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"burial ground" Definitions
  1. a place where dead bodies are buried, especially an ancient place

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"It's the last great taboo," said Liz Rothschild, co-founder of Westmill Woodland Burial Ground, a natural burial ground in the south of England.
"We know that they were buried in this burial ground; what we don't know is whereabouts in the burial ground," said Mr. Court, who, nonetheless, described the prospects of success as good.
Is there a magic burial ground for DOA movie projects?
This land, a sacred / burial ground, a people we delete.
Her grave can be found at the Fair Hill Burial Ground.
A 22th century burial ground, found under central London's Charterhouse Square.
A 14th century burial ground, found under central London's Charterhouse Square.
Your house is built over a desecrated Native American burial ground?
"Everyone's been talking about downtown's African burial ground," Ms. Collier said.
What about the Native American burial ground and the colonial church?
Black Settlement Burial Ground, Route 111, Willow Grove, northeast of St. John.
The area is believed to be the oldest burial ground in Petra.
Decades of neglect have turned this once beautiful burial ground into woodland.
Historic sites like the African Burial Ground and Grant's Tomb are closed.
But if it does, it might just be as a digital burial ground.
The tribe also says the pipeline would go through a sacred burial ground.
And we're exploring a Viking burial ground that's believed to harbor a longship.
The burial ground was enlarged during a plague epidemic in the 14th century.
Spa Fields, a popular burial ground was "absolutely saturated with dead," by the 1830s.
Were these specimens of wood from somewhere sacred, like a church or burial ground?
There's been news lately of a burial ground holding up a development in Gowanus.
In one, construction workers, digging near an Indian burial ground, have uncovered a corpse.
The maximum-security prison relocated its burial ground in 843 and sold the land.
Members of the tribe argue the pipeline could displace burial ground and other sacred land.
Be wary of the Native burial ground, Freneau warns us, for life still moves there.
What is not mentioned is that the site is a historical African-American burial ground.
As men prepared the burial ground in daylight, relatives squatted around babies covered in cloth.
Tuesday: The African Burial Ground begins four days of discussions, film screenings, music and poetry.
The Texas Historical Commission recognized the burial ground as a "historic Texas cemetery" in July.
Mansudae's work includes National Heroes Acre, a burial ground just outside the Zimbabwean capital Harare.
Lisht is the burial ground for Itjtawy, the as yet undiscovered Middle Kingdom royal city.
A lifetime resident of Ludlow, Jud knows enough not to venture toward the burial ground often.
If you can believe it, the original book features even more trips to the burial ground.
Then, bowled over by the loss of his wife, he brings her to the burial ground.
So this country, with all its tumult and frustrations, was his home and chosen burial ground.
Around that time the municipality allocated some of its own land to a new burial ground.
A sacred Maori burial ground lies on the northern bank, and interference is tapu, or forbidden.
Even a burial ground was denied to the child because their right over it was disputed.
That indicates it's unlikely that a local population once used this site as a burial ground.
There's still the ominous, dead-raising burial ground in the woods that will upend those hopes.
But Native American tribes say it threatens the local water supply, sacred land and tribal burial ground.
Then, after Rachel and Gage return from Boston, Ellie kills Rachel and drags her to the burial ground.
Along the way, marchers would pass the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, the Stonewall Inn, and the African Burial Ground.
Congress has been the burial ground for some of Trump's biggest initiatives, including his failed repeal of Obamacare.
But he said officials in charge of the renovation had not done enough to recognize that burial ground.
He was visiting Green-Wood cemetery, the 478-acre burial ground in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.
The Newtonian waltz it shared with its target destination (and eventual burial ground) is a thing of beauty.
The Creeds, Louis and Rachel and their young children, Ellie and Gage, move to rustic Maine and find out their property includes a creepy burial ground for pets, and behind that, an even creepier burial ground where the loved ones interred "come back," as the Creeds's avuncular neighbor, Jud, puts it.
Negro Burial Ground, is a self-portrait of a shirtless Faustine in a white dress that matches her shoes.
In 2010, it was rediscovered in the Saqqara burial ground and archeologists began to explore the site once more.
Before the people of Ludlow ran amuck with its powers, the burial ground once belonged to the Micmac tribe.
