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Some survivors and their relatives prayed at the park's cenotaph before the ceremony. Author: Mari Yamaguchi, Anchorage Daily News, "Survivors mark 75th anniversary of atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima by US," 6 Aug. 2020

Some survivors and their relatives prayed at the park’s cenotaph before the ceremony. Fox News, "Hiroshima survivors mark 75th anniversary of attack, urge ban on nuclear weapons," 6 Aug. 2020

Some survivors and their relatives prayed at the park’s cenotaph before the ceremony. Mari Yamaguchi, The Christian Science Monitor, "Hiroshima 75 years later: Survivors still fight for A-bomb ban," 6 Aug. 2020

Some survivors and their relatives prayed at the park’s cenotaph before the ceremony. Mari Yamaguchi, BostonGlobe.com, "Survivors mark 75th anniversary of world’s 1st atomic attack," 6 Aug. 2020

And pay tribute to President John F. Kennedy by viewing The Sixth Floor Museum, Dealey Plaza and the Kennedy memorial cenotaph. Shannon Sutlief, Dallas News, "Explore Dallas like a visitor and enjoy some safe-distance sightseeing," 14 May 2020

The imperial graveyard of London, with its Trafalgar Square, Waterloo Station, and countless cenotaphs and war memorials, sets the stage for an altogether different response to the coronavirus outbreak. Patrick Mulholland, National Review, "Easter Still Frames the Irish Response to Times of National Crisis," 13 Apr. 2020

His gravestone was actually a cenotaph, a stone with his name on it but no body buried underneath. CBS News, "Headless torso found in Idaho cave identified as outlaw who escaped jail in 1916," 1 Jan. 2020

The pharaoh also took the care to honor his grandmother Tetisheri by building a cenotaph to her in Abydos, the center of the cult of Osiris, the god of the afterlife. National Geographic, "How three rebel queens of Egypt overthrew an empire and gave birth to a new kingdom," 7 Mar. 2019

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