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  2. Cenotaph - Wikipedia

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    The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London The statue of Archbishop Makarios III near the Kykkos Monastery in Cyprus Cenotaph tombstone for Joshua Huddy, Manalapan, New Jersey Cenotaph for Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Basilique Saint-Denis, France. A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains ...

  3. Cave of the Patriarchs - Wikipedia

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    This hypothesis is supported by the phrasing of some Bible verses, such as Genesis 49:30, "the cave in the field of the Makhpela . . ." The question over the right interpretation of makhpela has been discussed extensively in various Biblical commentaries. [20] Strong's Concordance derives makhpela from kaphal, [21] a verb meaning “to double ...

  4. David's Tomb - Wikipedia

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    The cenotaph is located in a corner of a room situated on the ground floor remains of the former Hagia Zion, considered as an early church or late [clarification needed] era synagogue; [15] the upper floor of the same building has traditionally been viewed by Christians as the "Cenacle" or "Upper Room", the site of the Last Supper.

  5. Cenotaph: What is the history and significance of the ...

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    War memorial honouring Britain’s fallen soldiers designed by Sir Edward Lutyens in 1920 and has stood as centrepiece of National Service of Remembrance ever since

  6. Osireion - Wikipedia

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    Strabo visited the Osireion in the first century BCE and gave a description of the site as it appeared in his time: . Above this city [Ptolemaïs] lies Abydus, where is the Memnonium, a royal building, which is a remarkable structure built of solid stone, and of the same workmanship as that which I ascribed to the Labyrinth, though not multiplex; and also a fountain which lies at a great depth ...

  7. The Cenotaph - Wikipedia

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    The Cenotaph is a war memorial on Whitehall in London, England. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, it was unveiled in 1920 as the United Kingdom's national memorial to the dead of Britain and the British Empire of the First World War, was rededicated in 1946 to include those of the Second World War, and has since come to represent the Commonwealth casualties from those and subsequent conflicts.

  8. Wellington Cenotaph - Wikipedia

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    The Wellington Cenotaph, also known as the Wellington Citizens' War Memorial, is a war memorial located on the intersection of Lambton Quay and Bowen Street in Wellington, New Zealand. It commemorates the war dead of the two world wars.

  9. Sutton Hoo - Wikipedia

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    In 1938, when the mound was excavated, iron rivets were found, which enabled the Mound 2 grave to be interpreted as a small boat. [36] Carver's re-investigation revealed that there was a rectangular plank-lined chamber, 5 metres (16 ft) long by 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) wide, sunk below the land surface, with the body and grave-goods laid out in it ...