" According to the DOC, individual pine coffins are buried on Hart Island in large plots, with each plot able to hold "150 adult coffins or 1,1503 infant coffins.
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We know the funeral homes in Tulsa ran out of coffins after the race massacre, so victims may have been buried without coffins.
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The Polish prosecutors said on Monday that a re-opening of the victims' coffins, which had been sealed in Russia, has revealed that in two cases remains were in the wrong coffins and in five coffins there were fragments of other bodies.
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The Polish prosecutors also said on Monday that the re-opening of the victims' coffins, which had been sealed in Russia, has so far revealed that in two cases remains were in the wrong coffins and in five coffins there were fragments of other bodies.
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Three years on, with the oil-rich country mired in deep economic crisis, their "bio-coffins" are becoming a viable option because of high prices for wooden coffins and shortages of brass ones.
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"Some coffins are really beautiful and quite intact," Moran said.
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When they continued to dig, 17 more coffins were found.
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They gathered around the coffins, crying and comforting each other.
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Perhaps the sensation simply put him in mind of coffins.
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He helped build the simple wooden coffins for the victims.
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The coffins were stacked in two layers under the ground.
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He said the town had no coffins or sanitary storage.
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Last year, Polish prosecutors ordered the coffins to be reopened.
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All too often they come home maimed or in coffins.
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But the beachgoers are holding not surfboards, but wooden coffins.
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And some start DIY clubs to craft their own coffins.
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Others have boarded a truck carrying a shipment of coffins.
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Carrying coffins and placards and placards with inscriptions such as "Women Lives Matter" to the Naguru Police Headquarters in Kampala, they say the coffins are a symbol of those who have died in the abductions.
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Government workers get better coffins; children are buried in white ones.
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The site contained two coffins, each holding a single male skeleton.
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Flag-draped coffins have been greeted by spouses and young children.
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Demonstrators carried coffins symbolically emblazoned with the names of forestry inspectors.
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State media said that villagers had willingly handed over their coffins.
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People carry the coffins of mudslide victims during a mass burial.
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Its modest selection of coffins includes a willow one for $1,370.
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After those coffins were excavated, the archeologists discovered an additional 12.
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The coffins are usually surrounded by gamblers huddled around card tables.
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Relatives gathered around the wooden coffins, crying and comforting each other.
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Communities talk of hundreds of coffins returning from the front line.
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The coffins were borne off above the heads of the crowd.
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Prohibited from holding services, churches have been used to store coffins.
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Four coffins were covered in white flowers, one for each driver.
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Still, Paa Joe makes up to four fantasy coffins every month.
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Then came the doughnuts, the Pegasus floats and the novelty coffins.
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The diversity of coffins in the Egyptian section reflects wealth disparity.
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He makes fantasy coffins that are in most major museum collections.
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And yet here were all these bones and remnants of coffins.
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A few months later, a backhoe crunched into skeletons and coffins.
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Coffins bobbed to the surface in a cemetery and floated away.
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She currently has about a dozen students working to exhume the coffins.
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Row of coffins of the 9 killed by police in Oakland, 2015.
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Larnakes are small, closed coffins that were often used in Minoan culture.
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One of two coffins found in the tomb, amid bits of pottery.
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Amazon, Alibaba and Walmart sell a range of coffins and urns online.
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After the war, coffins and cemeteries got fancier and embalming more elaborate.
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Here, the participating pairs were side by side in separate single coffins.
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His seven employees build personalized coffins that usually sell for about $3,500.
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Then they put on burial shrouds and lie down in the coffins.
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Throw it in the empty swimming pool along with those mini coffins!
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Tug open another, and several celluloid figures are laid in cardboard coffins.
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Loved ones can't even approach coffins for fear of catching the virus.
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Then the sun poured in, illuminating the flags draped over the coffins.
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The coffins came one by one, some heavy and others much lighter.
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More coffins will be sent to the village in the coming days.
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Loved ones can't even approach coffins for fear of catching the virus.
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The death toll was so high that undertakers ran out of coffins.
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There were fewer carpenters selling coffins on the side of the street.
