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Every summer that I can remember as a kid, Mom insisted Pop drive to visit the gravesites of both the Christman’s, in Lehigh County, and the Kohler’s, in Berks County. Mom also took us on walks to the ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- The dead speak out with pride, regret, grief and even humor in the stone and metal monuments at Lakewood Cemetery overlooking Lake Calhoun, home of more than 170,000 graves and ...

Abraham Lincoln’s is the most famous epitaph — “Now he belongs to the ages” — and notes writer Adam Gopnik, it’s “still perhaps the best.” However, Gopnik’s 2007 New Yorker article raises the ...

With the immortal words, “I told you I was ill”, carved onto his tombstone, he undoubtedly got the very last laugh. And now, comedian Spike Milligan’s famous epitaph has been named the Britain’s ...

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