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Early bird
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A stubby houseboat bobbed gently on the icy Potomac River near Washington, D.C., one early December day in 1903. Atop the boat, perched on a wooden track, sat what looked like a giant dragonfly. Called the Great Aerodrome, it was ready to become the first powered aircraft to fly.
From a nearby boat, a 69-year-old gentleman with a neat white beard nervously watched. Samuel Pierpont Langley knew that his own reputation would fly-or crash-with his invention.
In 1903, aviation was still in its infancy. Many experimenters, both amateurs and scientists, were trying to find the key to powered ...
 "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)
; ...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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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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Mausoleum construction begins
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...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)
; ...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
; ...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)
; ...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. You...
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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)
; ...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
; ...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
; ...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
; ...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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 "Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)")
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Interview: Susan Olsen discusses a mausoleum for sale at Woodlawn Cemetary in the Bronx for $5 million, and also, some of the famous people buried there
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
; ...it very common that mausoleums are vacated, that...has a long history of mausoleums being exchanged from...C. Penney is in a mausoleum that was owned by Mrs...whoever might buy this mausoleum that's for sale for...grand scale of the mausoleums, as well as the many...
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