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which death body and cremation are burial. The term cemetery implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground....
 with a natural rolling landscape located at Rock Creek Church Road, NW, and Webster Street, NW, in the Petworth
Petworth, Washington, D.C.

Petworth is a residential neighborhood in the Washington, D.C. of Washington, D.C., bounded by Georgia Avenue to the west, North Capitol Street to the east, Rock Creek Church Road to the south, and Kennedy Street NW to the north....
 neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
 It is adjacent to the historic Soldiers' Home and to the Soldiers' Home Cemetery
United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery

United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, in Washington, D.C., is located next to the military retirement home. It is one of only two United States National Cemetery administered by the United States Department of the Army—the other being Arlington National Cemetery....
.

Established in 1719, Rock Creek was designed as part of the rural garden style
Rural cemetery

The rural cemetery or garden cemetery is a style of burial ground that uses landscaping in a park-like setting.As early as 1711 the architect Sir Christopher Wren had advocated the creation of burial grounds on the outskirts of town, "inclosed with a strong Brick Wall, and having a walk round, and two cross walks, decently planted w...
 to function as both cemetery and public park
Park

A park is a Environmental protection, in its natural or semi-natural state or planted, and set aside for human recreation and enjoyment....
. It is a ministry of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish (Washington, D.C.)

St. Paul's Episcopal Church, also known as Rock Creek Parish Church, is an historic church located on Rock Creek Church Road at Webster Street, N.W., in Washington, D.C....
.

Rock Creek Cemetery's park-like setting has many notable mausoleum
Mausoleum

A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons....
s and tombstones
Headstone

A headstone, tombstone, or gravestone is a marker, normally carved from Rock , placed over or next to the site of a burial in a cemetery or elsewhere....
. The best known is Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White
Stanford White

Stanford White was an United States architect and partner in the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White, the frontrunner among Beaux-Arts architecture firms....
's Adams Memorial
Adams Memorial (grave marker)

The Adams Memorial is a grave marker located in Section E of Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C., that features a cast bronze allegorical sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens....
, a contemplative androgynous
Androgyny

Androgyny is a term derived from the Greek language words a??? and ???? that can refer to either of two related concepts about gender: the mixing of masculinity and femininity characteristics, as in fashion statements; or the balance of "anima and animus" in Analytical psychology....
 bronze sculpture seated before a block of granite. It marks the graves of Clover Hooper Adams
Marian Hooper Adams

Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams was an United States socialite, active society hostess and arbiter of Washington, D.C., and an accomplished amateur photographer....
 and her husband, Henry Adams, and is sometimes mistakenly referred to as Grief. Saint-Gaudens called it The Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Understanding.

Other notable memorials include the Frederic Keep Monument, the Heurich Mausoleum, the Hitt Monument, the Hardon Monument, the Kauffman Monument, known as The Seven Ages of Memory, the Sherwood Mausoleum Door, and the Thompson-Harding Monument.

On August 12, 1977, Rock Creek Cemetery and adjacent church grounds were placed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation....
.

National Register listing

  • Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery (added 1977 - Site - #77001498)
  • Also known as See Also:Adams Memorial
  • Webster St. and Rock Creek Church Rd., NW., Washington
  • Historic Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering, Information Potential
  • Architectural Style: Gothic Revival
  • Area of Significance: Architecture, Social History, Art, Historic - Non-Aboriginal, Landscape Architecture
  • Cultural Affiliation: American
  • Period of Significance: 1700–1749, 1750–1799, 1800–1824, 1825–1849, 1850–1874, 1875–1899, 1900–1924
  • Owner: Private
  • Historic Function: Funerary, Religion
  • Historic Sub-function: Cemetery, Religious Structure


