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247:'You always seem to have politicians doing bizarrely self-destructive things, especially involving sex,' says Lawrence Kestenbaum, creator of 'Political Graveyard,' a history Web site that includes an exhaustive cataloging of transgressions by politicians.
158:, which was its original data source. Since then his personal research, and the information contributions of hundreds of volunteers, have greatly expanded the information available. It is licensed under the "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0"
115:, along with other information. The name comes from the website's inclusion of burial locations of the deceased (when known). It is also a pun; where bodies are buried can refer to the politicians accused of crimes or touched by scandal.
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