headstone
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There is room on the headstone for only three of the seven names.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
A few pens have been left on the headstone, which has been replaced at least once; generations of fans have attempted to obliterate “Hughes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
Other notable artifacts connected to St. Eustatius are a headstone from its Jewish cemetery, commemorating a merchant’s wife, and a Hanukkah lamp from Amsterdam that was eventually carried to St. Thomas by Jewish exiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Not included: “A headstone or any other permanent memorial,” the site adds.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 18, 2025
Deeper and deeper amongst the graves he went, and every time he reached a new headstone he felt a little lurch of apprehension and anticipation.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Fewer burials mean less demand for plots and headstones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
The “expat graveyard” is filled with headstones of people who boldly declared, “We love it here. We’re never leaving.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026
They often have an image of the soldier in uniform engraved on the headstones.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026
Shortly after, he said, he noticed the headstones missing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2025
Along with the toll of human lives, entire towns and villages had been wiped off the map, to be remembered, if at all, by means of small stone monuments that resemble graveyard headstones.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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