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When Lamarck died he was buried in a pauper's grave (his bones were later dug up and scattered in the catacombs under Paris); Cuvier was given a large tomb in Père Lachaise cemetery.
A Conversation with Rebecca Stott about The Coral Thief
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She said to the monk, in her halting Italian, `I've come to see the catacombs.
THE GOLDEN LION
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-- The so-called catacombs of Paris were never catacombs in the ancient sense of the word, and were not devoted to purposes of sepulture until 1784.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
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the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs
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Catacumbas, whence the term catacomb, a word seemingly of uncertain origin (Northcote and Brownlow, I, 262-63).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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I can also vaguely recall occasionally going to a club called Catacombs, but since I was off my face on snakebite and black, my memories are dim and distant.
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Among the representations of fossors in the catacombs the one best known, through Wiseman's "Fabiola", is that of the fossor Diogenes, discovered by Boldetti.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Such operations also from time to time reveal the catacombs in which the bodies of Christians were buried.
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Megalithic temples that predate the Egyptian pyramids, Bronze Age archaeological sites, Phoenician inscriptions, and Roman catacombs all contribute to a sense of nationhood.
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Especially if the city is older than time, built on the slopes of an uneasily slumbering volcano, atop murmuring catacombs, and the eldritch ruins where men fear to tread loom over the unclimbed and unclimbable far side of the volcano, and strange musics or shrieks of nonhuman laughter ring across the ashy slopes when the moon is dark, or, in the case of Mars, moons.
MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
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The term catacomb was applied to these subterranean cemeteries at a much later period.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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He'd explore the catacomb level underneath the arena and end up sitting at the knees of fabled celebrities.
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The catacombs were a depressing place in a world of depressing places.
Into the Labyrinth
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Frankly, I was stunned when I saw myself like a kewpie doll from the catacombs.
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This was a beautiful part of the old city, with catacombs and twisted alleyways, a casbah of the eastern Mediterranean.
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There are a million secrets buried in the libraries and catacombs of The Vatican – hell, they stole the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran and only released what they wanted to … how that was allowed I’ll never understand, and how much they pirated away before the situation was rectified is probably a dead secret now.
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While burial in underground galleries carved out of soft rock was not restricted to Roman Christians alone, it is with them that the catacombs are most commonly associated.
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Christian paintings from over fifty western masters are brought together here to tell the story of western Christian belief, piety, and history from the catacombs through the twentieth century.
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In the night he was in another prison, and he knew it was the true prison, its catacombs ran underground everywhere.
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In the catacombs of the Capuchin crypt beneath Chiesa di Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome, the bones of 4000 monks are arranged in Baroque patterns on the ceilings.
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Although Dr Hawass suggests there is no mystery surrounding the "catacomb", Collins suspects that the caves extend beneath the Second Pyramid, where ancient tradition puts the legendary tomb of Tomb of Hermes, Egypt's legendary founder.
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With such simple means the earliest Christian artists evoked the light of the world, flickering in the surrounding darkness, casting a living, dancing shadow on the walls of a Roman tenement or catacomb.
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One part Tutankhamun, one part Marie Antoinette, the collection seemed to be extricated from the catacombs of ancient Rome with plenty of peasant blouses, full skirts, and of course, cleavage.
Nicole Berrie: Vivienne Westwood Spring/Summer 2011 - Monster's Ball
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The dungeon is more like a catacomb, linking a series of tableaux that expose the grisliest entrails of York's history.
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Other etchings are derived from ancient mythology, or obscure incidents such as the discovering of the bodies of S. Peter and S. Paul in the Roman catacombs.
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Hurrying down from the wall, he made his way through the ranks of defenders to the catacombs the lay beneath the fortress.
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In its layout the interior resembled black catacombs.
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Those that had fallen in battle were buried deep within the catacombs with their name, rank, and race carved into the stone above their urn holder.
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The catacombs, fronting in all directions, because the makers were guided by convenience, not by ceremonial rule, are hollowed in the soft new sandstone underlying the snowy gypsum; and most of the façades show one or more horizontal lines of natural bead-work, rolled pebbles disposed parallelly by the natural action of water.
The Land of Midian
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Collins is also unconvinced by Hawass's explanation of what he calls the "catacomb".
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Disused mineshafts in Johannesburg could be turned into catacomb-style cemeteries, in a bid by the City Parks agency to accommodate the increasing number of people dying from AIDS.
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My next dream travel destination is the Capuchin catacombs in Palermo.
Boing Boing: December 19, 2004 - December 25, 2004 Archives
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A week of tramping for miles underground and sleeping in limestone catacombs tunneled out by sulfuric acid is not everyone's idea of happy camping.
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It seemed like we were in the cellars or a catacomb of some sort.
