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Funerals
Funerals BIBLIOGRAPHY Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski once observed that when persons are actually “faced by death, Read more |
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Justus Jonas
Justus Jonas , 1493-1555, German Protestant reformer. In 1521, Jonas, then a professor at the Univ. of Erfurt, accompanied Martin Luther to the Diet of Worms. During their intimate friendship Jonas assisted Luther with the translation of the Bible. He also translated the Latin works of Luther and... Read more |
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Hagiography
HAGIOGRAPHY Various types of narratives with documentary and commemorative functions for the Orthodox Church are also regarded as important literary works in the medieval Russian canon. Sacred biographies (vitae ) were written about persons who had followed Christ's example in life and shown... Read more |
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Eleanor of Castile
Eleanor of Castile , d.1290, queen consort of Edward I of England and daughter of Ferdinand III of Castile. At her marriage (1254) she brought to Prince Edward the territories of Ponthieu and Montreuil and claims to Gascony. She went with Edward on the crusade of 1270-72 to the Holy Land, where... Read more |
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Life insurance
Life Insurance In general, life insurance is a type of coverage that pays benefits upon a person's death or disability. In exchange for relatively small premiums paid in the present, the policy holder receives the assurance that a larger amount of money will be available in the future to help his... Read more |
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grave
grave space excavated in the earth or rock for the burial of a corpse. When a grave is marked by a protective or memorial structure it is often referred to as a tomb . See burial ; funeral customs .... Read more |
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Service Corp. International
Service Corporation International 1929 Allen ParkwayP.O. Box 130548Houston, Texas 77019U.S.A.Telephone: (713) 522-5141Fax: (713) 525-5586Web site: http://www.sci-corp.com Public Company Incorporated: 1962Employees: 33,430Sales: $2.51 billion (2001)Stock Exchanges: New YorkTicker Symbol: SRVNAIC:... Read more |
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Dame Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie 1890-1976, English detective story writer, b. Torquay, Devon, as Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller. Christie's second husband was the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan , and she gained much material for her later novels during his excavations in the Middle East. An extraordinarily... Read more |
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suttee
suttee [Skt. sati =faithful wife], former Indian funeral practice in which the widow immolated herself on her husband's funeral pyre. The practice of killing a favorite wife on her husband's grave has been found in many parts of the world; it was followed by such peoples as the Thracians, the... Read more |
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Carriage Services Inc
Carriage Services, Inc. 1300 Post Oak BoulevardSuite 1500Houston, Texas 77056U.S.A.Telephone: (281) 556-7400Fax: (281) 556-7401Web site: http://www.carriageservices.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1991Employees: 2,769Sales: $168.5 million (1999)Stock Exchanges: New YorkTicker Symbol: CSVNAIC:... Read more |
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funeral practices: British customs
funeral practices: British customs...women. However, in cases of death at home undertakers are now generally...away from the location of death or mourning.Multipotent...before the jaw, hours after death. A corpse whose eyes refused...believed to presage further ... |
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funerals
...honoured by a state funeral. For less exalted people funerals were arranged according...to an undertaker, or funeral director, although...In the case of pauper deaths, the Poor Law authority paid for a simple funeral.The accuracy of ... |
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funeral practices: cultural variation
funeral practices: cultural variation...by those occasions when a funeral is deliberately denied. Denying...respect. We give a person a funeral, we pay ritual respect to...consciousness the physical reality of death, so evident in burial or... |
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Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman (1949), a play by Arthur Miller. [Morosco Theatre, 742...will resolve financial problems and give his boys another chance. At his funeral a neighbor characterizes Willy as “a man way out there in the blue, riding... |
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autopsy
...face may be viewed during the funeral.There are two basic kinds...nothing directly to do with the death. The medical autopsy also serves researchers...dissection to discover the cause of death carries with it that sense of personal...mortem’ (Latin: ‘after ... |
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corpse
...the body after the moment of death, but prior to the completion...the dead person; horror of death, dread of bereavement, or...of the likelihood of further deaths or of haunting.These lay...transplantation, the cause of death must be known and the ... |
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Hamlet
...Denmark, having arranged the deaths of his old friends Rosencrantz...rejection of her and her father's death, and is found drowned. Her...on avenging his sister's death. Hamlet and Laertes meet...exchange of weapons results in the deaths of both combatants, ... |
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House of Night, The
...that shall be conquered is Death.”Death, in his solitary palace at midnight...epitaph, which indicates that even Death has vanity, he makes a bargain with...certain reward. After the passing and funeral of Death, the poem concludes with ... |
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sepulchral ships
...afloat in his ship Hringhorn on a funeral pyre and, of course, there...Arthurian legends also tell of death ships, King Arthur being borne...it adrift. In 1847, on the death of Thieu-tru, Emperor of Cochin China, the boats used in his funeral procession were ... |
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bride burning