But standing in an ancient burial ground that abuts Shehr-e-Khamoshan, a village elder offers a different view.
It's closest to a burial ground that Lakota call Turtle Island, which also happens to be ETP's construction site.
The African Burial Ground Monument is considered a sacred site for the country's African-American population, the Times reported.
Alternatively, Mr. Johnson said, the state can purchase the strip of his property that formed the old burial ground.
RIO DE JANEIRO — The relics were arranged in a sphinxlike configuration, as in some type of ancient burial ground.
Construction begins, and it's quickly discovered that the hotel will be sitting on top of an ancient burial ground.
Victims usually came from either what is now known as the African Burial Ground or an adjacent potter's field.
To get it to last, you had to kneel and tend to the burial ground, continuously firming your resolution.
A decade later, a colonial-era African burial ground halted plans for a 34-story federal building near City Hall.
Only then, you find the KFC wrapper, revealing that this "ancient burial ground" is just the leftovers of someone's lunch.
Possible stops include Murderer's Alley, the African Burial Ground and sites associated with historic moments, like the 1863 Draft Riots.
On Monday, February 10, construction crews blasted Monument Hill, a significant burial ground along the southernmost edge of the monument.
The 19th century burial ground was established by Richard Allen, a freed slave who founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
The tribe argued that the $3.8 billion pipeline would desecrate a sacred burial ground and also contaminate their water supply.
Taijun Yajima, the head Buddhist priest at Koukokuji temple to which Ruriden belongs, constructed the glitzy burial ground in 2006.
The monument marks a burial ground containing an estimated 15,000 skeletal remains of colonial African-Americans from New York City.
And long before that, "this spot in particular was always a burial ground for us, always sacred land," Leal said.
It was no different than in Lower Manhattan, she said, where an African burial ground was discovered in the 1990s.
The island served as a burial ground for Scottish kings, including Macbeth, as well as nobles from Ireland and Norway.
Kubrick (and his co-screenwriter, Diane Johnson) added the idea that The Overlook was built on a Native American burial ground.
As bulldozers tore into the fresh earth, clearing an enormous burial ground, barefoot men dripping with sweat scooped shovelfuls of dirt.
Deep in the forest behind Louis Creed's (Jason Clarke) new home in Ludlow, ME is an ancient burial ground with exceptional abilities.
Historians have long hoped to learn more about the Philistines, and the burial ground offers insight into this ancient and historic population.
The Angela Burdett-Coutts Memorial in the St Pancras Old Church burial ground in London was also upgraded to Grade II listing.
Or it's a gas stream pulsing from the ass of a mechanical bird flying a figure eight around the fucking burial ground.
In the early 20th century, because of road construction, the burial ground was graded, probably unearthing and destroying some of the remains.
An African-American burial ground recently unearthed in Texas reveals details about an ugly chapter in the history of the American South.
Why can't they be like the Confederate Section of Oakwood or Hollywood Cemetery, the immaculate burial ground of thousands of Confederate soldiers?
Ivanka Trump responds Police didn't release further details about when the vandalism happened at the cemetery, a burial ground since the late 1800s.
It means that the highway administration can't decide to protect a tattoo parlor but destroy a Native American burial ground across the road.
To honor the day, the Burial Ground is hosting a full day of programming, both inside the center and outside at the monument.
The burial ground covered a wedge-shaped chunk of the block, closer to First Avenue and the 126th Street side of the lot.
But last week, Hillsborough County school district officials announced that the burial ground had been found with help from ground-penetrating radar scans.
For decades, Mr. Vasquez and his family have lobbied local officials to recognize and devote resources to the study of the burial ground.
Follow them downward, and you see the tips of arrows, pointing toward a burial ground, or to a thick knot of invisible roots.
They have been lying in watery graves since Cambodia's newest hydroelectric dam flooded her village of Srekor, and with it, the nearby burial ground.
Four months after his death, his skeletal remains were found in a wooded area that served as an MS-13 burial ground, authorities said.
Soon after moving in, Ellie makes a strange discovery: a burial ground for generations of Ludlow pets, tucked in the forest behind the house.
In the woods behind their house, there's also a pet cemetery and a malevolent burial ground that can bring the dead back to life.
