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6 Feet Deep

Killah Priest and Shabazz the Disciple made their first released appearances on "Graveyard Chamber" and the single "Diary of a Madman".

Abbotstown

The Barons HolmPatrick of Abbotstown were associated with Castleknock until quite recently and are buried in the graveyard at St. Brigid's Church (Anglican) in Castleknock however the current baron the Hon.

Alta, Norway

Their bodies were buried in graves just outside the Kåfjord Church graveyard in the village of Kåfjord in Alta, but their heads were sent on to the Anatomisk Institute at the Kong Medical Frederiks University in Oslo, where they were kept for more than a century as part of the university's skull collections.

Altab Ali Park

This graveyard is the final resting place of 'Sir' Jeffrey Dunstan, Mayor of Garratt (died 1796 - see Hone's Everyday Book 1827, p. 859).

Anne Theresa Bickerton Lyons

Anne (or Annie as she was more commonly known), Baroness von Würtzburg died June 11, 1894 in Bamberg, Bavaria and was buried in the village graveyard in Mitwitz, Bavaria.

Ashby, Massachusetts

Prince Estabrook, enslaved American patriot who fought and was wounded at the battle of Lexington is buried in the graveyard behind the Unitarian-Universalist church.

Bernard van Dieren

He died on 24 April 1936 in London, and is buried on the edge of the graveyard of St Laurence's Church, West Wycombe.

Carcanet Press

It now resides in Cross Street, between where Mrs Gaskell's husband's Unitarian Cross Street Chapel used to stand, and the little graveyard of St Ann's Church where Thomas de Quincey's forebears are buried, and in whose font Thomas de Quincey was himself christened.

Catherine Walters

Catherine Walters died of a cerebral haemorrhage at her home at 15 South Street, Mayfair, and was buried in the graveyard of the Franciscan Monastery in Crawley, West Sussex.

Christ Church, Sandown

The graveyard contains a memorial to the wreck of HMS Eurydice which featured in a Gerard Manley Hopkins poem of the same name.

Cockneys vs Zombies

In a building site in the East End of London, two construction workers discover a 17th-century graveyard ordered sealed by Charles II and are bitten by zombies, setting off a zombie outbreak in the area.

David N. Donihue

During these years, Donihue began to work graveyard shifts at a local college radio station, KGRG-FM, as an overnight DJ.

Dundry

The neighbouring village of Chew Magna has in its graveyard an early 19th-century limestone round-topped stone which bears the inscription to William Fowler "shot by an Highwayman on Dundry Hill 14 June 1814 aged 32 years".

Dupa Biskupa

In Polish adult animated comedy series Włatcy móch two recurring characters Marcel and The colonel (two zombies living on local graveyard) were seen playing dupa biskupa on a tombstone.

Elephant's Graveyard

Elephant's Graveyard is a special collection of B-sides and rarities from singer-songwriter Ed Harcourt.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Her ashes were buried in the graveyard of St Munn's Parish Church in Kilmun, Scotland, and obituaries honoring her appeared in publications such as The Lancet and The British Medical Journal.

Elizabeth Claypole

After the Restoration, Firth states in the Dictionary of National Biography that her body was exhumed, along with about twenty others, and placed into a pit in a graveyard near the back door of the prebendary's lodgings.

Flies graveyard

Flies graveyard or flies cemetery are nicknames used in various parts of the United Kingdom for sweet pastries filled with currants or raisins, which are the "flies" in the "graveyard" or "cemetery".

Fly Over States

It even shows different scenes that refer to the lyrics including the Badlands and a woman from Amarillo. At the end of the video, the camera looks up into the night sky after one last look at the graveyard.

Fresh Bones

Sump pumps had to be used on the graveyard of the episode's ending as it was shot during a particularly rainy January.

Frue Plads

In 1644, Simon Paulli took the initiative of converting one of the university's buildings overlooking Church of Our Lady's graveyard into an anatomical theatre, Domus Anatomica, although Paulli did not hold his first public lecture until3 March 1645.

Gadoufaoua

Gadoufaoua (Touareg for “the place where camels fear to go”) is a site in the Tenere desert of Niger known for its extensive fossil graveyard, where remains of Sarcosuchus imperator, popularly known as SuperCroc, have been found (by Paul Sereno in 1997, for example), including vertebrae, limb bones, armor plates, jaws, and a nearly complete 6-foot (1.8 m) skull.

German submarine U-196

Oberleutnant Dr. Ing. Heinz Haake of U-196 is buried in a graveyard at Bogor, Java with members of the World War I German East Asia Squadron at Arca Domas, on the slopes of Mount Pangrango, Java.

Graveyard Disturbance

Graveyard Disturbance (aka A Night in a Cemetery and Una notte al cimitero) is a 1987 Italian horror made-for-TV movie directed by Lamberto Bava and written by Dardano Sacchetti.

