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1. Gen. George Custer. West Point, New York The Civil War general most famous for his "last stand" at the Battle of Little Big Horn can be found in the West Point Cemetery alongside many other ...
New Jewish Cemetery, Prague – built next to the Olšany Cemetery to alleviate the space problems faced by the Old Jewish Cemetery, it is the burial place of Franz Kafka; Vyšehrad cemetery, Prague – the Czech Republic's most important cemetery, it is the burial site for Antonín Dvořák, Alphonse Mucha and Bedřich Smetana, amongst others.
See also Category:Monuments and memorials, cenotaph, monument, catacombs, cemetery, pyramid, list of Cemeteries, list of mausoleums, list of Memorials, list of pyramid mausoleums in North America. This is a list of tombs and mausoleums that are either notable in themselves, or contain the remains of a notable person/people. Tombs are organized ...
Jayne Mansfield (1933–1967), actress [2] (Cenotaph; she is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania) (aged 34) Hank Mann (1888-1971), comic actor of silent films (an original Sennett Keystone Cop, prizefighter vs Charlie Chaplin in “City Lights”), extra in many talkies including many Frank Capra movies) (aged 83)
It is the largest cemetery in the world. [1] [2] The cemetery covers 1,485.5 acres (601.16 ha; 6.01 km 2; 2.32 sq mi) and contains more than 6 million bodies. [3] It also attracts millions of pilgrims annually. [4] The cemetery is located near the shrine of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth Sunni Caliph, as well as the first Shia Imam. [5]
The cemetery is most famous for its representatives from the arts world, some of whom were originally buried here, while others were reinterred here during the Soviet period. Composers and musicians buried in the cemetery include Alexander Borodin , César Cui , Alexander Dargomyzhsky , Alexander Glazunov , Mikhail Glinka , Modest Mussorgsky ...
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Celebrities who share a cemetery. Because there is a finite amount of land, and infinite amount of dead people, burial plots in this and many other cemeteries started being sold or flipped like ...