Machpelah
Americannoun
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Four busts of Houdini atop the central pedestal of his family plot in the Machpelah Cemetery in Queens were smashed or stolen between 1975 and 1993.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2011
A bust has been restored at Harry Houdini’s grave site in the Machpelah Cemetery in Queens.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2011
The Cave -- the title refers to the cave of Machpelah where Abraham and his family are supposedly buried -- is Come Out come out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meinertzhagen, moreover, is the only living European . . . who has entered the hallowed and mysterious cave of Machpelah* in the tomb of the patriarchs at Hebron.
From Time Magazine Archive
On its eastern height is the spot which gives it to this day perhaps its most sacred interest—the cave of Machpelah, where the dust of the patriarchs has reposed for four thousand years.
From The Cities of Refuge: or, The Name of Jesus A Sunday book for the young by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)
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