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The objects include ornate and colorful wooden coffins, paintings, sculptures, and more.
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Down the 30-meter-deep shaft lie several mummies, wooden coffins and sarcophagi.
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His talk of preparing coffins, in other words, should be taken rather literally.
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Egypt unveils the discovery of 30 ancient coffins with mummies inside Around Halloween?
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Many of the mourners wiped their eyes as the coffins entered the sanctuary.
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And traveling salesman would sell all aspects of death, including coffins and mausoleums.
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In some water-ravaged areas, houses flooded to rooflines, and coffins floated away.
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They sleep in a dosshouse in wooden beds that look like open coffins.
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Pall-bearers dressed in white then carried in the coffins one by one.
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We are running out of coffins to bury our friends, family and colleagues.
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The post featured an image of military coffins draped in the American flag.
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Monks also meditate in caves and coffins, where the absolute darkness enhances concentration.
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Ornate white coffins with golden trim were laid out, ready to receive more.
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He watched friends of his die, saw their coffins go into the ground.
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Because of mass burials and disintegrated coffins, many of the remains had scattered.
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Burials in coffins, Regnier says, are picked up more strongly by radar technology.
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In response, Australia has been shipping child-size coffins to bury the dead.
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Residents carry the coffins of seven people along the streets of Alotenango on Monday.
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One man riding with the coffins, Salim Haider, told Reuters he lost his nephew.
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Names of the dead were also carved onto some of the coffins, Hawass said.
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Inside lay 30 lead coffins, including the remains of five former Archbishops of Canterbury.
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Numerous coffins were discovered in the crypt, some stacked on top of each other.
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Should the news show the coffins of US soldiers as they're returned from war?
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His drug trafficking using coffins served as a main plot point for American Gangster.
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On Thursday, mourners carried wooden coffins, painted green, to the Grand Mosque for prayers.
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And in the distance, I envision ordered rows of brand-new, see-through coffins.
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The idea is to place inconspicuous bar codes on all new coffins and tombs.
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Archaeologists just uncovered 20 colorful, carved wooden coffins in a huge tomb in Egypt.
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The coffins are about 3,000 years old and were probably for priests and children.
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American Folk Art Museum Joseph Tetteh Ashong, better known as Paa Joe, makes coffins.
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On Saturday, 158 metal coffins were sent to the air base, Ms. Lovett said.
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Some are buried in Turkey or in Greece, or were returned home in coffins.
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One carried three coffins with three names: Ali Toudehfallah, Ali Gholizadeh and Reza Sabeti.
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Insist on the withdrawal of your sons from our country or prepare their coffins.
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The materials for making coffins to international standards are not cheap, Paa Joe says.
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Several motorcycle taxi drivers drove circles around their coffins, in a sign of respect.
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He also said the coffins were sealed before the bodies were returned to Poland.
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As the nation mourned, relatives dug mass graves as colorful coffins lined the shores.
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Some also have climate-controlled coffins with transparent lids so mourners can peer inside.
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Some were macabre, like the dozens of coffins that were nudged aboveground in Texas.
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Their homes are now the flag-covered coffins in which their bodies are confined.
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They say that this summer officials went door-to-door collecting the coffins that elderly residents had purchased and put aside, as is often the custom in rural areas—expensive ones are sometimes displayed as status symbols (coffins confiscated in Shangrao are pictured).
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These coffins were often decorated with abstract patterns, or scenes depicting hunting and religious rituals.
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The first time, skeptical of the spectacle, I insisted on opening one of the coffins.
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According to archaeologist Zahi Hawass, finding coffins belonging to a child is a rare occurrence.
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Pall-bearers wearing white carried in wooden coffins one by one, followed by distraught relatives.
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Their remains were placed into 120 coffins decorated with the Star of David, AP reports.
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Professionally, Assadayut has a more unassuming role running a business selling coffins in Bangkok's Chinatown.
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" He adds: "Duck boats are death traps, and with the canopies, they are sinking coffins.
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When Dolores sees the maze icon on the coffins, she says "I'm coming" to herself.
