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  2. Female Stranger - Wikipedia

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    The Grave of the Female Stranger is a famous historical oddity, local landmark and visitor's attraction in the cemetery of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. The grave is the resting place of an unnamed individual who died in 1816 and was elevated to national intrigue by the mysterious headstone and romanticized ...

  3. Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa - Wikipedia

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    'Mound of Shards') [1] is a historical archaeological site located in Alexandria, Egypt, and is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Middle Ages. [2] The necropolis consists of a series of Alexandrian tombs, statues and archaeological objects of the Pharaonic funerary cult with Hellenistic and early Imperial Roman influences. Due to the ...

  4. Gadsby's Tavern - Wikipedia

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    In the 1890s, Frederick Schwab (a veteran who had served in the Alexandria Artillery also known as Kemper's Battery) was proprietor of a saloon located in the original 1785 tavern portion of Gadsby's Tavern at 132 N. Royal Street (See 132 street number with “Sal.” for Saloon at the site of the 1785 tavern in the 1891, 1896, and 1902 Sanborn Maps of Alexandria, VA.).

  5. Nelson's Island - Wikipedia

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    Nelson's Island (Arabic: جزيرة_جريشة or جزيرة نيلسون) is an island located in Abū Qīr Bay, off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt. It is a local site for picnics and recreation, and is the location of a group of British graves dating from the Napoleonic Wars. It was named after Horatio Nelson, the famous British admiral.

  6. Old Presbyterian Meeting House - Wikipedia

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    Over the years, the Presbyterian Cemetery has provided burial space for merchants, ship captains, the Reverend Elias Harrison—the fourth pastor of the Meeting House, who died during the Civil War—a half dozen of Alexandria's mayors, numerous representatives of the city's governing council, a number of prominent businessmen and ...

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  8. Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial - Wikipedia

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    Arlington House is the historic Custis family mansion built by George Washington Parke Custis from 1803–1818 as a memorial to George Washington.Currently maintained by the National Park Service, it is located in the U.S. Army's Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia (formerly Alexandria, D.C.).

  9. Shatby - Wikipedia

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    The main Alexandria cemetery complex is in Shatby. It was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1919. [1] It includes the Alexandria Military and War Memorial Cemetery, a Commonwealth War Cemetery that includes the graves of British and Empire service personnel who died in the First and Second World Wars.

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