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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: mausoleum

mausoleum stories: 6 news summaries
GOODNIGHT, SWEET PRINCE

 Georgia Mourns 
 Football Mascot 

Bulldog, 4, served less than 2 full seasons in shortest reign ever

Nov 20, 09 12:24 PM CST
(Newser) - The University of Georgia football team’s mascot, bulldog Uga VII, has died. He was 4 and had not yet served out two full seasons, the shortest reign in 54 years of Ugas at UGa. Uga was not only a mascot but a beloved pet to the Savannah family that... More »

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pets • obituary • mausoleum • University of Georgia • mascot • Georgia Bulldogs • bulldog • college football • Uga VII • Georgia mascot dead

 Jacko Crypt 
 Drives Up 
 Plot Prices 

New addition to the neighborhood sending Forest Lawn prices skywards

Sep 8, 09 4:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Jackson has sent property prices soaring for the graves surrounding his final resting place, a sales rep at Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale tells TMZ. The cemetery has hiked the price of plots near the late singer's tomb as much as $3,000 from the usual $7,000 since ... More »

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mausoleum • Michael Jackson • cemetery • celebrity death • Forest Lawn cemetery

Jackson's Body Will Head to Celeb-Stacked LA Mausoleum

Final funeral will be family, friends only

Aug 19, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Jackson will be entombed in a Los Angeles-area mausoleum that’s the final Neverland of many other celebrities, the New York Post reports. The Holly Terrace section of the Great Mausoleum is reputedly the most secure section of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. The same chamber hosts the... More »

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mausoleum • funeral • Michael Jackson • Clark Gable • burial site • Glendale • celebrity death • Forest Lawn cemetery

UPDATED

 At Least 13 Dead 
 in Iran Crackdown 


Jun 20, 09 10:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - A violent and chaotic day in Iran left dozens of protesters injured, with reports ranging from 13 to 19 deaths, reports the New York Times. The government's feared militia, the Basij, cracked down with water cannons, electric rounds, and live bullets against thousands of protesters in Tehran. The developments came... More »

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Iran • Tehran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • bomb • mausoleum • election • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi

RIP Che, but
Not in His
Tomb in Cuba

Guevara burial site not nearly as advertised, New Republic reports

Oct 31, 07 3:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thousands came to Che Guevara's Cuban mausoleum in July to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the revolutionary’s death—but they were paying respects at the wrong resting place. A French journalist claims that Fidel Castro’s government never actually found the Argentine’s body—as was triumphantly announced 10... More »

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Fidel Castro • Cuba • mausoleum • martyr • Che Guevara • fabrication

Taj Mahal
Needs a Facial

India considers mud pack to clean
yellowing monument

May 16, 07 6:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Taj Mahal doesn't have any problems that couldn't be cured by a day at the spa. Centuries of pollution have left the enormous mausoleum with a yellow tinge; to restore its marble to pristine white, India is considering applying a clay mask. More »

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pollution • India • Taj Mahal • mausoleum • clay mask

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