Partial list of notable interments and families


A

  • Cleveland Abbe
    Cleveland Abbe

    Cleveland Abbe was a famous United States of America meteorologist and advocate of time zones. While director of the Cincinnati Observatory in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ohio, he developed a system of telegraphic weather reports, daily weather maps, and weather forecasts....
     (1838–1916), prominent American meteorologist
  • Henry Adams (1838–1918), American writer, descendant of two U.S. Presidents. Grave is marked by the Adams Memorial (section E)
  • Clover Hooper Adams
    Marian Hooper Adams

    Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams was an United States socialite, active society hostess and arbiter of Washington, D.C., and an accomplished amateur photographer....
     (1843–1885), Washington hostess and accomplished amateur photographer, wife of Henry Adams. Grave is marked by the Adams Memorial (section E)
  • Alice Warfield Allen (1869–1929), mother of the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson (section G)
  • Doug Allison
    Doug Allison

    Douglas L. Allison played catcher for the original Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first fully professional baseball baseball team. He was considered a specialist, at a time when some of the better batsmen who manned the position normally rested, or substituted at other fielding positions....
     (1846–1916), American baseball player
  • Frank Crawford Armstrong
    Frank Crawford Armstrong

    Frank Crawford Armstrong was a United States Army cavalry officer and later a Brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War....
     (1835–1909), Confederate general
  • James B. Aswell (1869–1931), American educator and member of the House of Representatives from 1913 to 1931
  • Howard Auster (1929–2003), American writer, partner of Gore Vidal
    Gore Vidal

    Gore Vidal is an United States novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer and politician. Early in his career he wrote the ground-breaking The City and the Pillar , which outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality....


B


  • Abraham Baldwin
    Abraham Baldwin

    Abraham Baldwin was an Politics of the United States, Patriot , and Founding Fathers of the United States from the U.S. state of Georgia . Baldwin was a Georgia representative in the Continental Congress and served in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate after the adoption of the United States Constitution....
     (1754–1807), American politician, a signer of the Constitution
  • Henry Baldwin
    Henry Baldwin (judge)

    Henry Baldwin was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of the Supreme Court of the United States from January 18, 1830, to April 21, 1844....
    , Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
  • Melville Bell
    Alexander Melville Bell

    Alexander Melville Bell , teacher and father of Alexander Graham Bell , was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.He studied under and became the principal assistant of his father, Alexander Bell, an authority on phonetics and defective speech....
     (1819–1905), Scottish teacher and inventor, father of Alexander Graham Bell
    Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, Innovation and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work....
     (section A)
  • Emile Berliner
    Emile Berliner

    Emile Berliner was a Germany-born United States inventor, best known for developing the gramophone record gramophone . He founded The Berliner Gramophone Company in 1895, The Gramophone Company in London, England, in 1897, Deutsche Grammophon in Hanover, Germany, in 1898 and Berliner Gramophone#Berliner Gram-o-phone Company of Canada in Mon...
     (1851–1929), German-born American inventor of the gramophone
    Gramophone

    Gramophone might refer to:* The British English term for U.S. English "phonograph", the first device for recording and replaying sound. The two names were originally those used by rival manufacturers...
     (section M)
  • Montgomery Blair
    Montgomery Blair

    Montgomery Blair , the son of Francis Preston Blair, elder brother of Francis Preston Blair, Jr. and cousin of B. Gratz Brown, was a politician and lawyer from Maryland....
     (1813–1883), Lincoln's Postmaster General
    Postmaster General

    A Postmaster General is the national politician in charge of the postal system of a country. In most nations he or she is an appointed official of Cabinet rank....
     (section A)
  • Robert C. Buchanan
    Robert C. Buchanan

    Robert Christie Buchanan was an United States of America military officer who served in the Mexican-American War and then was a General officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War....
     (1811–1878), American military general


C

  • Catherine Cate Coblentz
    Catherine Cate Coblentz

    Catherine Cate Coblentz was an American writer, best-known for her children's books in the 1930s and 1940s....
     (1897–1951), writer and wife of William Coblentz (section O)
  • William Coblentz
    William Coblentz

