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  2. Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Kerepesi Cemetery, Budapest, Hungary Cemetery in China Cemetery in Kavala, Greece. A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of many dead people are buried or otherwise interred.

  3. Burial - Wikipedia

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    Individuals who are buried at the expense of the local authorities and buried in potter's fields may be buried in mass graves. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was once believed to have been buried in such a manner, but today it is known that such burials were never allowed in Mozart's Vienna, whose magistrates refused to agree to the burial regulations ...

  4. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.

  5. Intramural burial - Wikipedia

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    Another new feature was the practice of family burials, in which members of an extended family would be buried in a developing necropolis within their city. [13] One well-attested example of intramural burial in this period is at Titris Hoyuk in Southeastern Anatolia. From 2600 to 2400 BC, the site grew from a small village to a regional capital.

  6. Unmarked grave - Wikipedia

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    Conversely, a deliberately unmarked grave may signify disdain and contempt. The underlying intention of some unmarked graves may be to suggest that the person buried is not worthy of commemoration, and should therefore be completely ignored and forgotten, e.g., school shooters Seung-Hui Cho and Adam Lanza.

  7. Tomb of Antony and Cleopatra - Wikipedia

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    The tomb of Antony and Cleopatra is the undiscovered burial crypt of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII from 30 BC assumed to be located in Alexandria, Egypt.According to historians Suetonius and Plutarch, the Roman leader Octavian permitted their burial together after he had defeated them.

  8. Burial Act 1857 - Wikipedia

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    The consultation considered the ‘Exclusive Rights for Burial’. When purchasing a grave, a person usually buys the right to exclusively be buried in it for a period, often 100 years, they do not buy the land. Noted was the possibility of reusing graves with the permission of the Church of England.

  9. Ship burial - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, the archeologists discovered the remains of different animals buried within, such as horses, dogs, peacocks, and goshawks. [23] Dendrochronology suggests that the wood used for the ship was cut down in around 890. The ship is spacious, with a full deck across its interior, and is large enough for a crew of thirty to forty men. [21]