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cemetery

[sem-i-ter-ee] / ˈsɛm ɪˌtɛr i /


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These include a fragment from Byron—only a few scribbled pages, set in a Turkish cemetery, about the mysterious Augustus Darvell—and a long story called “The Vampyre” by John William Polidori, Byron’s former doctor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The burial patterns showed that boys and girls often followed the same cemetery customs as adult men and women.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

"Anyone who banishes Stolpersteine and memorial sites commemorating Jewish life from public spaces to the cemetery is prioritising death over life and rendering Jewish people invisible once again," she told Bild.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Now, his son told members of Congress, Salgado Araujo’s wife spends those evenings visiting her husband’s grave at the cemetery.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

At Jabl Sahaba in Sudan, a 12,000-year-old cemetery containing fifty-nine skeletons was discovered.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Doan Van Cong, 68, and his family spent years touring cemeteries and talking to witnesses to discover what happened to his uncle, who died in 1950, when he was in his early 20s.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

This was true even in cemeteries where researchers found many biological family connections among the wider population.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

Turrell spoke movingly of the close friends he lost during the campaign, some of whom he buried in the field, and who are now buried in Commonwealth war cemeteries on the continent.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

As cemeteries become overcrowded, should loved ones become gardening soil?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

They ought to bury people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel




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