Bodies of Departed Leaders

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Bess Lovejoy, Here Lies Our Not-So-Departed Leader; From Alexander the Great to Eva Perón, the bodies of political chiefs have taken some strange journeys. Wall Street Journal, Mar 16, 2013.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 56700794157238.html

Note:
(a) Memphis, Egypt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis,_Egypt
(According to legend related by Manetho, the city was founded by the pharaoh Menes around 3000 BC; now in ruin; occupied a strategic position at the mouth of the Nile delta; 20 km (12 mi) south of Cairo; section 1 Toponymy; capital of Ancient Egypt for over eight consecutive dynasties during the Old Kingdom; In the beginning of the Middle Kingdom, the capital and court of the pharaoh had moved to Thebes in the south)

* Founded in 1819, Memphis, Tennessee was named after Memphis, Egypt.
* Old Kingdom of Egypt (Third Dynasty through to the Sixth Dynasty; 2686 BC – 2181 BC) Wiki
(b) Alexandria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria
(is the second largest city [after Cairo] in Egypt, with a population of 4.1 million; founded around a small pharaonic town c 331 BC by Alexander the Great)
(c) Alexander the Great
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great
(Alexander III of Macedon; 356-323 BC; section 7.1 After death)

* Caligula
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula
(also known as Gaius; 12-41 AD; Roman emperor 37-41 AD; The young Gaius earned the nickname Caligula (meaning "little soldier's boot", the diminutive form of caliga, n. hob-nailed military boot) from his father's soldiers while accompanying him during his campaigns in Germania)
(d) The article says, "Lenin himself never asked to be put on display. His dying wish was to be buried simply, near his mother and sister in St Petersburg."
* Lenin's Mausoleum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin's_Mausoleum
("President Boris Yeltsin, with the support of the Russian Orthodox Church, intended to close the tomb and bury Lenin next to his mother, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, at the Volkov Cemetery in Saint Petersburg. His successor, Vladimir Putin, opposed this, pointing out that a reburial of Lenin would imply that generations of citizens had observed false values during 70 years of Soviet rule")
* His sister Olga was also buried in that cemetery.
* Vladimir Lenin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
(Lenin attended "University of Saint Petersburg, obtaining the equivalent of a first-class degree with honours; celebrations were marred when his sister Olga [born 1871] died of typhoid [at age 19])