#Cemetery

Tucked away in an unassuming cemetery lies the grave of Georges Nagelmackers, the founder of the Compagnie des wagons-lits (and thus, of the Orient Express).

Both came from Cuttack, Odisha, and worked in a powerloom factory in Surat, according to the police.

A former nurse who calls herself the "crazy cemetery lady" found a new calling: caring for the dead by restoring cemetery headstones, some of which are centuries old. Evyn Moon has the story.

Madhubala’s sister Madhur Bhushan recalled how their father Ataullah Khan visited her grave for years, poured perfume into it and built a marble tomb. She said the tomb was dismantled after his death and they didn't even know if the grave survived.

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Historic Union Cemetery honored brave law enforcement, firefighters, emergency medical service workers, dispatchers, healthcare heroes, veterans and probation officers Oct. 22 at its First Responders Recognition Day.

The racket was uncovered in Karnataka's Raichur after residents caught suspects allegedly digging up a grave to pack human bones into plastic covers.

I'm involved in research on a demolished cemetery in Baltimore. We have been transcribing death certificates to understand the burial population.…

Not all the dead rest easy. These 13 American cemeteries have the ghost stories to prove it.

This funerary monument to the guillotined king and queen of France became a political lightning rod and a site of pilgrimage for French monarchists.

Thompson’s murder went unsolved for 24 years—until her ghost allegedly haunted two people.

A walk in the cemetery led to Cornell researchers discovering an underground colony of bees with an estimated population of 5.5 million—one of the largest ever recorded.

A casual walk through an Ithaca cemetery led to the discovery of a gigantic hidden bee population — roughly 5.5 million ground-nesting bees packed beneath the soil.…

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