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the historic cemetery's many tombstones marking the graves of children are telling reminders of the harshness of pioneer life
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Although businesses such as the rump of British Steel remain, the area resembles an industrial graveyard with a defunct steelworks as a hulking metal tombstone.
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There are no rows of tombstones, no soaring monuments, and no cut flowers.
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In late February, vandals toppled more than 500 tombstones at a Jewish cemetery in the City of Brotherly Love.
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These are the tombstones the nation must rally around.
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Padilla persuaded Shermantine, on death row in San Quentin, to give him maps to more buried corpses in exchange for the promise of about $33,000 – money Shermantine wanted for candy, a typewriter and tombstones for his parents.
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Seven young women filed into a packed room at the Hope CommUnity Center, wearing black mantillas over their heads and carrying cardboard tombstones.
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To create cemeteries full of trees rather than tombstones, reduce waste, and create new life out of death.
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But this year, there might not be enough for the 400,000 tombstones of veterans.
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First Known Use of tombstone
1565
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