A mossy effigy of the author of "The Pilgrim's Progress" reclines on a magnificent limestone tomb in Bunhill Fields Burial Ground in central London.
Metacritic Score: 57/100The Creed family moves to rural Maine, where they discover a mysterious burial ground hidden in the woods behind their house.
The Victorian burial ground is visible in the Death Lab renderings, its overgrowth and old tombs untouched, the design hovering above the historic site.
Marx's is the first one to be monitored at Highgate, London's most-visited burial ground, in a city where video surveillance is almost everywhere.
Did you know that in 1991 a colonial burial ground for free and enslaved Africans was discovered 24 feet below Broadway in Lower Manhattan?
His skeletal remains were discovered on October 17, 0003, in a wooded area that served as a burial ground for MS-13 victims, Capers said.
Amid this burial ground of big names in American architecture, I was surprised to see a familiar glimmer of blue rising from the green grass.
The burial ground occupied the lot where the first church rose, on the riverfront at what is now First Avenue, between 126th and 127th Streets.
What is surprising, though, is how quickly the trope of a haunted Indian burial ground took root and spread throughout the rest of American culture.
Wendy S. Walters, searching for a historical connection to America, turns to the bodies archaeologists retrieved from an unmarked slave burial ground in Rhode Island.
The fact that Gilbert was a sex worker, and died next to the burial ground of so many others like her, is simply a coincidence.
Archaeologists are searching for his remains beneath Euston Station in London, where a burial ground is being excavated as part of the station's redevelopment, above.
While touring a burial ground might be a new activity for you, this place has been a destination for visitors since its founding in 1838.
Since the discovery of a burial ground at the site in the 1990s, people have gathered there every year for a memorial honoring the victims.
The church moved a few blocks away in the mid-19th century and sold the African burial ground to a judge who was a parishioner.
She touched on what it's like to face a barrage of interview requests when she's struggling to simply mow the grass on the burial ground.
The burial ground included sarcophagi made of limestone and clay, animal coffins, and papyrus with Demotic script, not the hieroglyphs found in earlier Egyptian tombs.
Opinion Richard Conniff, a contributing opinion writer, recently published an article in the Times on his wish to be buried in a natural burial ground.
Legends say the hill is either the site of a Native American burial ground or an epic battle of a Native American chief against a crocodile.
Ms. Hunt said she learned about the burial ground for the first 17 AIDS patients while perusing an obscure infrastructure report conducted by a sanitation consultant.
And Part III, "Process(Ion)," is a performance installation that includes a procession from the theater to the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan (April 14).
The burial ground is the final resting place for 7,860 American soldiers who died in the liberation of southern Italy and Rome in 1943 and 1944.
The African burial ground occupied about 15 percent of the 116,000-square-foot lot, and he said that its original boundaries would not be infringed on.
Aaron Asis has strung fuchsia parachute cord through the chapel at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery as part of a series of interventions at the burial ground.
Native American groups say the site was once part of an Ohlone settlement that included large mounds of seashells that may have also been a burial ground.
Nine Nights: African Burial Ground by Brooklyn-based Trinidadian artist Kearra Amaya Gopee demonstrates how AR can be used to make site-specific, if incorporeal, interactive art.
The African Burial Ground Monument in New York City was vandalized on Thursday with a racist message suggesting African-Americans should be killed, according to multiple reports.
Collectively, they have designated a hundred and fifty-five monuments, from the African Burial Ground, in New York City, to the Gates of the Arctic, in Alaska.
The historic area is home to around 30 original residences from the Colonial, Federal, and Greek Revival periods, and a burial ground that dates back to 1739. 
But Melinda Hunt, who has long supported opening up the island, said the site should continue to be a burial ground even while serving as a park.
New York State has 35 sites under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, including places like the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan and Niagara Falls.
But the plan would preserve the area once occupied by the African burial ground as a memorial, a reminder of history that has been too often overlooked.
The African Burial Ground Monument in Lower Manhattan, a treasured site for the nation's black community, was defaced with a racist slur on Thursday, the authorities said.
The church closed its own burial ground on Fulton Street, disinterring and moving the bodies, including some that had been laid to rest before the Revolutionary War.
