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mausoleum
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2009
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mau·so·le·um
/ ˌmôzəˈlēəm; ˌmôsə-/
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n.
(pl. -le·a
/ -ˈlēə/ or -le·ums
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a building, esp. a large and stately one, housing a tomb or tombs.
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 "St. Louis Post-Dispatch (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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Mausoleum crypts put some life into cemeteries.
Newspaper article from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 11/6/2003; 700+ words
; ...above-ground mausoleum crypts. Two mausoleums being built...small, private mausoleums. And some cemeteries...offered public mausoleum space for anyone...general and mausoleums in particular...the walls of a mausoleum, and you would...
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Mausoleum construction begins
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 8/13/2004; ; 606 words
; ...inside." As a rule, mausoleum burials aren't getting...cemeteries are building mausoleums," Walkinshaw said...purchase a crypt in a mausoleum, you're purchasing...with location. But mausoleums are beautiful." Kish...in people purchasing mausoleum space, however, because...
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+(via+Knight-Ridder%2fTribune+Business+News) "Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)")
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CORRECTION: Mausoleums Begin to Make a Comeback in U.S.
Newspaper article from: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News); 5/14/2004; 700+ words
; ...of building private mausoleums, those elaborate stone...Co., the largest mausoleum builder in the country, only about 65 private mausoleums were built in 1985...a special panel on mausoleum building to its managerial...high-end granite mausoleums this spring and is...
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Yongling Mausoleum preserves art, history
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 5/11/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...usually liked having their mausoleums built deep in the earth...ancient times. If a mausoleum was buried deep, the...few excavated Chinese mausoleums built above ground. When building the Yongling Mausoleum, workers first used...
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 "Telegraph (Alton, IL)")
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Mausoleum fans plan restoration.
Newspaper article from: Telegraph (Alton, IL); 6/4/2007; 700+ words
; ...relatives of those interred in the Fernwood Mausoleum are alive to see what became of the once...glass windows of the 1914 edifice. The mausoleum in Roodhouse's Fernwood Cemetery has...said Jerry Killion, a member of the mausoleum's Greene County Mausoleum Board...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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Cemeteries moving toward mausoleums
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 1/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...is also involved in mausoleum projects in Jersey...all their grandeur, mausoleums are often more uniform...reach, in one of the mausoleum's top tiers unless...Still, communal mausoleums bring entombment within...not afford a family mausoleum, which can cost millions...
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Posh mausoleums: Boomers still living the high life in death
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 4/19/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...1,000 private mausoleums were sold in the...a Pittsburgh mausoleum manufacturer...distributor of private mausoleums based in Plantation...20% of private mausoleum sales in the U...Park, a standard mausoleum crypt goes for...Unlike community mausoleums, private ones...
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Feature: Xiaoling Mausoleum, setting architectural pattern foremperors' tombs
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 6/23/2004; 699 words
; ...imperial Xiaoling Mausoleum, the burial site...craftsmanship of Chinese mausoleums and set a pattern...over 20 emperors' mausoleums in the following...has restored the mausoleum, whose buildings...of the imperial mausoleums of Tang (618...general structure of mausoleum architecture ...
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Terracotta warriors at Qinshihuang's mausoleum: 8th world wonder
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 6/16/2004; 700+ words
; ...Terracotta warriors at Qinshihuang's mausoleum: 8th world wonder XI'AN, June 16...site of the terracotta warriors at the Mausoleum of the Emperor Qinshihuang, the first...the Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC). The mausoleum, located in Lintong County, 35 kilometers...
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Renovation of Genghis Khan's Mausoleum underway in north China
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 12/28/2004; 700+ words
; Renovation of Genghis Khan's Mausoleum underway in north China HOHHOT, Dec...A large-scale renovation of the mausoleum of Genghis Khan, a proud son of Heaven...tourists, said Mengkeduren, head of the mausoleum's administrative bureau. Genghis Khan...
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mausoleum
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...remarkable series of domed mausoleums, many of them used as pleasure...lifetime. The most celebrated mausoleum, built by Shah Jahan at Agra...as the Taj Mahal . Notable mausoleums of modern times are those...the United States the term mausoleum is used loosely to describe...
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Hadrian's Mausoleum
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hadrian's Mausoleum or Hadrian's Mole: see Castel Sant' Angelo .
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Tombs
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
...Mausolus (hence the word mausoleum ), the king of Caria (Asia...memorial, funerary monument, mausoleum, and even with cenotaph...the Egyptian pharaohs or the mausoleums of the Roman emperors or the...building a large circular mausoleum, a dynastic tomb designed...
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Lenin's Tomb
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...Nadezhda Krupskaya, Soviet leaders built a mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square to display his...was completed in 1929. The top of the mausoleum held a tribune from which Soviet leaders...in 1953, his body was placed in the mausoleum next to Lenin's. In 1961, as Nikita...
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Kakunyo
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism
...and the third caretaker of Shinran's mausoleum. At the time of his accession to the...husband, who had donated the land for the mausoleum. Before his death, the imperial court...for the position. At this time, the mausoleum itself had begun to take on more importance...
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