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The Lenin tomb is obviously adequate for double occupancy, Moscow is a crowded city, and the creed of Communism deplores waste.
Similarly in Illinois there is Lincoln country to be seen -- his tomb and other landmarks.
She died around 1603 and is buried in the O ' Malley family tomb on Clare Island.
* A monument is dedicated to his tomb in Lakeview Cemetery, Sarnia, Ontario
His tomb, according to a medieval Jewish tradition, is considered to be in a building not far from the Cave of the Patriarchs.
The Italian scholar Maggiani recently showed that on an Etruscan tomb dedicated to Racvi Satlnei in Bologna ( 5th century BC ) there is a writing that says: " aivastelmunsl
Pausanias also said that Alcmene's tomb is located near the Olympieum at Megara.
However, in Bernini's tomb, the vigorous upraised arm and posture of the pope is counterbalanced by an active drama below, wherein the figures of Charity and Justice are either distracted by putti or lost in contemplation, while skeletal Death actively writes the epitaph.
Algardi's tomb is much less dynamic.
The tomb is somberly monotone and lacks the polychromatic excitement that detracts from the elegiac mood of Urban VIII's tomb.
In July 2006, the tomb of the king ( which is located in the Santa Cruz Monastery in Coimbra ) was to be opened for scientific purposes by researchers from the University of Coimbra ( Portugal ), and the University of Granada ( Spain ).
His tomb is in the monastery of San Pedro in Huesca.
The tomb of Myrine is mentioned in the Iliad ; later interpretation made of her an Amazon: according to Diodorus, Queen Myrine led her Amazons to victory against Libya and much of Gorgon.
He points out that Shrine 261 is not strictly analogous to the Ark of the Covenant: it can only be said that the Anubis Shrine is " ark-like ", constructed of wood, gilded and gessoed, stored within a sacred tomb, " guarding " the treasury of the tomb ( and not the primary focus of that environment ), that it contains compartments within it that store and hold sacred objects, that it has a figure of Anubis on its lid, and that it was carried by two staves permanently inserted into rings at its base and borne by eight priests in the funerary procession to Tutankhamun's tomb.
The route taken is up to the arch and then around its side, out of respect for the tomb and its symbolism.
He is buried in tomb 122 in the New Vault of the Imperial Crypt in Vienna.
On 3 August 2007, Mexican archaeologists announced discovery of what is believed to be the tomb of Ahuizotl beneath a sculpture of Tlaltecuhtli near the Zócalo in Mexico City.
Anubis is depicted in funerary contexts where he is shown attending to the mummies of the deceased or sitting atop a tomb protecting it.

tomb and topped
Their final camp became their tomb ; a high cairn of snow was erected over it, topped by a roughly fashioned cross.
She is buried in the Henry VII Lady Chapel of the Abbey, in a black marble tomb topped with a bronze gilded effigy and canopy, between the graves of William and Mary and the tomb of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Photograph of an alabaster cosmetic jar topped with a lioness, representing Bast, a burial artifact from the tomb of Tutankhamun circa 1323 BC-Cairo Museum
Per Malagasy architectural norms, his tomb was topped with a trano masina (" sacred house ") symbolic of royalty.
His chest tomb, topped by an effigy in armour, is one of the few Scottish royal monuments to have survived from the Middle Ages.
Inspired by Persian architecture ; the tomb reaches a height of 47 m and is wide, and was the first Indian building to use the Persian double dome on a high neck drum, and measures 42. 5 m, and is topped by 6 m high brass finial ending in a crescent, common in Timurid tombs.
According to a local legend, Napoleon fired a mortar at the tomb, and removed the shape of a hand that topped the conical roof.
Around the tomb are placed wooden pillars which are topped by crude carvings, some of which represent spiritual guardians.