But the Parks Department has no burial records for the Kingsbridge burial ground, and there is nothing to indicate that the half-acre was ever a cemetery.
Mr. Dembowski said the Kingsbridge burial ground was the final resting place of Samuel Berrian, a farmer who settled in the area in the mid-18th century.
"We agreed with the government on the location of a new burial ground," he said from Brussels, where he lives with the rest of the Tshisekedi family.
At this site, there were no grave goods to speak of, and the bodies were found in unusual positions, suggesting that it wasn't a typical burial ground.
He was buried at St. James's burial ground in 1814 but the headstone was removed in the 1840s, leaving the precise location of his grave a mystery.
Experts plan to remove tens of thousands of skeletons from the burial ground, where a rail station for a new high-speed rail line will be built.
And it buttresses an argument long made by the Harlem African Burial Ground Task Force that black people, free and enslaved, helped build Harlem from the very beginning.
Dr. Patricia A. Singletary, pastor of the Elmendorf Reformed Church at 171 East 121st Street, in their capacity as leaders of the Harlem African Burial Ground Task Force.
Cover image: Melton Roy, prays amid the newly buried graves of Easter Sunday bomb blast victims at Methodist burial ground in Negombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, April 23, 2019.
Chippewas occupied a military camp in Ontario, and later members of the Kettle and Stony Point tribes occupied an Ipperwash provincial park they said was a burial ground.
That said, it's possible Epstein designed the building as a future burial ground for his parents but never got around to having their remains shipped to the island.
We drove past the burial ground to the French-built section of the city, where the houses were shaded by large trees and the grounds were well manicured.
Another obscure historical site is the Newton Slave Burial Ground, on the edge of an industrial estate in the Christ Church Parish in the south of the island.
The other burial ground — the half-acre that belonged to the Van Cortlandts' predecessors — is surrounded by an iron-pipe fence, but there is no plaque commemorating it.
African Burial Ground National Monument preserves a small site, on Duane Street in Lower Manhattan, where 15,000 African people, mostly enslaved, some free, were buried during colonial times.
She stands outside of a bus depot in Harlem, which is the sight of the third known colonial era burial ground of free and enslaved African Americans in Manhattan.
Historians say the coffins were part of the First Baptist Church burial ground established in 1707 in the historic part of the city on what is now Arch Street.
From an abandoned subway station at City Hall to a colonial African burial ground lost for almost 300 years, we've rounded up the city's most unbelievable, best-kept secrets.
And in the last few decades, the most common cause for a house's haunting—a problem cited so frequently it's almost become a cliché—is the Indian burial ground.
That this part of the burial ground is now swarming with visitors; its grass having long been churned into mud by hundreds of daily visits to an obscure grave.
They say the planned pipeline, near but not on tribal land, runs through a sacred burial ground and could leak, polluting nearby rivers and poisoning the tribe's water source.
Parliamentarian Rajan Vichare of regional party Shiv Sena that controls the civic bodies of Mumbai and Thane said work on a new burial ground in Thane was nearing completion.
She stands outside of a bus depot in Harlem, which is the sight of the third known colonial era burial ground of free and enslaved African Americans in Manhattan.
But opponents of the project said the marchers had been provoked when the pipeline company dug through land that tribal members say is a sacred cultural and burial ground.
However, you may have a harder time finding a burial site, as early adopter Dennis White, who died last year, learned when he tried looking for a burial ground.
Discovered in 1991, the hallowed space is the "oldest and largest known excavated burial ground in North America for both free and enslaved Africans," according to the monument's website.
That's where I thought we were driving — to another genocide spot, another desecrated burial ground — when we suddenly stopped at the side of the road by a wooded hill.
Green-Wood, for instance, was opened back in 1838 as a place for picnics, carriage rides, and strolls away from the crowded city, as well as a burial ground.
Scientists have found debilitating injuries reminiscent of New York's African Burial Ground — including bone infections, healed breaks, bones distorted by heavy labor and muscles torn away from the skeleton.
The Green Burial Council advises that a natural burial ground should have both an endowment and legal restrictions to prevent it from ever being turned into a conventional cemetery.
The human remains and three coat buttons discovered in Lake George, N.Y., during the construction of a three-family home suggest the site was a burial ground for soldiers.