My Fair Succubi
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The catacombs date back to the 1599 when the local priests mummified a holy monk for all to see.
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This was a beautiful part of the old city, with catacombs and twisted alleyways, a casbah of the eastern Mediterranean.
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They were inhumed below the floor of the cave; _inhumed_, and not lodged in catacombs.] [Footnote 34: Letter to Samuel M. Burnside, in Trans. and Coll.
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
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The letters are painted on the plates with red paint, and the inscription belongs to the primitive class of epigraphical memorials in the Catacomb of Priscilla, thus, dating from about the middle or second half of the second century.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Ms. Deeley isn't the bustiest chick that I've profiled in the Catacombs, but she is one tall & lovely drink of water for us desperately deprived fans of sexy British women.
"Gal" Friday! Cat Deeley
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In the catacombs of the Capuchin crypt beneath Chiesa di Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome, the bones of 4000 monks are arranged in Baroque patterns on the ceilings.
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I recommend a visit to one of the catacombs in Rome, or anywhere else there are Christian catacombs.
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I joined the throngs and filed through the labyrinthine chambers and catacombs, past storyboards of a hippopotamus hunt, fowling in the marshes, dwarfs making jewelry, scenes of fishing, gardening, and farming, an ancient catalogue of harmonic balance that reverses the telescope from today's hardships and irredentism.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II
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He believed that what he called our ‘modern technocracy ‘- the heir of Enlightenment rationalism which condemns humankind's religious dimension to the catacombs - ‘more than any other age tends to disembody man’.
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The catacombs were not hideouts during persecution; they were burial grounds and places of worship, and their location was not secret.
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`Like wandering through the catacombs of Rome, "as she had put it, `and never being able to find the door.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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The catacombs and fantastic burial monuments are located along the way from Casale Rotondo to Cecilia Metella's tomb.
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At least one underground temple catacomb has been associated with the cult of a Mother Goddess.
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The oldest fresco of a fossor, or rather of two fossors, dating from the latter half of the second century, is in one of the so-called Sacrament Chapel in the catacomb of St. Callistus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Frankly, I was stunned when I saw myself like a kewpie doll from the catacombs.
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I joined the throngs and filed through the labyrinthine chambers and catacombs, past storyboards of a hippopotamus hunt, fowling in the marshes, dwarfs making jewelry, scenes of fishing, gardening, and farming, an ancient catalogue of harmonic balance that reverses the telescope from today's hardships and irredentism.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II
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As at Assisi, in Italy, there are three superimposed churches, a symbol of the three states of religion; the crypt, called the catacombs, and suggestive of persecution; the fortified nave, a symbol of the body which prays, but is not afraid to fight; and the _chapelle supérieure_, the holy place of the saints of heaven, the Christian counsellors in whose care man has been confided.
The Automobilist Abroad
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Embarking on a nonstop, action-packed catch finished stamped crypts, chanceful catacombs, forsaken cathedrals, and modify to the hunch of the most secretive jump on earth, Langdon and Vetra module study a 400-year-old dawdle of ancient symbols that evaluation the Vatican's exclusive wish for survival.
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In those cases, the water stopped flowing and turned the kyareses into dry but comfortable underground catacombs.
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While their Roman counterparts worshipped in catacombs and underground vaults, the Egyptian Christians built their churches openly and performed their ceremonies in full view of the Empire.
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The slow progression of arches, with their classical stonework, feels more like something from a Roman catacomb than from the London Underground.
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It is a dangerous place, a place where vagrants live, where “lost boys” roam the catacombs, and where the dark figure of Drood and his two steersmen usher Dickens on a gondola to the deepest recesses of Underworld.
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He was a fixture in the liturgical life of the recusant safe-houses, the great country homes of Catholic aristocrats, which served as 16 th-century catacombs riddled with secret chambers to hide fugitive priests.
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It is a dangerous place, a place where vagrants live, where "lost boys" roam the catacombs, and where the dark figure of Drood and his two steersmen usher Dickens on a gondola to the deepest recesses of Underworld.
Archive 2010-01-01
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At another church is a kind of catacomb for the Earls of Kent: there are ten sumptuous monuments.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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These underground churches were called the catacombs, and some of them may still be seen at Rome.
Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine
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Crossing the threshold, Broker felt like he was entering an American catacomb.
VAPOR TRAIL
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The Isolation Plant is an immense underground catacomb of storage cells.
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But he had a wide knowledge of what we term the thieves 'catacombs, and, well, he' peached 'on the big fellow.
Half A Chance
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The region of the catacombs was called the Acheronian and [361] Acherusian plain, and likewise the Elysian: and the stream, which ran by it, had the name of Acheron.
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
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In some cases this accumulation of earth and sand has protected and hidden that portion of the catacomb which is vertically underneath and thus rescued many precious memorials from the ill-considered attentions, or outrages, of earlier explorers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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The history of libertarianism has played out in the catacombs of standard American intellectual history.