    William Weber Coblentz was an United States physicist notable for his contributions to infrared radiometry and spectroscopy....
     (1873–1962), American physicist, notable for pioneer contributions to infrared radiometry and spectroscopy (section O)
  • Charles Corby, inventor of baking technology used for Wonder Bread
    Wonder Bread

    Wonder Bread is the name of Three North American brands of white bread: One produced by George Weston Limited in Canada, an other by Interstate Bakeries Corporation in the United States, & the third by Grupo Bimbo...
     (section 13)


D

  • S. Wallace Dempsey
    S. Wallace Dempsey

    Stephen Wallace Dempsey was an United States Republican Party politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....
     (1862–1949), American Republican politician


E

  • Matthew Gault Emery
    Matthew Gault Emery

    Matthew Gault Emery was Mayor of Washington, D.C. from 1870 to 1871, when the office was abolished. Emery was the last mayor of Washington, D.C....
     (1818–1901), Mayor of Washington, D.C., from 1870 to 1871


F

  • Ada Benham Fairfax (1833–1888), wife of Charles S. Fairfax
  • Charles S. Fairfax
    Charles S. Fairfax

    Charles Snowdon Fairfax was an United States Democratic Party politician of California. He was of Scottish American noble descent and was himself entitled to the title as the 10th Lord Fairfax of Cameron....
     (1829–1869), Virginia born California politician who was entitled to the British title 10th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
  • Stephen Johnson Field
    Stephen Johnson Field

    Stephen Johnson Field was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from May 20 1863, to December 1 1897. Prior to this, he was the 5th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court....
     (1816–1899), American associate justice of Supreme Court
  • Israel Moore Foster
    Israel Moore Foster

    Israel Moore Foster was a Republican Party Representative in the United States Congress from the State of OhioHe was born in Athens, Ohio, on January 12, 1873....
     (1873–1950), American Republican Representative in Congress
  • William H. French
    William H. French

    William Henry French was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army General officer in the American Civil War. He rose to temporarily command a corps within the Army of the Potomac, but was relieved of active field duty following poor performance during the Mine Run Campaign in late 1863....
     (1815–1881), American military officer, general during Civil War


G

  • Julius Garfinckel
    Julius Garfinckel

    Julius Garfinckel was a prominent United States merchant, executive officer and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Washington, D.C., department store Garfinckel's....
     (1872–1936), American merchant, founder of Washington department store Garfinckel's
  • Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor
    Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor

    Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor , the father of photojournalism, was the first full-time editing of National Geographic Society#National Geographic Magazine, serving from 1899 to 1954....
     (1875–1966), President of the National Geographic Society (section A)


H

  • John Marshall Harlan
    John Marshall Harlan

    'John Marshall Harlan' was an American Supreme Court of the United States Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He is most notable as the lone dissenter in the famous 1896 case of Plessy v....
     (1833–1911), American Supreme Court judge, known as the "Great Dissenter;" he wrote the lone dissenting opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson (section R-11)
  • Patricia Roberts Harris
    Patricia Roberts Harris

    Patricia Roberts Harris served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the last United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the first United States Secretary of Health and Human Services in the administration of President of the United States Jimmy Carter....
     (1924–1985), Ambassador, first African American female to serve in a Presidential Cabinet (section 20)
  • George L. Harrison
    George L. Harrison

    George L. Harrison was an United States banker, insurance executive and advisor to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson during World War II.Born in San Francisco, California, he was educated at Yale University and Harvard Law School....
     (1887–1958), American banker, insurance executive and political advisor during WWII
  • Frank Hatton (1846–1894), U.S. Postmaster General and editor of the Washington Post


I


J

  • Charles Francis Jenkins
    Charles Francis Jenkins

    Charles Francis Jenkins was an United States pioneer of history of cinema and one of the inventors of television, though he used mechanical rather than electronic technologies....
     (1867–1934), American television pioneer
  • Nelson T. Johnson
    Nelson T. Johnson

    Nelson Trusler Johnson was the Ambassadors from the United States to the Republic of China prior to World War II, and to Australia during World War II....
     (1887–1954), American ambassador
  • James Kimbrough Jones
    James Kimbrough Jones