It's a burial ground for native Hawaiians' most revered ancestors, and believed to be a peak created by the gods as a place from which humans can ascend to heaven.
Stephen King's 1983 novel Pet Sematary is a particularly striking version of this narrative, in part because he describes in great detail the nature and function of the burial ground.
He was arrested after a clash in which the army killed roughly 350 of his followers at his compound and a nearby mosque and burial ground in northern Kaduna state.
From the opening "Exhumation" through the final "Burial Ground" and back, the album plays out like a series of cycles within a larger one that starts over on repeated listening.
According to the ministry, the entrance to the burial ground was discovered after the arrest of a gang trying to smuggle the artifacts out of the side of a hill.
The buttons, Dr. Starbuck said, hint at the likelihood the site may have been a burial ground for Revolutionary War solders who had been housed in crude smallpox hospitals nearby.
"He nearly killed me that week," Rogers says now, recounting the frenzied middle-of-the-night flights that kept the $4.5 billion West Side Railyards site from being Trump's burial ground.
"Section 60 will be a sea of families," Carruth says of the southeast portion that serves as burial ground for military personnel who were killed in the Global War on Terror.
By that accounting, the number of AIDS burials on Hart Island could reach into the thousands, making it perhaps the single largest burial ground in the country for people with AIDS.
Viking culture is becoming a big theme in Swedish tourism, and the Viking burial ground where the tomb is sited has been an attraction since it was discovered in the 1880s.
"The G.L.O. has long recognized the Alamo as a burial ground and will ensure that this history is told in the future museum," Karina Erickson, a spokeswoman for the office, said.
The soil of Northern France, pockmarked with war craters, is all one big burial ground for lost souls — the graveyards you see, 410 military cemeteries, and the graveyards you don't see.
School officials believe the caskets are part of Ridgewood Cemetery, a historic paupers' burial ground from the early 1940s that was owned by the city, according to the Florida Genealogical Society.
It also divulges more of the plot: A doctor (Jason Clarke) moves his family to a small town, and after his daughter dies, he reanimates her at a haunted burial ground.
Back in their new Maine farmhouse, Rachel's husband, Louis (Jason Clarke), has brought their dead daughter, Ellie (Jete Laurence), back to life using the powers of an ancient indigenous peoples burial ground.
Dr. Singletary, who reconsecrated the burial ground in September, has given the name Nana to the person whose skull was found — "the African term of respect for an elderly woman," she said.
Zakzaky has been held in detention since December 2015, when the army killed roughly 350 of his followers at his compound and a nearby mosque and burial ground in northern Kaduna state.
Zakzaky was arrested after a 2015 clash in which the army killed an estimated 350 of his followers at his compound and a nearby mosque and burial ground in northern Kaduna state.
Mr. Crawford is leaning toward a green burial at the Town Cemetery in Rhinebeck, N.Y., where a natural burial ground opened in 2014 on land that was once part of an estate.
As part of a rail upgrade, one of London's main stations is being redeveloped, prompting the excavation of a burial ground containing the remains of an estimated 245,13 Londoners, including Mr. Richmond.
At a funeral for a party stalwart at National Heroes Acre, a burial ground and national monument in Harare, the capital, Mr. Mugabe criticized Mr. Moyo for causing dissension in the party.
LONDON — The remains of a noted Royal Navy explorer who led the first known circumnavigation of Australia have been found by archaeologists excavating a burial ground where a railway station is planned.
The $3.8 billion project drew worldwide attention after the Standing Rock Sioux tribe said the pipeline would desecrate a sacred burial ground and that any oil leak would poison the tribe's water supply.
Omaha's Hummel Park is reportedly the site of a Native American burial ground, and its eerily bowed trees are said to be weighed down by the souls of the African-Americans lynched there.
In their place lie some well-to-do shops and residences, the inhabitants of which presumably have yet to witness the cautionary tales of former-burial-ground living (see The Shining and Poltergeist).
The piece leads users on an introspective walk around the East 126th St. Bus Depot, which was actually a segregated burial ground for people of African descent during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In the 20th century, starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt, American presidents began to design their own legacies, with presidential libraries that often served as their burial ground.
