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Recent Examples of columbariumMei and Shing casually dismiss Angie’s insistence that Pat wanted to have her ashes scattered at sea, instead heeding the advice of their fortuneteller, arranging for a traditional ritual and internment in a columbarium.—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024 In 2019, the group bought a columbarium with 96 niches to inter ashes for other kinds of service dogs.—Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2024 Her remains are stored in one of a series of ornate lockers in the columbarium of a Buddhist temple in Hsinchu, second from the bottom, just a few feet away from my uncle, her son.—Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024 Next to the chapel is a columbarium, a repository for the ashes of select members of the congregation.—Ted Koppel, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for columbarium
Where is Judy Garland buried? Following Garland’s funeral, her coffin was taken to Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, N.Y. and placed in a crypt while awaiting her more permanent mausoleum, per The New York Times.
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Nicole Briese,
People.com,
22 June 2025
In the Universal Monsters house’s storyline, visitors will see the mausoleum of monster hunter Van Helsing, the Mummy’s tombs, Castle Dracula and the lab home of Frankenstein’s monster and his bride.
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Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 June 2025
Tyce Porcher, Pole vault, King’s Academy junior: Fifth at 2A meet with 4.05m jump; set PR and school record in winning regional meet (4.20m) after returning from injury; also went to state in wrestling and placed in state weightlifting competition.
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Gary Curreri,
Sun Sentinel,
20 June 2025
Fire crews found fire in the electric vault in the basement of the library, according to the Hartford Fire Department.
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Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
17 June 2025
What’s a place in L.A. that might be comparable to the catacombs?
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Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
10 June 2025
Created and written by George R.R. Martin and Hidetaka Miyazaki, the original video game is an open-world third-person game where gamers can explore six different areas set in the Lands Between and travel through dungeons, catacombs, and more.
Visitors walk among ancient walls and tombs, uncovering stories that span from Roman London to World War II.
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Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
Known both as a common crop mold and a lurking danger in ancient tombs, its spores have been linked to mysterious deaths — from King Tutankhamun’s 1920s excavation to a 1970s Polish royal tomb incident that apparently killed several archaeologists.
The surrounding historic cemetery is a place for quiet reflection.
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Erin Gifford,
Southern Living,
20 June 2025
His experience in the cemetery that day has now become inextricably intertwined with his own burgeoning sexuality, just as his and Wilder’s sweat became one in the shirt that led to this moment.
Across the landscape of northern Poland are dozens of cemeteries with early medieval burial mounds, known as Orzeszkowo-type barrows.
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Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2025
Ticket Information The crypt beneath the historic St Bride’s Church on Fleet Street contains Roman pavements, medieval foundations, and even plague burial sites.
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