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| has gloss | eng: The Congressional Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at 1801 E Street, SE, in Washington, D.C., on the west bank of the Anacostia River. It is the final resting place of thousands of individuals who helped form the nation and the city of Washington in the early 19th century. Many members of the U.S. Congress who died while Congress was in session are interred at Congressional. Other burials include the early landowners and speculators, the builders and architects of the great buildings of Washington, native American diplomats, mayors of Washington, and hundreds of Civil War veterans. Nineteenth-century Washington, D.C. families unaffiliated with the federal government have also had graves and tombs at the cemetery. In all there is one Vice-President, one Supreme Court Justice, five Cabinet Members, 19 Senators and 71 Representatives - including a former Speaker of the House, buried there; as well as veterans of every American war. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 23, 1969. |
| lexicalization | eng: Congressional Cemetery |
| lexicalization | eng: Washington Parish Burial Ground |
| instance of | (noun) the legislature of the United States government US Congress, Congress, United States Congress, U.S. Congress |
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| has gloss | pol: Cmentarz Kongresowy (ang. Congressional Cemetery) – historyczny cmentarz w Waszyngtonie przy brzegu rzeki Anacostia. Na jego terenie pochowani są ludzie, którzy przyczynili się do powstania i rozwoju Stanów Zjednoczonych oraz miasta Waszyngton (w tym wódz Czoktawów Pushmataha, aktorka kina niemego Mary Fuller i dyrektor FBI John Edgar Hoover), politycy i przedsiębiorcy, setki weteranów wojen, a także dziewiętnastu senatorów i siedemdziesięciu dziewięciu członków Izby Reprezentantów Stanów Zjednoczonych, którzy zmarli zasiadając w Kongresie Stanów Zjednoczonych. Ponadto na terenie cmentarza znajduje się sto dwadzieścia jednakowych pomników według projektu Benjamina Latrobe upamiętniających członków Kongresu pochowanych gdzie indziej. |
| lexicalization | pol: Congressional Cemetery |
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| geo loc | geographic location 38.88111111111111 -76.97888888888889 |
| media:img | Congressional Cemetery.jpg |
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