At Hartsdale Pet Cemetery in Westchester County, a pet burial ground dating to the 19th century, about five to seven people are buried each year, said Edward C. Martin Jr., the cemetery's director.
Other than the sign, visitors to the burial ground will see only an open field, appropriately bordered by sugar cane, inviting them to imagine the lives of people that ended at that site.
When the Micmac tribe left the area, they carved warning signs in the form of spirals on trees that led to the burial ground — warning signs that Jud and Louis ignored, to drastic ramifications.
But when I arrived, Qari Dalal, a man I was working with, told me and a group of six other Muslim lads that we needed to help them complete work on a burial ground.
They include the African Burial Ground and Castle Clinton in Lower Manhattan, the General Grant National Memorial in Morningside Heights and the Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village, designated a national monument this year.
The site was previously designated a critical environmental area for its ecological and cultural resources, including habitat for bog turtles and the endangered Indiana bat, and a burial ground for the Ramapough Lenape nation.
The program begins with performances of two monologues from "Unheard Voices," a theatrical work from the American Slavery Project that imagines the lives of those interred in the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan.
In the nearby Sandy Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, broken headstones, some more than a century old, floated across the burial ground when the nearby Lumber River and its tributaries crested, historically, during Matthew's torrential rains.
Although experts are fairly certain that the massive upright stones that constitute Stonehenge took about 1,500 years to construct and that it probably once served as a burial ground, many mysteries about it still abound.
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Germany, analyzed DNA extracted from 20133 skeletons found in the mass burial pit, as well as 20 skeletons from other parts of the burial ground to compare.
Satcher's insight channelled the voices of those unknown Africans buried in the African Burial Ground and at Chapman Clearing who endured suffering so that future generations would learn about the proud heritage that they inherit.
Ngati Awa, the local tribe, believes the spirits of the deceased travel from the burial ground to a large rock at the river mouth, where they shed their final tears before departing for the afterlife.
The graveyards of enslaved people are paved or sodded over (at my family's former plantation the slave burial ground is now a Christmas tree farm), while the graveyards of our white ancestors are carefully tended.
"It puts a little thrill in you when you're walking around at night to see the spooky mausoleums and the headstones," said Bottum as he toured the ornate burial ground in New York's Bronx borough.
US border authorities are blowing up a Native American burial ground in Arizona to make way for the construction of President Donald Trump's border wall between the US and Mexico, The Intercept and CBS News reported.
His father-in-law, Mwalim Rama, told those gathered at the steamy burial ground that young people should not be put off joining the military because of attacks like the one in which Zahoro was killed.
When his daughter's cat is hit by a car on the nearby highway, his new neighbor Jud Crandall takes him to a Micmac burial ground that has the power to bring the dead back to life.
The interior lights will cast a glow through the mausoleum stained glass, some of it designed by Tiffany & Co., and provide an atmospheric setting for tours on the cultural and social history of the burial ground.
There are currently more than 125 designated national monuments, encompassing everything from a coral reef in the Caribbean to an African burial ground in New York State to a barrier island off the coast of Alaska.
The case closely echoes the removal of another terra-cotta wine vessel, the Euphronios Krater, from the museum in 22006 after evidence surfaced that it had been illegally excavated from an ancient burial ground in Italy.
In his next novel, "High Plains Tango" (2005), Mr. Waller passed the generational baton to Kincaid's son, a master carpenter who battles to stop development on the site of an Indian burial ground in South Dakota.
He and a others also claim that the plan does not adequately protect an adjacent burial ground, an argument that at one point led to his arrest, along with another resident, for trespassing on the site.
"The scientific study of human remains from St James burial ground will better our understanding of life and death in London's 18th and 19th centuries, shedding light on health and disease, social status and lifestyle," HS2 said.
The $3.8 billion project drew environmental protesters from around the world after the Standing Rock Sioux tribe said the pipeline would desecrate a sacred burial ground and that any oil leak would poison the tribe's water supply.
In this program at the society's DiMenna Children's History Museum, the American Slavery Project has focused on the many anonymous slaves, indentured servants and free black New Yorkers interred in the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan.
Before relocating to East Elmhurst, the church — now known as St. Mark, the one overseen by Ms. Detherage in Jackson Heights — requested to transport all the bodies from the burial ground to Mount Olivet Cemetery in Maspeth.
