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Three historic sites within the St. Mary's Cemetery near Hague, North Dakota, United States, identified as St. Mary's Cemetery, Wrought-Iron Cross Site A, and St. Mary's Cemetery, Wrought-Iron Cross Site B, and St. Mary's Cemetery, Wrought-Iron Cross Site C, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Katherine Cross (March 13, 1899 – October 10, 1917) was a young Oklahoma woman, whose headstone epitaph which read, "Murdered by human wolves," was a source of local legend. Her grave (the headstone has been stolen as of July 2016) is located in Konawa Cemetery in Konawa, Oklahoma. [1] Cross may have been the victim of a botched abortion.
The phrase "Here Lies the Body" (or "Here lyes Buried the Body") makes this more explicit, implying that while the remains are present in the ground below, the soul has gone elsewhere. [ 22 ] Hijiya divides Northeastern American gravestones into six broad and overlapping styles reflective of "six different attitudes toward death". [ 23 ]
The lying in state of a body (prothesis) attended by family members, with the women ritually tearing their hair, depicted on a terracotta pinax by the Gela Painter, latter 6th century BC Ancient Greek funerary practices are attested widely in literature , the archaeological record, and in ancient Greek art .
The architect's choice of buildings to erect—double shelters, galleries, gateways, pergolas, sheltered alcoves, or single shelters—depended on the location of the War Stone, the Cross of Sacrifice, and the size of the cemetery. [74] The cross at Tyne Cot Cemetery near Ypres, Belgium, was incorporated into a pillbox.
A Cross for Queen Eleanor: the story of the building of the mediaeval Charing Cross, the subject of the decorations of the Northern Line platforms of the new Charing Cross Underground Station. London: London Transport. ISBN 0-85329-101-2. Griffin, Eric (2015). "Copying "the Anti-Spaniard": Post-Armada Hispanophobia and English Renaissance Drama".
An army veteran wins the Guinness World Record for “Most Tattooed Woman,” having 99.98% of her body covered in tattoos and other modifications Image credits: modifiedapparition
A few tombs at Olynthus have contained two coins, but more often a single bronze coin was positioned in the mouth or within the head of the skeleton. In Hellenistic-era tombs at one cemetery in Athens, coins, usually bronze, were found most often in the dead person's mouth, though sometimes in the hand, loose in the grave, or in a vessel. [40]