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The mill, with its well-cultivated catacomb charm, factory building bleakness and fancy lofts, could be described as the home of the New Leipzig School if you want to think of it in home terms.
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Over the course of time, landslides, rock movement, and vegetation hid the entrances to the other catacombs.
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The catacombs, and the lovingly tended graves within, have embalmed the lives and loves of centuries past in a deathly stillness, broken only by the babble of a passing brook.
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The combination of anchor and fish forms the ‘anchor-cross,’ which is another early Christian symbol found in the Roman catacombs.
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Because they feared persecution from the Roman rulers, they met secretly in private homes or in underground passages and rooms called catacombs.
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Close to the cedar, above catacombs and columbaria, tall, ugly, and individual, it looked like an apex of the competitive system.
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The Catacombs Project plans to refurbish the disused buildings under the church, which is a protected structure.
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As Louis entered the building, it occurred to him that the catacombs were the perfect place to store his doomsday portraits.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
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In 2009 the Vatican announced that the oldest known icon of the Apostle Paul had been found on the catacomb's ceiling.
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It belongs to the first half of the fourth century, and is said by Marucchi (II, 343) to be almost the latest catacomb fresco of Our Lady, a kind of hyphen between the primitive frescoes and the early Byzantine Madonnas; it seems at the same time a very early evidence of the adorational use of paintings in public worship (Le
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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A thing of wonder, they stretch to the skies, and can seem for a time great catacombs of effort.
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When the age of catacombs arrives, the word is not highly valued for the intellectual bourgeoisie.
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And because of its sudden notoriety, the Hell-Fire Club had to move from the abbey at Medmenham to a hidden warren of Gothic catacombs Sir Francis created at his nearby estate, some 30 miles north-west of London.
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We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs.
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In the northeast corner of the tomb was a small votive vessel filled with ocher, next to it more ocher, a stone pestle, and three objects made from the metacarpals of animals; in the northwest corner archaeologists found a bronze knife and a long bronze awl broken in half; in the southwest corner were two vessels covered with stone lids; and in the southeast corner, archaeologists were surprised to find a censer of a type commonly found in later so-called catacomb burials that had been placed upside down.
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The early Christian Church was driven off the face of the earth into catacombs, but emerged to rule supreme in the very city which had driven her underground; Muhammad barely escaped from Mecca with his life, but returned to make it the centre of his creed, and Crusaders died in hopeless defeat at Hattin cursing "Mahound" with their last breath as the enemy of their faith, yet their very presence there showed how Islam had revived Christianity.
Pan-Islam
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I had seen human remains treated with far less reverence; the skulls of early Christian martyrs jammed cheek by bony jowl together in heaps in the catacombs, thigh bones tossed in a pile like jackstraws underneath.
Dragonfly in Amber
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But from the very beginning, Christians used other means of artistic expression as well, such as sketches on the walls of Roman catacombs.
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Apis at Memphis while they lived; and being mummied after death, were buried in catacombs prepared for them in the desert.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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My three recommendations (all repeats of what others have said) are the Musee Cluny (the medieval museum), Pere Lachaise Cemetary (Abelard and Heloise's grave is the best), and the Catacombs.
What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day
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You start in the catacombs but beware ghostly ghouls at every turn!
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The catacombs are the ancient underground cemeteries used by the Christians and the Jewish people in Rome.
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He lived in dangerous times, so he constructed several secret passageways and catacombs underneath the city and inside the castle.
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Nobody knows how many there really are, or how many have since been removed from catacombs and buried in cemeteries by priests uneasy with the theology of keeping votive corpses.
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They went down into catacombs beneath the church.
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Badgers actually live together in large underground catacombs called ‘setts.’
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This and their fourth-century date - well into the Christian empire - has led some scholars to propose for them a hidden Christian significance, calling in support other images of Orpheus in Christian catacombs in Rome.
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The Isolation Plant is an immense underground catacomb of storage cells.
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But these catacombs, emptiness, desolation and that old brown lilacky, crumbly Roman earth, in which no plough need move nor spade, -- that _terriccio_, that pot-mould of the past.
The Spirit of Rome
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Vaster, more ambitious schemes were proposed, including a giant pyramidal catacomb atop Primrose Hill to house five million souls (the upper levels financed by the sale of the lower in an, er, pyramid-selling scheme), to which the seven were the sane and suburban alternative.
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A week of tramping for miles underground and sleeping in limestone catacombs tunneled out by sulfuric acid is not everyone's idea of happy camping.
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From the main entrance to the catacombs, which is near the barriers d'Enfer, a flight of ninety steps descends, at whose foot galleries are seen branching in various directions.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889