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Potter's field, the Glossary

A potter's field, paupers' grave or common grave is a place for the burial of unknown, unclaimed or indigent people.^[1]

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Akeldama

Akeldama (Aramaic: חקל דמא or 𐡇𐡒𐡋 𐡃𐡌𐡀 Ḥaqel D'ma, "field of blood"; Hebrew: חקל דמא; Arabic: حقل الدم, Ḥaqel Ad-dam) is the Aramaic name for a place in Jerusalem associated with Judas Iscariot, one of the original twelve apostles of Jesus.

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Anacostia

Anacostia is a historic neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C. Its downtown is located at the intersection of Marion Barry Avenue (formerly Good Hope Road)SE, Morris Road SE, Fort Stanton Park SE, and Anacostia Freeway SE.

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Aramaic

Aramaic (ˀərāmiṯ; arāmāˀiṯ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula, where it has been continually written and spoken in different varieties for over three thousand years.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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Blue Plains (Washington, D.C.)

Blue Plains is a locale in the southwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. The area gives its name to the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant.

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Book of Zechariah

The Book of Zechariah is a Jewish text attributed to Zechariah, a Hebrew prophet of the late 6th century BC.

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Boot Hill

Boot Hill, or Boothill, is the given name of many cemeteries, chiefly in the Western United States.

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Bryant Park

Bryant Park is a, privately managed public park in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Buddy Bolden

Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden (September 6, 1877 – November 4, 1931) was an American cornetist who was regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of ragtime music, or "jass", which later came to be known as jazz.

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Cemetery

A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. Potter's field and cemetery are cemeteries and death customs.

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Census-designated place

A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Cincinnati

Cincinnati (nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.

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Cincinnati Music Hall

Music Hall, commonly known as Cincinnati Music Hall, is a classical music performance hall in Cincinnati, Ohio, completed in 1878.

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Craig Blomberg

Craig L. Blomberg (born August 3, 1955) is an American New Testament scholar. He is currently the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the New Testament at Denver Seminary in Colorado where he has been since 1986. His area of academic expertise is the New Testament,including subjects relating to parables, miracles, the historical Jesus, Luke-Acts, John, 1 Corinthians, James, the historical trustworthiness of Scripture, financial stewardship, gender roles, the Latter Day Saint movement, hermeneutics, New Testament theology, and exegetical methods.

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Crosby, Texas

Crosby is a census-designated place in Harris County, Texas, United States.

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Douay–Rheims Bible

The Douay–Rheims Bible, also known as the Douay–Rheims Version, Rheims–Douai Bible or Douai Bible, and abbreviated as D–R, DRB, and DRV, is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the English College, Douai, in the service of the Catholic Church.

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Eloise (psychiatric hospital)

Eloise Psychiatric Hospital was a large complex located in Westland, Michigan.

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Eloise Cemetery

Eloise Cemetery was the name applied to cemeteries used by the Eloise hospital complex located in what was then Nankin Township in western Wayne County, Michigan, and is now Westland, Michigan.

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Gehenna

The Valley of Hinnom, Gehinnom (Gēʾ ḇen-Hīnnōm, or label) or Gehenna (Géenna), also known as Wadi el-Rababa, is a historic valley surrounding Jerusalem from the west and southwest that has acquired various theological connotations, including as a place of divine punishment, in Jewish eschatology.

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Gentile

Gentile is a word that today usually means someone who is not Jewish.

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Golden Gate Cemetery (San Francisco, California)

Golden Gate Cemetery, also called the City Cemetery, and Potter's Field, was a burial ground with 29,000 remains, active between 1870 and approximately 1909 and was located in San Francisco, California.

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Green Bay, Wisconsin

Green Bay is a city in and the county seat of Brown County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Harris County, Texas

Harris County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas; as of the 2020 census, the population was 4,731,145, making it the most populous county in Texas and the third-most populous county in the United States.

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Hart Island

Hart Island, sometimes referred to as Hart's Island, is located at the western end of Long Island Sound, in the northeastern Bronx in New York City.