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Kwei and his family make handcrafted custom designed coffins of almost anything you can imagine.
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Undeterred, he decided to simply build his restaurant anyway, setting up tables around the coffins.
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Archaeologists opened the coffins at a ceremony on Saturday to reveal perfectly preserved mummies inside.
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For some of the younger victims, he plans to paint coffins with princesses and Barbie.
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Most escape rooms, for one thing, are quite large, relative to the coffins I'd pictured.
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By midnight, local funeral homes had begun delivering coffins to relatives at the accident site.
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He said he hired a carpenter to build coffins with false bottoms to conceal heroin.
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In the front row, Chana Gluck sat, near the velvet-draped coffins of her parents.
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Members of the Army's Old Guard escorted horse-drawn caissons carrying the flag-draped coffins.
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She has ridden in closed coffins to these signings, with ice to keep her cool.
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Five open coffins at a funeral home in Upper Manhattan held Ambrozine Stewart's lost treasures.
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NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka — The coffins came one by one, some heavy and others unusually light.
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Shortages of wood and metal for coffins and cement for graves have complicated traditional burials.
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In a flashback scene, he was also hesitant about leaving the couple in the coffins, too.
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CAIRO – Egypt says it has repatriated nine illegally smuggled artifacts, including statuary and coffins, from France.
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It shows the coffins of American soldiers killed in Iraq aboard a US-bound cargo plane.
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But previous ones have been older, and include two found in coffins within King Tut's tomb.
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Current estimates now place the total number of coffins buried beneath the campus at approximately 7,000.
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The crowd later marched to NYPD headquarters in Lower Manhattan, where they laid down cardboard coffins.
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The Ancient Egyptians used to immaculately decorate coffins/sarcophagi to ensure safe passage into the afterlife.
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In the city centre, small coffins wrapped in flowery plastic were stacked outside a carpenter's shop.
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Some of the coffins were blue, others white, all elaborately adorned and bearing names: Manuela. Aurelia.
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The restaurant features 12 coffins, and has been a popular local hangout for over 50 years.
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While in the coffins, couples were presented with mini-challenges that ranged from unpleasant to uncomfortable.
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"We're going to have to look at three coffins," Evelyn Sing, the kids' grandmother, told WAFB.
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" At one point, Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut referred to the 737 MAX as "flying coffins.
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Many were seen sobbing as the coffins of their loved ones were lowered to the ground.
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At a viewing on Tuesday, five white coffins lined St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church.
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The goal is to reduce the use of land for graveyards and spending on expensive coffins.
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We believed the more coffins that reached London, the closer the day of freedom would be.
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The family was buried in four coffins — Colson, cradled in his mother's arms in their casket.
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"I love everything about this pilgrimage, but not these coffins," said Josefa Díaz Domínguez, a pensioner.
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Mr. Zelensky, along with his top aides and cabinet members, stood silently as the coffins passed.
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The coffins are made from particleboard kits and are shaped like traditional caskets or as rectangles.
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Mahogany or some high-grade hardwood is used to protect the coffins from insects and cracking.
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To a demand for coffins that can't be met, and regions destabilized by death and disease.
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Three drummers led the procession, followed by people carrying 1.73 coffins bearing names of the dead.
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About half the rooms are fitted with small altars and narrow platforms designed to hold coffins.
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One of the coffins was broken open and its contents were dragged out on the floor.
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On the ground floor Andreas Slominski mixes pieces of coffins and cribs with quotidian Bauhaus furniture.
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These cover vaults containing up to 24 coffins in which the newly deceased rest for two years.
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The city's Department of Corrections operates the cemetery, where inmates now bury about 1,000 coffins per year.
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Funerals were held for a second day on Monday, the victims' coffins draped in the Turkish flag.
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Costco had begun to sell coffins, and this was the closest I had ever been to one.
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The bottom line: Nearly every day, coffins of dead workers arrive at Nepal's international airport in Kathmandu.
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To their utter astonishment, the footage showed a secret tomb with numerous coffins stacked upon one another.
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The asymmetry in knowledge between undertaker and grief-stricken client allows ludicrous markups on things like coffins.