The Orlandi family later received an anonymous letter saying Emanuela could be buried in the Teutonic Cemetery, a small burial ground in the Vatican used over the centuries mainly for Church figures of German or Austrian origin.
It's also easy to disparage the one-with-the-earth sentimentality in which the natural burial ground movement tends to cloak itself: "Our bodies do not belong to us, they belong to nature," one such cemetery admonishes.
The site, which was described as a family burial chamber, was discovered a year ago hollowed out of rock at Tuna el-Gebel, an ancient burial ground not far from the city of Minya in central Egypt.
It's a pretty straightforward cautionary tale: Louis Creed (Dale Midkiff) learns the ancient burial ground behind his home can bring animals back from the dead, then makes a terrible choice when his son, Gage (Miko Hughes), is killed.
Native Hawaiians who oppose the project have said the proposed site for the new telescope on the Big Island is considered a spiritual temple and also is a burial ground, adding the project could harm those sacred lands.
Starring Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, and John Lithgow, the film follows a family who, upon moving to rural Maine, discovers their new home is located near a mysterious burial ground that sets off a chain of horrific events.
On a wintry morning last month, a yellow taxi carrying several MoMA curators passed through the archway of Cypress Hills Cemetery, a two-hundred-and-twenty-five-acre burial ground situated partly in Brooklyn and partly in Queens.
But a recent scan of the soil beneath the grass, where residents picnic and play with their dogs, showed that the number of graves in the Old Southampton Burial Ground on Long Island was actually closer to 274,21729.
Geneticists at Howard University realized that traditional research methods were falling short in identifying remains in the African burial ground, which dated to the 17th and 18th centuries, when African descendants were still enslaved in New York City.
The burial ground had initially been chosen as Elvis' final resting place (He was ultimately moved to the Graceland grounds several months later following a plot to steal his body), and Murray positioned himself to take in the proceedings.
Homebound at the US ambassador's residence after foul weather forced the cancellation of a trip to an American burial ground, the President was invisible as his European counterparts memorialized the World War I slaughter across the former Western Front.
The previous week, I had been in lower Manhattan where 22019 years ago, the black community of New York City insisted that the bones of 15,000 17th century Africans be properly respected with the African Burial Ground National Monument.
In Queens, N.Y., a church congregation is seeking to reinter the remains of a 19th-century woman who was unearthed in 2011 by a developer digging in what turned out to be a burial ground founded by enslaved Americans.
Mr. Czarka, who helped Mr. Panaritis found the Hunts Point Slave Burial Ground project and website, said some children suggested building an amphitheater or a stage at the site so that programs can be carried out in the park.
They include an indigenous burial ground in Kansas City, a church in San Jose that was a hub for the Mexican American civil rights movement, and women's and civil rights activist Pauli Murray's family home in Durham, North Carolina.
Hunts Point Slave Burial Ground Community members and teachers from P.S. 48 in the Bronx are trying to place a monument at a site where it's believed several African-American slaves from the 18th and 19th centuries lie buried.
In September, residents of an apartment complex in Tampa were forced to move after learning they had been living at the site of Zion Cemetery -- likely the first African American burial ground in the city, CNN affiliate WFTS reported.
We were heading toward the African Burial Ground National Monument on Duane Street, and as we approached, now in darkness, a song began to play; the pulse that had started so many blocks ago could now be clearly heard.
Water damage from bad storms in October 2015, inadequate drainage at the cemetery, and the heavy foot traffic have taken their toll on the burial ground, where van Gogh's brother Theo, who died shortly after him, is also interred.
Ibrahim Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), has been held in detention since December 2015, when the army killed roughly 350 of his followers at his compound and a nearby mosque and burial ground in northern Kaduna state.
The African burial ground was simply plowed under and pushed aside, supplanted by a pleasure and amusement ground known as Sulzer's Harlem River Park and Casino, then by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan movie studio, and then by the bus depot.
Luján said that when he was selling other members of Congress on the House bill, he would ask them to imagine what it would be like if their childhood church or their family burial ground was scheduled to be uprooted.
As a result of the recycling, which began in 1933, Hart Island is now the largest natural burial ground in the United States and offers a sustainable and ecological solution for burying unclaimed bodies, as required in New York state.
