Where are they buried? How did they die? : fitting ends and final resting places of the famous, infamous and noteworthy / Tod Benoit.
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TextPublisher: New York : Black Dog & Leventhal, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Revised & updatedDescription: 639 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781579129842Subject(s): Celebrities -- Death | Biography -- 20th century | CemeteriesDDC classification: 920.00904 Summary: DICTIONARIES OF BIOGRAPHY (WHO'S WHO). An irresistible and browsable guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of the world's most influential figures.This unparalleled compilation of profiles of the deceased from Abbott and Costello to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, from Arthur Ashe to Paul Newman, offers all the pertinent details on how they lived and died. It is also a detailed atlas of where they are buried. Each entry in this fascinating book includes an entertaining capsule biography full of little-known facts, a detailed description of each subject's death, and very specific directions to the location and site of the grave. Fifty photos and informative sidebars (on such topics as how to find anyone's grave) round out this indispensable field guide to the "permanent addresses" of the world's most significant late citizens. New additions to the roster of final resting places include Steve Jobs, Whitney Houston, Neil Armstrong, Elizabeth Taylor, Dick Clark and many more.
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Includes index.
DICTIONARIES OF BIOGRAPHY (WHO'S WHO). An irresistible and browsable guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of the world's most influential figures.This unparalleled compilation of profiles of the deceased from Abbott and Costello to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, from Arthur Ashe to Paul Newman, offers all the pertinent details on how they lived and died. It is also a detailed atlas of where they are buried. Each entry in this fascinating book includes an entertaining capsule biography full of little-known facts, a detailed description of each subject's death, and very specific directions to the location and site of the grave. Fifty photos and informative sidebars (on such topics as how to find anyone's grave) round out this indispensable field guide to the "permanent addresses" of the world's most significant late citizens. New additions to the roster of final resting places include Steve Jobs, Whitney Houston, Neil Armstrong, Elizabeth Taylor, Dick Clark and many more.
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