Lincoln, John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan are among the elite to have lain in state here.
The coffins of many French luminaries, such as Victor Hugo and Ferdinand Foch, have lain in state there before their interment elsewhere.
Twenty-nine people have lain in state in the Capitol Rotunda since the custom began in 1852 with Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky.
In the latter case, the sixth-century Bamiyan buddhas, destroyed by the Taliban, have lain in rubble since 2001.
Curiously, Mandela's greatness seems to have lain in all these things, and yet in none of them.
For seven years, his father's bones have lain in a filing cabinet in James Starrs's office.
Mr Lansdown confirmed that the body may have lain in the house for weeks, something neighbours also said yesterday.
The key to Christopher's ever-cautious character may have lain in an early and traumatic experience.
Nigger should have lain in state in the rotunda of the Capitol, to be viewed by all the honourable men and women in government – if there are any.
FOR five years since an earthquake, known in Creole as the goudougoudou, struck Haiti on January 12th 2010, the capital's cinemas have lain in ruins.