    James Kimbrough Jones was a United States of America politician.Born in Marshall County, Mississippi, Jones moved with his father to Dallas County, Arkansas in 1848....
     (1839–1908), American politician


K


  • Oliver Hudson Kelley
    Oliver Hudson Kelley

    Oliver Hudson Kelley is considered the "Father" of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry .Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he moved to the Minnesota frontier in 1849, where he became a farmer....
     (1826–1913), a founder of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (The Grange) (section I)


L

  • Blair Lee, III (1916–1985), American Democratic politician
  • Walter Lenox
    Walter Lenox

    Walter Lenox was Mayor of Washington, D.C. for one two-year term, from 1850 to 1852. Lenox was the first mayor to be born in the city of Washington, graduating from Yale in 1837 and returning to the Capital to practice law in the early 1840s....
     (1817–1874), Mayor of Washington from 1850 to 1852
  • Fulton Lewis
    Fulton Lewis

    Fulton Lewis, Jr. was a famous television and radio broadcaster from the 1930s to the 1960s. He broadcast from the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, D.C....
     (1903–1966), American radio and television broadcaster
  • Alice Roosevelt Longworth
    Alice Roosevelt Longworth

    Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth was the oldest child of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. She was the only child of Roosevelt and his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt....
     (1884–1980), Republican Party icon, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt (section F)
  • Paulina Longworth Sturm
    Paulina Longworth

    Paulina Longworth Sturm was the only child of Ohio Congressman Nicholas Longworth and his wife Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and the granddaughter of U.S....
     (1925–1957), daughter of Alice Roosevelt and Nicholas Longworth
  • Anthony Francis Lucas
    Anthony Francis Lucas

    Anthony Francis Lucas was a Croatian mechanical engineer responsible for the first successful oil well at the Spindletop oil field in Southeast Texas, which made Beaumont, Texas one of the first oil boomtowns....
     (1855–1921), Croatian-born mechanical engineer


M

  • Evalyn Walsh McLean
    Evalyn Walsh McLean

    Evalyn Walsh McLean was an American mining heiress and socialite who was famous for being the last private owner of the Hope Diamond as well as another famous diamond, the Star of the East....
     (1886–1947), wealthy heiress and one-time owner of the Hope Diamond and the Washington Post
  • Jenny McKean Moore (1929–1973), author, tombstone is inscribed: "The loneliness and hilarity of survival."


N


O


P

  • Rosalie Mackenzie Poe (1810–1874), sister of Edgar Allan Poe
    Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, Short story writer, Editing and Literary criticism, and is considered part of the American Romanticism. Best known for his tales of Mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the Detective fiction genre....
     (section D)
  • Terence Powderly
    Terence V. Powderly

    Terence Vincent Powderly was born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, the son of Irish people immigrants. He was a well-known national figure as leader of the Knights of Labor from 1879 until 1893....
     (1849–1924), longtime leader of the Knights of Labor


Q


R


  • John B. Raymond
    John B. Raymond

    John Baldwin Raymond was a Delegate from Dakota Territory to the United States House of Representatives. He was born in Lockport , New York, Niagara County, New York, then moved with his parents to Tazewell County, Illinois in 1853....
     (1844–1886), American politician
  • Isidor Rayner
    Isidor Rayner

    Isidor Rayner was a Democratic Party member of the United States Senate, representing the Maryland from 1905-1912. He also represented the Maryland's 4th congressional district of Maryland from 1887 to 1889, and 1891 to 1895....
     (1850–1912), American Democratic politician, member of the Senate
  • George Washington Riggs
    George Washington Riggs

    George Washington Riggs was an United States businessman and banker. He was known as "The President's Banker."...
     (1813–1881), American banker, founder of Riggs Bank (section D)
  • William A. Rodenberg
    William A. Rodenberg

    William August Rodenberg was a United States House of Representatives from Illinois.Born near Chester, Illinois, Rodenberg attended the public schools....
     (1865–1937), American politician
  • Tim Russert
    Tim Russert

