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  2. Gravedigger - Wikipedia

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    Grave template, topped with the handle of a scythe.Church of St. Michael, Garway, England. Gravedigger with shovels, during the Siege of Sarajevo. Fossor (Latin fossorius, from the verb fodere 'to dig') is a term described in Chambers' dictionary as archaic, but can conveniently be revived to describe grave diggers in the Roman catacombs in the first three centuries of the Christian Era.

  3. Old Croghan Man - Wikipedia

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    Old Croghan Man (Seanfhear Chruacháin in Irish) is a well-preserved Irish Iron Age bog body found in June 2003. The remains are named after Croghan Hill, north of Daingean, County Offaly, near where the body was found. The find is on display in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin.

  4. Glasnevin Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    The cemetery is located in Glasnevin, Dublin, in two parts. The main part, with its trademark high walls and watchtowers, is located on one side of the road from Finglas to the city centre, while the other part, "St. Paul's," is located across the road and beyond a green space, between two railway lines.

  5. Gravedigger (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    The Gravediggers, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet; Gravedigger Jones, in the Harlem Detective novels by Chester Himes; Grave Digger, in the Gold Digger series of comics; Gravedigger (comics), several characters in DC comics; The Grave Digger, in Bones

  6. Dean's Grange Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Dean's Grange Cemetery (Irish: Reilig Ghráinseach an Déin; also spelled Deansgrange) is situated in the suburban area of Deansgrange in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, County Dublin, Ireland. Since it first opened in 1865, over 150,000 people have been buried there.

  7. Resurrectionists in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The police were called, but worried about adverse publicity, the school paid their attackers' bail and opened negotiations. The gang also attempted to put rivals out of business, sometimes by desecrating a graveyard (thereby rendering it unsafe to rob graves from for weeks thereafter) and other times by reporting freelance resurrectionists to ...

  8. Grave robbery - Wikipedia

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    These sites are often desecrated by grave robbers in search of old and valuable jewellery. Affected sites are typically in rural, forested areas where once-prominent, wealthy landowners and their families were interred. The remote and often undocumented locations of defunct private cemeteries make them particularly susceptible to grave robbery.

  9. People search site - Wikipedia

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    A people search site or people finder site is a specialized search engine that searches information from public records, data brokers and other sources to compile reports about individual people, usually for a fee. [1] [2] Early examples of people search sites included Classmates.com [3] and Whitepages.com. [4]