mausoleum
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He’s the reason lower Manhattan is today a lively, thriving urban environment rather than an urban-planning mausoleum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The service will be followed by a private burial in Norway's royal mausoleum in the Akershus Fortress.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
The bronze crypt plate mounted at the mausoleum had the star’s name engraved on it before she died, alongside her husband’s name and a depiction of her Tennessee home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
And Stalin himself, whose body was initially interred in the same mausoleum that housed the embalmed Vladimir Lenin, was subjected to criticism for some of his evil deeds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Bod saw the chaos on the floor of the Frobisher mausoleum, the fallen coffins with their contents scattered across over the aisle.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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“What does it mean to have some lone surviving mausolea in the middle of a massive jumble of roads and traffic?”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
"It looks like a large number of villa buildings, along with a probable bath house and perhaps even mausolea and a chapel," said Dr Gater.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2022
The National Museum of African American History and Culture now stands as a glittering golden crown on the Mall, in Washington DC, a brilliant foil to the neighbouring rows of white stone mausolea.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2017
We are their monuments; their mausolea is their country, and her growing prosperity the amaranthine wreath that Time shall place over their dust.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 2, part 2: John Quincy Adams by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
No pagan mausolea of the Via Appia or the Via Latina show a greater sense of security or are placed more conspicuously than this early Christian tomb.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
A Cuban tour guide at Havana’s historic Colón Cemetery, a popular visitor draw because of its elaborate monuments and mausoleums, said she lost her job this spring as tourism collapsed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
Conservative governor Tarcisio de Freitas on Tuesday signed the so-called Bob Coveiro law that will allow pets to be buried in family graves or mausoleums across Sao Paulo state.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
Jardines del Humaya, a sprawling cemetery on the outskirts of Sinaloa’s capital, Culiacán, contains several enormous mausoleums, including one made to resemble the Taj Mahal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi admitted to leading fighters who destroyed historic mausoleums at the world heritage site in Mali in 2012.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2024
Bod had stores of food, the kind that lasted, cached in the crypt, and more in some of the chillier tombs and vaults and mausoleums.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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