But if he can't win in such a brawny blue-collar state, Michigan could prove the burial ground for his dream of a "multigenerational, multiracial working-class coalition" that would transform the Democratic Party and propel him to its nomination.
It is still a burial ground for roughly 1,100 unclaimed bodies per year that arrive by ferry for burial in bare wooden coffins and are stacked three high in rows of six, in trenches as long as a football field.
If you have time for only one visit, however, make it the African Burial Ground, a monument and visitor center commemorating the 15,000 free and enslaved Africans who are still buried under the four blocks from Broadway to Foley Square.
Officials from Florida's Hillsborough County Public Schools hired a team of geophysical technicians to scan two areas of interest at the campus after cemetery researcher Ray Reed notified officials of a possible burial ground on-site, the Tampa Bay Times reported.
Based on Stephen King's 1983 horror novel, Pet Sematary is the harrowing tale of a doctor (Jason Clarke) and his wife (Amy Seimetz) who move from Boston to rural Maine and discover a burial ground in the woods behind their house.
"They are cleaning the highway — the president has commitments to businesspeople ... But here, since the people have nothing to offer him, he leaves this part as a burial ground," said one of the sons, William Chavez, a 29-year-old accounting student.
When Ellie's cat was hit by a truck earlier on in the story, Louis' neighbor, Jud (John Lithgow) made the mistake of showing Louis a far-off indigenous peoples burial ground with the magical ability to bring people back from the dead.
Flinders' coffin was discovered among 23,000 other human remains in St James's burial ground during digging ahead of the construction of the Euston station terminal for the High Speed 2 (HS2) network, which will link the capital to Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds.
Having led tours in the cemetery's 478 acres since 2011, I'm looking forward to exploring the art afterlives of the Victorian burial ground, from Jean Michel-Basquiat to lesser-knowns like Violet Oakley, the first woman to get a public mural commission.
It would be "the site of Trump's mausoleum and the burial ground of Christie's political aspirations," in the words of Julie Roginsky, a Democratic strategist close to two former Christie administration officials charged in the lane-closing case, Bill Baroni and David Wildstein.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, Chicano Park in San Diego, a Native American burial ground in Kansas and the site of the 1970 shootings at Kent State University are among 24 newly designated National Historic Landmarks.
U.S. military officials are seeking to curtail the number of individuals eligible for burial at Arlington National Cemetery in Northern Virginia, saying the push is part of an effort to keep the site open as an active burial ground for another 150 years.
The 19th-century Brooklyn burial ground predates the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park, and was where Beaux Arts and Gilded Age sculptors exhibited some of their most moving work, and New Yorkers escaped the crowded city for a stroll among the tombs.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump said that he plans to visit US troops in war zones, a remark that comes after he received widespread criticism for not visiting an American burial ground outside Paris, France, earlier this month and Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day.
Once there, in the dark of night, Jud seems possessed, and offers to take Louis and Church's body past the deadfall of piled logs at the edge of the pet cemetery, through a swamp to a burial ground where dead things that are buried return.
"Tuam is not just a burial ground, it is a social and cultural sepulcher ... We did not just hide away the dead bodies of tiny human beings, we dug deep and deeper still to bury our compassion, our mercy and our humanity itself," he said.
Discovered in 1991 during construction of an office building, the six-acre burial ground is estimated to contain 15,000 intact skeletal remains of New York City's colonial African-American community, who were not allowed at the time to be interred in traditional church cemeteries.
"Far below the present surface, mingled with the remains of the servile sons of Africa whose burial ground it also was, lies the dust of those brave boys who found death easier than flight, and gave their lives to save their countrymen," Field wrote.
As they view the site in a golf buggy, the woman who works at the burial ground tells her that people, when viewing their prospective plots, tend to lie on the ground and look up at the sky, to take in their burial view.
Officials believe other notables are in the burial ground, including Bill Richmond, a slave born in New York who as a free Londoner gained prominence as a boxer, and James Christie, a naval officer who in 1766 founded the auction house that bears his name.
One plaque marked the site of the first meal and slave market at the corner of Wall and Water Streets, another described what was then the very recent discovery of a "Negro Burial Ground" at the construction site for a new federal office building.

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