...fires that are often staged to make the deaths of these women appear to be suicides...widows committing ritual suicide on the funeral pyres of their dead husbands.The...cases where a women died an unnatural death, her property would devolve on her children...endangered ... |
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Funeral rites
Funeral rites. From extremely early...would be a worthwhile life after death. The funeral rites of the major...a continuity of life beyond death is clearly more probable, and...KARBALĀʾ; MASHHAD. See also DEATH; CREMATION; RITES OF PASSAGE... |
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funeral marches
funeral marches. Among the best known of...morte d'un eroe’ (on the death of a hero), which is a movt...28, in E minor (the title Funeral March not, however, authentic); (7) Siegfried's Funeral March from Wagner's Götterdämmerung... |
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funeral
funeral adj. XIV; sb. XVI. The adj. is — OF. funeral — late L. fūnerālis, f. fūnus, fūner- obsequies, death, corpse; the sb. is — (O)F. funéraille(s) — medL. fūnerālia; see -AL1. So funereal XVIII. f. L. fūnereus. |
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funerals
funerals After death, a body was washed (Acts 9: 37) and anointed (Mark 16: 1) and wrapped in cloth (Matt. 27: 59) and was then transported... |
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Death
...Then let me ask you about death.” Confucius said, “If we...life, how can we know about death?” ’ But in the Immortality...basis of these understandings of death, different religions have expressed...dead bodies: see CREMATION; FUNERAL RITES. They have also ... |
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Death, anniversary of
Death, anniversary of (Jewish commemoration): see YAHRZEIT; FUNERAL RITES. |
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Mourning rites
...or an individual) upon the death of one of its members. Mourning...are to be distinguished from funeral rites, which concern the disposition...recited on the anniversary of the death. In Christianity, mourning...efficacy of Christ's atoning death and of the ... |
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Purcell, Henry
...In 1695, for Queen Mary's funeral, he comp. an anthem (Thou...works and were used for his own funeral later the same year. Purcell...until the bicentenary of his death that this judgment came to be accepted...birthday (1694); Elegy on the death of Queen Mary ... |
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knell
...n. the sound of a bell, esp. when rung solemnly for a death or funeral. ∎ fig. used with reference to an announcement, event, or...v. [intr.] (of a bell) ring solemnly, esp. for a death or funeral. |
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Ādya-śrādha
Ādya-śrādha. A Hindu anticipatory funeral rite, performed during their lifetime by those who have no son to perform the appropriate rites for them after death, or by those who for some other reason believe that the rites will not be performed after death. |
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Shepshed family deaths funeral date
THE funerals of Shepshed mum Claudia Oakes-Green...occurred. Mystery still surrounds the deaths but an inquest, which has been opened...adjourned, will examine how they died. Their funerals are due to be held in Newcastle where... |
 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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In coffin No 207, the body of the youngest victim. A baby boy. He would have...
...one of 205 laid out in rows at a mass funeral of victims of the disaster that claimed...deceased, the dates of their birth and death. But even on the day people came to pay...Cardinal Tarcisio Bertoni conducts mass funeral service in devastated L'Aquila yesterday... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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A question of dignity in death Funeral directors seek more to bury the...
...and that's not counting a funeral service. He backs changes...set up a system to assign [funeral directors] something like...will do X amount of indigent funerals, and have a state agency...of services and materials funeral directors must provide for ... |
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Arafat blames Israel for Husseini's death. Funeral in Jerusalem today.
...Arafat blames Israel for Husseini's death. Funeral in Jerusalem today.Byline: LAMIA...Arafat yesterday blamed Israel for the death of leading Palestinian politician...by the Israeli forces led to his death," Arafat told reporters in Belgium... |
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Making a living dealing with death Funeral director follows in family's...
...phone. There had been a death at the hospital at 10:30...the helm of a tradition of funeral service that dates to 1872...says, the visitation and funeral often are a celebration of...remembers one little girl's funeral which ended with the family...balloon. ... |
 "The Economist (US)")
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The world's way of death.(funeral customs around the world)
...least changing of rituals THE funeral of the assassinated Indian...edges of the pyre. African funerals meld together Christian, Muslim...Kenyans present at Mrs Gandhi's funeral had ever seen anything like...before sundown on the day of death, even if close ... |
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Program on life, death, funeral of Lincoln slated
...date. Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home will host "Now He Belongs...Presentation of Abraham Lincoln's Life, Death and Funeral." The event is an official part...of the event. "The Museum of Funeral Customs in Springfield has really... |
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DEATHS FUNERAL SERVICES AND MEMORIALS.(Obituaries)
...at 7 p.m. in the chapel at Santa Fe Funeral Options. Mass of Christian burial will...Rosario Cemetery. Arrangements by Santa Fe Funeral Options, 417 E. Rodeo Road, 989-7032...87505, attn: Diane Broome, R.N. Funeral services will take place on Saturday... |
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Cells death funeral.
THE funeral has taken place of a Birmingham man...investigating the circumstances of his death. The cause of death is still unknown and the Authority is...results. An inquest into Mr Leach's death has been opened and adjourned. |
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Cells death funeral
THE funeral has taken place of a Birmingham man...investigating the circumstances of his death. The cause of death is still unknown and the Authority is...results. An inquest into Mr Leach's death has been opened and adjourned. |
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