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Cemeteries

LC control no.sh 85021756
LC classificationGT3320 Manners and customs
RA626 RA630 Public health
Topical headingCemeteries
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Variant(s)Burial grounds
Burying-grounds
Churchyards
Graves
Graveyards
Memorial gardens (Cemeteries)
Memorial parks (Cemeteries)
Memory gardens (Cemeteries)
Necropoleis
Necropoles
Necropoli
Necropolises
See alsoBurial
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Death care industry
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Scope noteHere are entered general works on cemeteries and burying-grounds. Works on tombs and mausoleums, mainly from the archaeological standpoint, are entered under Tombs. Works on funerary monuments and gravestones are entered under Sepulchral monuments.
Subject example tracingNotes under Sepulchral monuments; Tombs
Found inPanati, C. Panati's extraordinary endings, 1989: p. 21-35 (graveyard; garden cemetery; memorial park)
LC database, Jan. 16, 1996 (... Memorial Gardens; ... Memorial Park; ... Memory Gardens)
Web. 3 (necropolis (pl. necropolises or necropoles also necropoleis or necropoli): cemetery, esp. a large elaborate cemetery of an ancient city; an ancient or prehistoric burying place)