Graveyard poets

Graveyard poets were also forerunners for the Romantic literary movement, due to the reflection on emotional states.

Gulberg, Islamabad

ISLAMABAD, March 01, 2011: The Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) and Gulberg Residencia Islamabad (GRI) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for sharing electricity, Sui gas, link road and graveyard facilities in their housing schemes.

Horace Darwin

He is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge with his wife, Lady Ida Darwin; his brother Sir Francis Darwin is interred in the same graveyard.

Imam Shamil

After completing his pilgrimage to Mecca, he died in Medina in 1871 while visiting the city, and was buried in the Jannatul Baqi, a historical graveyard in Medina where many prominent personalities from Islamic history are interred.

Inniskeen

Birthplace of Dr. Peter Kavanagh (1916 - 2006), brother of Patrick, writer, scholar and publisher, who collected, edited, and published the works of Patrick Kavanagh.He is buried in Inniskeen graveyard.

James Craik

Craik died in Alexandria in 1814; he is buried in the graveyard of the Old Presbyterian Meeting House in that city.

Jerry Cruncher

He accompanies Lucie and Miss Pross to church the night they run into Sydney Carton and later that night Cruncher tries to unsuccessfully "resurrect" Barsad's colleague and fellow spy Roger Cly in the graveyard.

José Travassos Valdez, 1st Count of Bonfim

A sixth son, Pedro de Alcântara Travassos Valdez (1827–1887), settled in the English village of Dalwood in Devon and is buried in the graveyard of St Peter's Church there, with an elaborate headstone summarizing his father's career.

Karl Fiehler

Amongst other things it was no longer allowed to wear Protestant vestments at a funeral in a Jewish-orthodox graveyard.

Mogila

It has been said that the name derives from the Ancient Macedonian "Mogila" which means graveyard, even though there has been nowhere recorded any such word by ancient lexicographers such as Hesychius of Alexandria, Amerias, Marsyas of Pella and Athenaeus who have saved around 200 ancient Macedonian words.

Observatory, Cape Town

There is also a shopping complex in St. Peter's square, which is located opposite Groote Schuur graveyard.

Saratoga Race Course

Saratoga Race Course has several nicknames: The Spa (for the nearby mineral springs), the House of Upsets, and the Graveyard of Champions. Famous race horse Man o' War suffered his only defeat in twenty-one starts while racing at Saratoga Race Course; Secretariat was defeated at Saratoga Race Course by Onion, after winning the Triple Crown; and Gallant Fox had been beaten by the 100-1 longshot Jim Dandy in the 1930 Travers Stakes.

Šerefudin's White Mosque

Traditionally, in Bosnian mosques, graveyards act as a buffer between mosque and other buildings, but in this case the graveyard is isolated.

Sinderby

From December 2002 a number of British Railways Mark 2 coaches were stored behind the station for a period of time unused, and this evolved into the famous "Sinderby train graveyard" until they were removed in 2009 before the widening of the A1 road.

Stanton upon Hine Heath

Another author, Barbara Comyns Carr(1907–1992), died in the village and is buried in the graveyard of the village church, St. Andrew's.

Tarrant Crawford

Two famous people are associated with the abbey: Queen Joan, the wife of Alexander II of Scotland and daughter of King John of England (Richard I's brother and successor), is buried in the graveyard (supposedly in a golden coffin), and Bishop Richard Poore, builder of Salisbury Cathedral, who was baptised in the abbey church and later (in 1237) buried in the abbey, which he founded.

The Political Graveyard

The Political Graveyard is a website and database that catalogues information on more than 224,000 American political figures and political families, along with other information.

Tony Cowards

After a career in sound and lighting he became involved in the Comedians Graveyard, a local London gig hosting the likes of Jimmy Carr and Tim Vine, he finally decided to try his hand at stand up and did his first comedy performance at the Manchester Dancehouse Theatre at the age of 30.

Touchen End

The graveyard attached to Holy Trinity remains in use under the parish of Bray and is notable for the grave of William Thomas Forshaw VC.

Tredunnock

The graveyard contains the tomb of Isabella Gill, wife of Rev John Philip Gill and only daughter of Sir John Franklin pioneer of the Northwest Passage.

United States Marine Corps birthday ball

In a more somber tradition, Samuel Nicholas's grave in the Arch Street Friends Meeting graveyard in Philadelphia is marked with a wreath at dawn by a group of Marines annually on 10 November to celebrate his role in the founding of the Corps.

Whispers in the Graveyard

Whispers in the Graveyard is a children's novel by Theresa Breslin, published by Methuen in 1994.

Wörth am Main

In Frankish times, beginning in the 6th century, Wörth was a centre of royal power and with Saint Martin’s Chapel, in today’s graveyard, it was a jumping-off point for Christian missionary work in the depths of the Odenwald.


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