Mishmash Musings

For this week’s Five Things list, I’m going to tell you about five famous gravesites that I’ve visited. Yes, I’m one of those strange people who likes to visit tombstones and pay my respects to long-dead heroes… what can I say?

In cases where there was more than one famous person buried at a particular cemetery, I’m just going with a single name. It would be far too easy to list all the luminaries from, say, Westminster Abbey here.

1. Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors (Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France)
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author (St. Mary’s Cemetery, Rockville, MD)
3. Sir Isaac Newton, physicist, mathematician, all-around genius (Westminster Abbey, London, England)
4. John Keats, English poet (Protestant Cemetery, Rome, Italy)
5. Napoleon Bonaparte, French general/emperor (Les Invalides, Paris, France)

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