    Timothy John Russert was an United States television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's Meet the Press....
     (1950–2008), American journalist, host of 'Meet the Press' (section C)


S


  • Alexander Robey Shepherd
    Alexander Robey Shepherd

    Alexander Robey Shepherd , better known as Boss Shepherd, was one of the most controversial and influential civic leaders in the history of Washington, D.C., and one of the most powerful big-city political bosses of the Gilded Age....
     (1835–1902), American politician, Governor of District of Columbia from 1873 to 1874
  • Upton Sinclair
    Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair, Jr. , was a Pulitzer Prize-winning prolific United States author who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered to be one of the best investigators advocating Socialism views....
     (1878–1968), American author, Pulitzer Prize winner (section 17)
  • Harlan Fiske Stone
    Harlan Fiske Stone

    Harlan Fiske Stone was an United States lawyer and judge. A native of New Hampshire he served as the dean of Columbia Law School, his alma mater in the early 20th century....
     (1872–1946), Chief Justice of the U.S. (section A)


T

  • Abner Taylor
    Abner Taylor

    Abner Taylor was a United States House of Representatives from Illinois.Born in Bangor, Maine, Taylor moved with his parents to Champaign County, Ohio in 1832, thence to Fort Dodge, Iowa, and subsequently to Chicago, Illinois in 1860....
     (1829–1903), American politician
  • George Taylor
    George Taylor (New York Representative)

    George Taylor was an United States attorney at law and Democratic Party politician. He served as a United States House of Representatives from New York....
     (1820–1894), American attorney and Democratic politician
  • Thomas Weston Tipton (1817–1899), U.S. Senator from Nebraska


U


V


  • Tran Van Chuong
    Tran Van Chuong

    Tr?n Van Chuong was South Vietnam's ambassador to the United States in the early 1960s and the father of the country's de facto first lady, Madame Nhu....
     (1898–1986), South Vietnam's Ambassador to the U.S. appointed by Ngo Dinh Diem
  • Willis Van Devanter
    Willis Van Devanter

    Willis Van Devanter was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, January 3, 1911 to June 2, 1937.Born in Marion, Indiana, he graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1881....
     (1859–1941), Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (section R-11)


W


  • Charles Doolittle Walcott
    Charles Doolittle Walcott

    Charles Doolittle Walcott was an United States invertebrate paleontologist. He became known for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess shale formation of British Columbia, Canada....
     (1850–1927), Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
    Smithsonian Institution

    The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its Financial endowment, contributions, and profits from its shops and its magazine....
     (section L)
  • Sumner Welles
    Sumner Welles

    Benjamin Sumner Welles was an United States Federal government of the United States and diplomacy in the United States Foreign Service.He was a major foreign policy advisor to President of the United States Franklin D....
     (1892–1961), American diplomat, Under Secretary of State from 1937 to 1943
  • Burton K. Wheeler
    Burton K. Wheeler

    Burton Kendall Wheeler was a Montana politician of the Democratic Party and a United States Senate from 1923 until 1947.Wheeler was born in Hudson, Massachusetts....
     (1882–1975), American Democratic politician and U.S. Senator
  • James Alexander Williamson
    James Alexander Williamson

    James A. Williamson was a politician, and lawyer who served in the Union army during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of brigadier general....
     (1829–1902), Union Army
    Union Army

    The Union Army was the army that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S....
     general
  • Richard L. Wilson
    Richard L. Wilson (journalist)

    Richard Lawson Wilson was an United States of America journalismWilson was born in Galesburg, Illinois, and raised in Newton, Iowa. He was the son of Frank and Emily Wilson, and was the youngest of nine children....
     (1905–1981), American journalist


Y


Z


See also

  • List of cemeteries
    List of cemeteries

    This list of cemeteries compiles notable cemetery, mausoleums and other places people are burial, worldwide. Reasons for notability include their design, their history and their burial....


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