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  • His final resting place, the Burns Mausoleum, is also in Dumfries at St. Michaels Kirk.

    robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • Halicarnassus: Now Bodrum on the southwestern coast of Turkey, it was an important Greek city of Caria holding the celebrated tomb known as the Mausoleum.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Halicarnassus: Now Bodrum on the southwestern coast of Turkey, it was an important Greek city of Caria holding the celebrated tomb known as the Mausoleum.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Halicarnassus: Now Bodrum on the southwestern coast of Turkey, it was an important Greek city of Caria holding the celebrated tomb known as the Mausoleum.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • The 79-year-old actress was interred within the Great Mausoleum, which is also the final resting place of other Hollywood legends like Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Walt Disney and good friend Michael Jackson.

    Elizabeth Taylor Laid to Rest in Small, Family-Only Ceremony 2011

  • He was interred in the Portland Memorial Funeral Home and Mausoleum, which is like a city of the dead.

    The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011

  • He was interred in the Portland Memorial Funeral Home and Mausoleum, which is like a city of the dead.

    The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011

  • Behind the cathedral of San Vitale lies the so-called Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, a tiny cruciform chapel of soft pink brick famous for its breathtaking interior wall mosaics and domed indigo ceilings spangled with glittering stars, described by one poet as a “blue night sparkled with gold.”

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • The church is usually locked, but the surrounding churchyard is well worth exploring, notably for the Soane Mausoleum, which is said to have inspired Giles Gilbert Scott's classic K2 design for the GPO's telephone boxes.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • In the opposite quarter the Aurelian Gate was commanded by the mighty tomb-fortress then known as the Mausoleum of Hadrian, and now, in its dismantled and degraded state, as the Castle of Sant'Angelo.

    Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872

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