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memorials  

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  • Studies of memorials for the dead reflect a wide range of interpretations. The Taj Majal, the pyramids of Giza, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the graveyards of Puritan New England, to name but a few, have been approached from architectural, archaeological, aesthetic, and genealogical perspectives. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Memorials]

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