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of dollhouse grave markers used to mark the graves of girls who died very young. Complete with glass windows and working doors, these tombstones often contained the child’s toys.

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A care taker of a cemetery with OCD had families sign a paper before their loved one was buried in the cemetery, allowing him to move graves around to keep all the grave markers in alphabetical order. Before his death he changed his last name to Zuckerman to keep the graves in proper A-Z order.

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1. While multiple historical sources point to Sacagawea having died in 1812 at the age of 24, there is a grave marker in Wyoming suggesting she died in 1884 at the age of 96.

2. During the Civil War the South had combat camels. One camel, Douglas, was killed by a Union solider during the Siege of Vicksburg. The Confederates related by sending 6 of their best to kill the guy & succeed. Douglas has his own grave marker in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg, Mississippi

3. It is possible to get the Hammer of Thor on your government headstone or grave marker as an emblem of belief.

4. Chert was used in the late 1800's and early 1900's as grave markers or headstones.

5. Grave markers in a cemetery in Romania graphically show details of the lives and deaths of it's inhabitants.

6. Some believe that the tall stones are actually grave markers.

7. There are two grave markers embedded in the runway of Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport. Pilots sometimes ask to use that specific runway to see the graves.

8. Azerbaijan's response to being caught destroying Armenian grave markers in its Nakhchivan exclave was "Armenians have never lived in Nakhichevan, which has been Azerbaijani land from time immemorial, and that's why there are no Armenian cemeteries and monuments and have never been any."

9. The Savannah/Hilton Head Airport Runway; one of the only known runways to have grave markers embedded in it

10. The WWI Oise-Aisne American Cemetery in France has a secluded and unmarked fifth plot with the remains of 94 American Soldiers executed in WWII. So a visitor could not identify individual graves, each grave is marked only with an index card sized marker with a grave number.

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There are two grave markers on Savannah Intl Airport's Runway 10. Picture in comments.

The headstones issued by the VA for veteran grave markers can include a litany of different "religious" emblems, including all the major world religions, Native American emblems, atheist and American Humanist emblems, even the Hammer of Thor (religious, not Marvel), and more. - source