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The Earl Who Was Buried Standing Up

"No man shall look down upon me" — so he was buried upright, above his rivals.

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The Earl of Suffolk demanded to be buried vertically in 1799 so that even in death, he would stand above his rivals. His will specified "no man shall look down upon me."

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