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He also threatened to send back in coffins anyone who tried to take the battle to Istanbul.
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Temporary structures in the stadium will shelter the coffins of players, staff and journalists during the wake.
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Caskets and coffins are something you'd never associate with grocery shopping Down Under, but that's just changed.
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The coffins are made of robust cardboard from the packaging industry (which the parent company is in).
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Diners at New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmedabad, India, literally eat their meals at tables scattered among coffins.
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Archaeologists unearthed 30 ancient coffins in a huge tomb in Egypt, the Egyptian government announced on Tuesday.
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"The coffins were actually quite spacious and had a lot more room than we expected," Hobbs said.
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And while other services use eight body bearers to carry coffins, the Marine Corps uses only six.
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Wealthy customers could afford bronze mummy fittings and elaborate coffins like some of those in the show.
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The lives of those in these coffins had ended so abruptly — how could mine simply go on?
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Some accounts on Instagram started tagging the White House in images featuring flag-draped coffins, for example.
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Sixty-six sets of remains were exhumed in 2013, and surveys detected about 2,000 coffins by 23.
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But many have also returned in coffins, and their faces are enshrined on martyr posters throughout Lebanon.
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What about all the Americans who have come back from wars with flags draped over their coffins?
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Now 22, I remember the fear, then the confident adults promising revenge, then the flag-draped coffins.
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The largest coffins are more than six feet long, the smallest no bigger than a shoe box.
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Earlier, mourners had packed Cairo's Virgin Mary and St Athanasius Church where Tawadros prayed over the wooden coffins.
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During one protest, coffins representing those killed were placed in a semi-circle outside of Oakland City Hall.
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I see several people holding up cardboard coffins painted with dead donkeys and "DNC" written on the top.
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Videos on social media showed old people lying in their coffins to stop officials from seizing the caskets.
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At the Hollywood Community Cemetery in Orange, floodwaters had caused three coffins to pop out of concrete vaults.
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Farmers protested outside the Fed in Washington, DC; car dealers sent coffins containing the keys of unsold cars.
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The cache of coffins was most likely hidden to keep tomb robbers away from them, according to Waziri.
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When construction began on a parking garage in 19353, ground-penetrating radar revealed the presence of 0005,27 coffins.
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Eleven coffins were lined up on Wednesday as mourning friends, relatives and locals gathered to remember the family.
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The Edhi Foundation has the largest network for the burial of dead bodies or unclaimed coffins in Pakistan.
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Centuries-old practice renewed But today such burials are rare, replaced by coffins or artificial concrete burial places.
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That same night, Holt is giving a report about a couple found decomposing in a pair of coffins.
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There have been reports of policemen hiding in coffins to catch gravediggers who are overcharging for burial plots.
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Most of the corpses recovered were taken to the stadium, where some 40 coffins were stacked on Monday.
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Mourners gathered at a sports center in the city, where 35 coffins were lined up by early Saturday.
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Archaeologists uncovered 30 ancient wooden coffins in Egypt's Asasif necropolis, where the ancient city of Thebes once stood.
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Archaeologists in Egypt just unearthed 30 ancient wooden coffins and opened them to reveal perfectly preserved mummies inside.
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Though some bodies have been relocated, bones and parts of coffins continue to wash into the tide regularly.
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At one point, contestants were blindfolded and told to guess which objects officials were placing inside their coffins.
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He is offering to provide free custom-made coffins for the people slain Sunday at First Baptist Church.
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Before sunset, soldiers and volunteers pressed forward to help the families carry the coffins out to the cemetery.
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The victims' coffins were sealed in Russia and returned to Poland within two weeks of the plane crash.
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In Jiangxi and some other parts of China, people buy their coffins and store them in their homes.
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Archaeologists have been surprised how well London's damp clay soil has preserved skeletonized remains and some wooden coffins.
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Many of us want pine box coffins, green burials or cremations with our ashes tossed in beautiful places.
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Elsewhere, demonstrators lay on the ground surrounded by 51 cardboard coffins, a recognition of this year's suicide toll.
