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reflecting the Quaker avoidance of personal vanity, the graveyard is not marked by so much as a single headstone
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Graham stopped eating food, went to the graveyard often, and tried to commit suicide several times.
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Seidl also recalled an impactful moment for him when the delegation had the opportunity to visit a graveyard in Poland.
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Since the tombstones — and sometimes even the contents of the graves — had been desecrated, damaged or removed, Mr. Izzo has made restoring both graveyards his life’s work.
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One Florida man has taken it upon himself to help restore a Tampa graveyard and its veterans' headstones.
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Which should be enough to relegate Fibre Channel to the technological graveyard.
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First Known Use of graveyard
1761
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playDefinition of graveyard for English Language Learners
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: a place where people are buried
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: a place where old things are left or thrown away
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