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Unearthed during a pre-construction dig for a solar energy plant, the burial ground lies on a 52-acre plot of land north of Rome.
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Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
The private Marquez family cemetery, in Santa Monica Canyon, is the last scrap of land surviving as a burial ground from its Rancho Boca land grant days of more than 180 years ago.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
As morning light crept over the southern region of Khan Younis, Gazans who had been sheltering nearby from an intense overnight attack and area residents were visibly distressed at the sight of the old Muslim burial ground.
—Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2024
While installing a water line last week, a Toronto construction crew came across human remains from a 700-year-old Indigenous burial ground.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
Bloodlines fleshes out the backstory of the character of Jud Crandall, whose early experience with a haunted burial ground was briefly related in King’s book, but hasn’t previously been depicted in detail onscreen.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
After the ceremony, my relatives hiked down the hill because, in Buddhist practice, it is considered disrespectful to witness an ancestor’s burial ground being disturbed.
—Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
The researchers looked at strontium isotope concentrations in teeth recovered from the Charleston burial ground as well as other African burial grounds in Rio de Janeiro; Campeche, Mexico; and Philipsburg, Sint Maarten.
—Maddie Bender, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
Nearly 120 years since the last known burial, the expansion project highlights the old cemetery as modernity brushes against the quiet, wooded, and primarily forgotten burial ground of more than 4,700 people.
—al, 2 Aug. 2023
Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
The private Marquez family cemetery, in Santa Monica Canyon, is the last scrap of land surviving as a burial ground from its Rancho Boca land grant days of more than 180 years ago.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
As morning light crept over the southern region of Khan Younis, Gazans who had been sheltering nearby from an intense overnight attack and area residents were visibly distressed at the sight of the old Muslim burial ground.
—Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2024
While installing a water line last week, a Toronto construction crew came across human remains from a 700-year-old Indigenous burial ground.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
Bloodlines fleshes out the backstory of the character of Jud Crandall, whose early experience with a haunted burial ground was briefly related in King’s book, but hasn’t previously been depicted in detail onscreen.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
After the ceremony, my relatives hiked down the hill because, in Buddhist practice, it is considered disrespectful to witness an ancestor’s burial ground being disturbed.
—Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
The researchers looked at strontium isotope concentrations in teeth recovered from the Charleston burial ground as well as other African burial grounds in Rio de Janeiro; Campeche, Mexico; and Philipsburg, Sint Maarten.
—Maddie Bender, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
Nearly 120 years since the last known burial, the expansion project highlights the old cemetery as modernity brushes against the quiet, wooded, and primarily forgotten burial ground of more than 4,700 people.
—al, 2 Aug. 2023
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“Burial ground.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burial%20ground. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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