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The radar bounced back with evidence of about 145 coffins, buried just a few feet beneath the surface.
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Though the walls in their tomb were bare, the coffins were embellished with beautiful hieroglyphics of the afterlife.
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Iranians gather around a vehicle carrying the coffins of slain major general Qassem Soleimani and others on Sunday.
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On Tuesday, images of grief-stricken parents clutching the coffins of their children were circulated on social media.
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Then their coffins get caught up in high-voltage wires, and the corpses are electrocuted back into life.
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The signs are all around us, from XXXL clothing sizes to supersize movie seats and even larger coffins.
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Incense was waved over the coffins, but there was so much weeping that prayers had to be paused.
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After the service at St. Sebastian, 22 coffins were taken to a freshly dug burial site near the church.
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Sisi and Coptic Pope Tawadros II led the funeral procession and the coffins were draped in the national flag.
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The coffins of several people who were killed during the eruption of Mount Fuego this past Sunday in Guatemala.
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That same week, demonstrators showed up at Navarro's office in Iquitos carrying coffins, one of them bearing his name.
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Image: Lassithi Ephorate of AntiquitiesThe two clay burial coffins, called larnakes, were in excellent condition, and embossed with ornamentations.
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Some of the mummies were found wrapped in linen while others were placed in stone coffins or wooden sarcophagi.
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It also fills a gap in the museum's collection of coffins between earlier Ptolemaic examples and later Roman ones.
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Polish prosecutors last year ordered the coffins of crash victims to be reopened to check for traces of explosives.
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The prime minister, K.P. Sharma Oli, laid garlands of marigold on the white and red coffins, one by one.
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Archaeologists have uncovered 20 ancient wooden coffins in Egypt's Asasif necropolis, where the ancient city of Thebes once stood.
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The coffins are separated from diners by white metal fences, and are cleaned and adorned with fresh flowers daily.
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The coffins are estimated to be 3,000 years old, far older than most other ancient relics in the area.
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Based on the engravings and inscriptions, archaeologists think the coffins were for children and priests — both men and women.
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The United States military has already moved coffins and American flags to Panmunjom in anticipation of receiving the remains.
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One by one, they came to the front of the sanctuary and quietly saluted the two simple wooden coffins.
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Before the ceremony, Mr. Mattarella spoke to the families of the victims, huddled along a line of dark coffins.
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You've also got fewer options in areas you might not notice, such as pet food, peanut butter, and coffins.
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One involved taking pictures of coffins for a catalog; another involved squeegeeing photographic prints for The New York Times.
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While the Afghan government does not publicly disclose exact casualty figures, the coffins are still coming home to villages.
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The wooden coffins will be given their own exhibit at the Grand Egyptian Museum, to open next year (CNN).
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Eco-friendly burials are not necessarily cheaper, but consumers may save on coffins, grave lining costs and funeral fees.
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Couples linked for eternity by matrimony stand before what look like twin coffins, continuing their quarrels into the afterlife.
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Lucretia Coffin and James Mott were married in 1811 in Philadelphia, where the Coffins had moved two years earlier.
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Soldiers stood by the 13 flag-draped coffins holding pictures of the fallen men, who were from four regiments.
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On Thursday afternoon, thousands of people marched carrying the coffins of five protesters from El Alto to La Paz.
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The research teams also studied miniature boxwood coffins, statuettes, skulls, altarpieces and boxes in the shape of pea pods.
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Army veterans of both World Wars fought until 1979 for the simple right to a flag on their coffins.
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Coffins buried in shallow graves are vulnerable to floods, said Lashon Proctor, who owns Proctor's Mortuary in Beaumont, Tex.
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Over 70 surprisingly intact, plain wood coffins were unearthed this February, having possibly been protected by dense clay soil.
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Victims' relatives sit beside their coffins in Chimanimani, as they wait for transport to the grave site on March 18.
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There was no doubt about it: Vampires, asleep in their coffins for as long as we let them, were back.
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It's not anger that I feel when I see one of these flexible coffins, just bafflement and a little despair.
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Still, Mr Masuda laments that plywood coffins from China can cost just a third as much as his cardboard ones.
