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Word: aldenburg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Johann Heinrich Karl Thieme of Aldenburg, Germany, dug a record 23,311 graves during a 50-year career as a sexton. Though he entered his own final resting place in 1826, he lives on-if nowhere else-in the Guinness Book of World Records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Human Need to Break Records | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

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