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Cemetery Ridge
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
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2001
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Cemetery Ridge a ridge south of
Gettysburg where Union forces held against “
Pickett's Charge” on July 3, 1863. Cemetery Ridge and the adjacent
Cemetery Hill were Union strongholds against Confederate attacks commanded by Gen.
Robert E. Lee. Union Gen.
George G. Meade's defeat of Gen.
George E. Pickett at Gettysburg is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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CEMETERIES NEGLECTED AS CARETAKERS RETIRE.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/2/1997; 700+ words
; ...garden and a cemetery is there is a...sensitivity to cemeteries than gardens...New York, no cemetery can be run for...The Division of Cemeteries tries to help...to keep up the cemetery. Some cemeteries run into financial...
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CEMETERIES VIRTUALLY UNTOUCHED BY CHANGE.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/30/1993; 700+ words
; ...and half are religious cemeteries, mostly Catholic...created by the 1949 Cemetery Law, passed to end...profit operations. Cemeteries had to declare themselves...New York non-profit cemeteries are among the most regulated...American Association of Cemetery Regulators. But because...
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CEMETERIES ARE NATIONAL SHRINES.(DAILY BREAK)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 5/25/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...of national cemeteries and what is...the National Cemetery System ``for...100 national cemeteries are located...Affairs' National Cemetery System, while...interesting national cemeteries: Arlington National Cemetery is one of the...
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 "South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Cemetery full by end of year.(News)
Newspaper article from: South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales); 2/12/2007; 683 words
; ...to extend Thornhill Cemetery, it will be full within 10 months. And other cemeteries in the city are facing...running out at Cardiff cemetery: Cardiff's main cemetery...council's long term cemeteries and crematorium strategy...priorities.' 'Pantmawr Cemetery has enough space for...
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 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Cemetery wants to be seen more like a park.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 6/18/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...birdwatchers to the cemetery for organized tours...other things other cemeteries don't have...of the Illinois Cemetery and Funeral Home...more popular as cemeteries try to respond...of many historic cemeteries and instead try...said. At Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park...
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CEMETERY EASY TARGET FOR VANDALS CRYPT BREAK-IN NOT FIRST.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/27/1987; 700+ words
; ...taken from a crypt at Vale Cemetery over the weekend is the latest...parties in St. Joseph's Cemetery. But since the unit's establishment...vandalism - and that may include cemeteries. Officers are paid overtime...parents whose children destroy cemetery property, according to Betty...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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CEMETERY TO STARS BOUGHT; FUNERAL DIRECTOR RESCUES HOLLYWOOD MEMORIAL PARK FROM PROBABLE CLOSURE.(NEWS)(Statistical Data Included)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 11/13/1997; 700+ words
; ...several funeral homes and cemeteries, offered a high bid...500,000 for the old cemetery - at a trustee's auction...was director of the cemetery's Beth Olam Jewish...she feared that if the cemetery closed, she would have...those horror stories of cemeteries that are closing and...
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Cemeteries experience recent rash of break-ins
Newspaper article from: Honolulu Star - Bulletin; 4/29/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific...posted at most cemeteries warning people...unattended. But cemetery managers say...Several Oahu cemeteries are beefing...operations at cemeteries. But police and cemetery personnel say...
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 "Cape Argus (South Africa)")
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Cemeteries out of burial room - again; New township sites unfinished.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Argus (South Africa); 8/20/2007; 700+ words
; ...and Gugulethu cemeteries and promises were made of new cemetery space being...comment. City cemetery co-ordinator...and Gugulethu cemeteries were now full...the city's cemeteries. The first...Khayelitsha cemetery would accommodate...
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 "Mail Tribune (Medford, OR)")
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Cemetery's new owners look to restore it.
Newspaper article from: Mail Tribune (Medford, OR); 9/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...other family members in the Central Point Cemetery at 4900 Hamrick Road. What caused their...overturned headstones in the 7.5-acre cemetery. "It's an eyesore for Central Point...Aaron Nadauld, who recently acquired the cemetery with his brother-in-law, attorney...
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Cemeteries, Military
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...permanent national cemetery system in 1862 for...x2010;maintained cemeteries were located near a...the national military cemeteries, especially Arlington National Cemetery. Since many of the cemeteries were established near...
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Cemeteries
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...by a family. A cemetery includes not only...and grounds. Cemeteries are not governed...specifically apply to cemeteries. Establishment...establishment of a cemetery involves the process...enlargement of existing cemeteries, or the establishment...and maintain a cemetery when it is ...
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Cemeteries and Cemetery Reform
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Cemeteries and Cemetery Reform When death...Churchyards to Extramural Cemeteries The most salient predecessor...the modern Western cemetery is the Roman cemetery, where each body...century British cemeteries reveal extensive urban...
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cemetery
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...June 1804), cemeteries were to be established...design of a great cemetery at Mont-Louis...properly without a cemetery or cemeteries, and many of...include the war cemeteries established after...fine Woodlands Cemetery near Stockholm...
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Cemeteries, War
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
...German borders, 667 cemeteries in forty-three countries...possible to lay out new cemeteries in former communist countries. In the 1990s a new cemetery was opened for 70,000...responsible for completing war cemeteries for passed German soldiers...
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