tomb and by
At the beginning of the Hippodrome I saw the Kaiser's Fountain, an ugly octagonal building with a glass dome, built in 1895 by the German Emperor, and on my left, directly across from it, the tomb of Sultan Ahmet, who constructed the Blue Mosque, more properly known by his name.
After his death, the king was buried in the church which he had built ; his original tomb has been lost, while his alleged remains are preserved in the shrine where he was reburied after being declared a saint ; his saintliness, however, was never very widely acknowledged outside the bishopric of Liège where he may still be venerated by tradition.
The Augustinian monastery at Salamanca contains the tomb of the Count and Countess de Monterey, another work by Algardi.
The sarcophagus and its contents had been removed by early plunderers of the tomb.
According to a version of the Ariadne legend noted by Plutarch, Theseus abandoned Ariadne at Amathousa, where she died giving birth to her child and was buried in a sacred tomb.
In 1922 in the Egyptian Valley of the Kings the tomb of Tutankhamun ( KV62 ) was opened by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon.
The Medicis oversaw the construction of his magnificent tomb by Donatello and Michelozzo in the Battistero di San Giovanni in Florence.
Maqbara Shaikh Husain, houses the tomb of Khwaja Husain Chishty Rehamatullah Alaih ( Shaikh Husain Ajmeri ) who was the Peer of Ajmer Sharif Dargah in Emperor Akbar's Time, He was the great grandson of Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chishty Rehmatullah Alaih, his tomb was built in 1637-1638 by Khwaja Alauddin Chishty and Sajjadanashin Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin
* c. 3500 BC: Senet is played in Predynastic Egypt as evidenced by its inclusion in burial sites ; also depicted in the tomb of Merknera.
On the tomb of the Athenians this epigram composed by Simonides was written:
Acts of formal recognition, such as the erection of an altar over the saint's tomb or transferring the saint's relics to a church, were preceded by formal inquiries into the sanctity of the person's life and the miracles attributed to that person's intercession.
The tomb was virtually destroyed in 1812 by a man who stole most of the stones to build a house nearby, but it was partly reconstructed in 1890.
According to William Burt, in his notes to Dartmoor, a Descriptive Poem by N. T. Carrington ( 1826 ), the original tomb consisted of a pedestal of three steps, the lowest of which was built of four stones each six feet long and twelve inches square.
Cavalry tactics in China were enhanced by the invention of the saddle-attached stirrup by at least the 4th century, as the oldest reliable depiction of a rider with paired stirrups was found in a Jin Dynasty tomb of the year 322 AD.

tomb and dome
De La Fosse's allegories under the dome over the tomb of Napoleon
A beehive tomb, also known as a tholos tomb ( plural tholoi ) ( Greek: θόλος τάφοι, θόλοι τάφοι, " domed tombs "), is a burial structure characterized by its false dome created by the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often, stones.
Brick and stone vaults used in tomb construction have survived, and the corbeled dome was used, rarely, in tombs and temples.
A model of a tomb found with a shallow true dome from the late Han Dynasty ( 206 BC – 220 AD ) can be seen at the Guangzhou Museum ( Canton ).
The Edicule of the Holy Sepulchre ( The traditional location of Jesus ' tomb ) with the dome of the rotunda visible above.
During the reign of the Mamluk Sultan Al Mansur Qalawun, a dome was erected above the tomb of Muhammad and an ablution fountain was built outside of Bab al-Salam ( Door of Peace ).
He added a new mihrab ( al-Ahnaf ) next to Muhammad's mihrab ( al-Shafi ' iyyah ) and placed a new dome covered in lead sheets and painted green above Muhammad's house and tomb.
Ar-Rawdah, the green dome over the center of the mosque, where the tomb of Muhammad is located was constructed in 1817 during the reign of Mahmud II and painted green in 1839.
When bin Saud took Medina in 1805, his followers, adherents to Wahhabism, destroyed nearly every tomb dome in Medina in order to prevent their veneration, and the Green Dome is said to have narrowly escaped the same fate.
It is the green dome over the center of the mosque, where the tomb of Muhammad is located.
The central room of the building, which has his tomb, has now lost its dome, though many rooms of the seminary or college are intact, and since been restored.
The tomb is covered by twelve stones, and above it is a dome vaulted.
" Mujir al-Din al -' Ulaymi ( 1495 ), the Jerusalemite qadi and Arab historian, writes under the heading of Qoubbeh Râhîl (" Dome of Rachel ") that Rachel's tomb lies under this dome on the road between Bethlehem and Bayt Jala and that the edifice is turned towards the Sakhrah ( the rock inside the Dome of the Rock ) and widely visited by pilgrims.
Rabbi Moses Surait of Prague ( 1650 ) described a high dome on the top of the tomb, an opening on one side, and a big courtyard surrounded by bricks.
In 1838 the tomb was described as " merely an ordinary Muslim Wely, or tomb of a holy person ; a small square building of stone with a dome, and within it a tomb in the ordinary Muhammedan form ; the whole plastered over with mortar.
Geometric courtyard surrounding the tomb showing the Iwan, and dome.
The tomb built of rubble masonry and red sandstone, uses white marble as a cladding material and also for the flooring, lattice screens ( jaalis ), door frames, eaves ( chhajja ) and for the main dome.
In the middle of the gardens is the Bara Gumbad (" Big Dome "), it consists of a large rubble-construct dome, it is not a tomb but a gateway to an attached a three domed masjid ( mosque ), both built in 1494 during the reign of Sikander Lodi, there is also a residence surrounding a central courtyard, where the remains of a water tank can be seen.
His tomb is a structure with a blue turquoise conical dome, at Qazvin.

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