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A few are being brought back in coffins to be buried beneath their home town, spared the sight of destruction.
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Serviceable in Northern Ireland, they became "mobile coffins" in Iraq because of their lack of resistance to improvised explosive devices.
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Community members, dressed in everyday clothing, served as pallbearers, carrying the coffins to the wake and finally, to the graves.
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Instead of moving the graves, the owner decided to simply build his restaurant around them, scattering tables next to coffins.
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To symbolize their view of the party, Mr. Taylor said, "we plan on marching coffins down Broad Street every day."
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"It shocked me, because, maybe for the first time, they decided to show pictures of the coffins," Ferrara told me.
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The countryside is green in the way of certain deserts, but empty coffins litter the road, along with a corpse.
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A haunting video posted by the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero on Sunday showed coffins lined up in a Bergamo church.
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But when we think of end-of-life services, most of us still think of the traditional coffins and hearses.
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Around the time the coffins were being prepared, a German chartered flight landed here, bringing 2340 Afghan migrants back home.
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"The tomb is made up of a central lobby, and a burial room with two stone coffins," Mr. Waziri said.
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A video posted by the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero on Sunday also showed coffins lined up in a Bergamo church.
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Ovitz bought every piece in the show except several coffins, which Ruby said were a play on Minimalism and confinement.
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Another post on the page from September of last year depicts rows of military coffins draped in the American flag.
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But Paa Joe is now located miles away from Ghana's capital and says there is less demand for his coffins.
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The shock of repeatedly seeing such devastating injuries can affect someone's psyche far more than flag-draped coffins, psychologists say.
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With the help of volunteers, they used planks from a fallen white oak in the park to carefully fashion coffins.
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The smallest of the coffins, designed for the bodies of babies, are decorated with felt butterflies, daisies, stars and hearts.
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The volunteers in Rotorua, located south-east of Auckland, usually make coffins for New Zealand families who can't afford them.
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The owner of a downtown workshop that makes custom coffins picked up art supplies in the middle of the night.
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Families and relatives of the victims threw themselves on the coffins as they arrived and kissed pictures of loved ones.
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Nine coffins rest side by side at the front of a church in Pikangikum First Nation reserve in northern Ontario.
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Witnesses said they heard the drones and saw plumes of smoke before seeing 20 makeshift coffins moved out of the area.
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The music stopped temporarily as band members ran to comfort bereaved relatives who lunged forward, wailing to grieve over the coffins.
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A line of battered orange and white taxis wound their way around central Baghdad, little wooden coffins tied to their roofs.
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It is the first cache of coffins to be discovered by an Egyptian mission, after years of foreign-led archeological digs.
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At a recent campaign appearance, Mr Erdogan warned that Australians hostile to Islam would "return in coffins" if they visited Turkey.
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These agents thrust themselves upon relatives of the deceased, often showing up at home offering help with documents, coffins and arrangements.
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Back in 21877, construction workers uncovered 26 coffins on the campus—but this proved to be the tip of the iceberg.
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The discovery of these 7,000-or-so coffins must have come as quite a shock to the university and its students.
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During the interrogators' downtime, Zubaydah was left strapped with a cloth over his face, or locked in one of the coffins.
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LEONARD FINEGOLD Media, Pennsylvania When I was a criminal investigator I participated in 20 exhumations of coffins buried in concrete vaults.
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The 30 lead coffins have been left undisturbed, so we may never know the identity of the dozens who remain unidentified.
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The caskets of 11 further victims also contained body parts of others, prosecutors said after examining 24 coffins from the crash.
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That's a tad high for urns, which range from $80 to $2,000; coffins, however, can range between $2,000 and $23,000. h2.
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Families and relatives of the victims threw themselves on the coffins as they arrived and kissed pictures of their loved ones.
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It's because Costco, a big box U.S. supermarket chain, has started selling coffins and caskets in some of its Australian stores.
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This oligopolistic corner of the economy includes niche concerns—dog food, batteries and coffins—but also telecoms, pharmacies and credit cards.
