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a house you build so death has somewhere fancy to brag about you.
means A grand, free-standing tomb or building constructed to hold the remains of a person or family.
from From Latin mausoleum, from Greek Mausoleion — the colossal tomb built for Mausolus, a 4th-century BCE ruler of Caria in Asia Minor. His grieving wife (and sister) Artemisia commissioned a monument so spectacular it became one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. The man's name became the word: every fancy tomb since has been borrowing Mausolus's reputation.
- named after
- King Mausolus, whose tomb coined the entire word
- ancient wonder
- the original was one of the Seven Wonders
- earthquake fall
- survived 16 centuries before quakes finally toppled it
- stone recycled
- Crusaders crushed its marble into a castle
- living examples
- Lenin's body still on display since 1924
taj mahal — shah jahan's mausoleum for his wife mumtaz mahal in agra, india, completed 1653
lenin's mausoleum — vladimir lenin's embalmed body on display in red square, moscow since 1924
ho chi minh mausoleum — ho chi minh's monumental tomb in hanoi, vietnam, opened 1975