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Holt Cemetery

Holt Cemetery is a potter's field cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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Houston Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Hudson County Burial Grounds

The Hudson County Burial Grounds, also known as the Secaucus Potter's Field and Snake Hill Cemetery, is located in Secaucus, New Jersey.

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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

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Judas Iscariot

Judas Iscariot (Ἰούδας Ἰσκαριώτης Ioúdas Iskariṓtēs; died AD) was—according to Christianity's four canonical gospels—a first-century Jewish man who became a disciple and one of the original Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ.

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Kiss of Judas

The kiss of Judas, also known as the Betrayal of Christ, is the act with which Judas identified Jesus to the multitude with swords and clubs who had come from the chief priests and elders of the people to arrest him, according to the Synoptic Gospels.

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Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park is a park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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Madison Square and Madison Square Park

Madison Square is a public square formed by the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Mass grave

A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. Potter's field and mass grave are cemeteries and mass graves.

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Matthew 27:3

Matthew 27:3 is the third verse of the twenty-seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.

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Matthew 27:7

Matthew 27:7 is the seventh verse of the twenty-seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.

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Matthew 27:8

Matthew 27:8 is the eighth verse of the twenty-seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.

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MLive Media Group, originally known as Booth Newspapers, or Booth Michigan, is a media group that produces newspapers in the state of Michigan.

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New Orleans

New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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New Testament

The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.

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Operation Pastorius

Operation Pastorius was a failed German intelligence plan for sabotage inside the United States during World War II.

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Pauper's funeral

In the United Kingdom, a pauper's funeral was a funeral for a pauper paid for under the Poor Law.

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Poor box

A poor box, alms box, offertory box, or mite box is a box that is used to collect coins for charitable purposes.

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Potter's Field (Omaha)

The Potter's Field Cemetery in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, is located on a plot of land at 5000 Young Street near the intersections of Young Street and Mormon Bridge Road.

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Puticuli

Puticuli were open pits used as mass graves for the poor in ancient Rome. Potter's field and Puticuli are death customs and mass graves.

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Queen Lane Apartments

Queen Lane Apartments opened in 1955 as one of several Post-War public housing hi-rise complexes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which were built and maintained by the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA).

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Robert Charles

Robert Charles (1865–1900) was an African-American living in New Orleans who took part in a gunfight after being assaulted by a police officer, leading to the death of 4 police and 2 civilians, and the wounding of over 20 others.

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Robert Charles riots

The Robert Charles riots of July 24–27, 1900 in New Orleans, Louisiana were sparked after Afro-American laborer Robert Charles fatally shot a white police officer during an altercation and escaped arrest.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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Secaucus, New Jersey

Secaucus is a town in Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground

The Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground (Richmond's 2nd African Burial Ground) was established by the city of Richmond, Virginia, for the interment of free people of color, and the enslaved.

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Strangers' Burying Ground

The Strangers' Burying Ground, also known as Potter's Field, was the first non-denominational cemetery in York, Upper Canada (now Toronto, Ontario).

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The Bronx

The Bronx is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Thirty pieces of silver

Thirty pieces of silver was the price for which Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, according to an account in the Gospel of Matthew 26:15 in the New Testament.

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Torah

The Torah (תּוֹרָה, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Unidentified decedent

Unidentified decedent, or unidentified person (also abbreviated as UID or UP), is a corpse of a person whose identity cannot be established by police and medical examiners.

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Unincorporated area

An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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University of North Texas

The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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Veterans of Foreign Wars

The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), formally the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, is an organization of U.S. war veterans who fought in wars, campaigns, and expeditions on foreign land, waters, or airspace as military service members.

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Washington Park Historic District (Albany, New York)

Washington Park in Albany, New York is the city's premier park and the site of many festivals and gatherings.

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Washington Square (Philadelphia)

Washington Square, originally designated in 1682 as Southeast Square, is a open-space park in Center City, Philadelphia, The southeast quadrant and one of the five original planned squares laid out on the city grid by William Penn's surveyor, Thomas Holme.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potter's_field

Also known as Common Graves, Common grave, Pauper grave, Pauper's grave, Paupers field, Paupers grave, Paupers' grave, Potter's field (graveyard), Potter's grave, Potters Field.

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