A columbarium is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns holding cremains of the dead
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San Bernardino alle Ossa, Milan
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Ghouls (and a few other things)
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The Graves Violated – Not Very Many Bodies Are Left In Greenlawn Cemetery (Indianapolis Journal, 1899)
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Andreas Vesalius (1514 – 1564) was a 16th-century anatomist, physician, and author who is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy
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The Holy Innocents’ Cemetery is a defunct cemetery in Paris that was used from the Middle Ages until the late 18th century
In 1780, the former Holy Innocents’ Cemetery in Paris was closed because of overuse. In 1786, the bodies were exhumed and the bones were moved to the