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Her entire body was covered in a thick layer of resin, wrapped in linen bandages, and buried inside three nesting coffins.
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Pallbearers lowered into the ground three simple wooden coffins built by family members and adorned with white, red and orange flowers.
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The pairs said that the coffins were more comfortable than they expected and that they'd probably participate in the challenge again.
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They also had to lie in the coffins with the lids open the whole time, which came with its own challenges.
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There is a long waiting list for burials, and coffins were stacking up at two hospital morgues and a cemetery morgue.
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Videos posted on social media showed the police raiding houses, excavators crushing piles of empty coffins and workers dismantling elaborate tombs.
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The disclosure by the transport ministry came as a procession of empty coffins made their way to a churchyard in Ethiopia.
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In Bergamo, the part of Italy worst affected by the coronavirus outbreak, coffins are overflowing local facilities, The Washington Post reported.
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Ms. Cunningham discussed alternatives to embalming — which involves toxic chemicals — and coffins made of wool or other materials that decompose easily.
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Still, before the first coffins are laid into the ground here, others said they were doing what they could to prepare.
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In response, he wrote a song called "Coffins for Head of State," which Abijako referenced in the name of his line.
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An honor guard — active service members in dress uniforms — conducted the ritual folding of the American flags taken off the coffins.
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They were in flying coffins as a result of Boeing deciding that it was going to conceal MCAS from the pilots.
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After majoring in Egyptology at Leiden University, Dr. Willems earned a Ph.D. at the University of Groningen, studying Middle Kingdom coffins.
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" Opera production: "Ercole Amante," by Francesco Cavalli (2009) Price: 50 euros "There's a scene in which one of the principals goes to the graveyard and the set was a kind of 'Thriller' moment from Michael Jackson where all these mummies came out of the coffins and performed this baroque dance number and then go back into their coffins.
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The soldier will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery later this year in coffins built from a downed tree from the battlefield.
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What had been looking like the final nail in the Capitals' coffins turned, potentially, into the moment the Capitals finally became President.
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People are carried in coffins by relatives during the annual "Procession of the Shrouds" to celebrate St. Martha in Spain, July 29.
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When Doc arrives to retrieve his son's body, Sal comments grumpily on the new policy prohibiting photographs of the flag-draped coffins.
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Incredibly, one of these coffins had a gold crown on top of it—a Mitre signifying the buried remains of an archbishop.
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So far, Egyptian officials say they found eight mummies, ten sarcophagi, which are ancient coffins, hundreds of statues and skeletons and paintings.
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Didlake envisions historians, archeologists and anthropologists combing through the coffins, learning more about the patients and the mental institution where they died.
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Coffins arrived with the bodies of soldiers who went unidentified, referred to only as "defenders of the shrines" of the Shiite saints.
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The shrouded bodies were removed from the coffins and placed in a row of unmarked graves that had been dug on Friday.
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Four years ago, when one city in neighboring Anhui Province began seizing coffins, six older people killed themselves, The Beijing News reported.
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Stacked horizontally in rows, they look like coffins awaiting burial, or crates ready for shipment, and they are, indeed, available for distribution.
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Coffins bearing deceased parishioners no longer leave one at a time in a shiny hearse after a funeral every week or so.
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New acquisitions include Ghanaian carved coffins, First Nations moccasins embroidered with a Nike motif, and a plethora of East Indian advertising materials.
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More soldiers held back a mob gathered on a central St. Petersburg parade ground, where five coffins waited behind a black scaffold.
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After the coffins returned to the church, their occupants stepped out, shook their heavy limbs and wiped away the sweat and tears.
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But what could any of this — men, coffins, journeys — possibly mean to these creatures, to whom nothing was required to mean anything?
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Protesters carrying the coffins with some of the dead were dispersed with tear gas on Thursday as they neared the presidential palace.
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All three returned home last year in coffins, borne up to a cemetery high above their mountainside village of mud and stone.
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On Sunday, empty coffins made their way into the churchyard on black vans while women beat their chests and screamed in anguish.
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But if god exists, Donald Trump's ugliest son making impossible claims about his WOD times will eventually turn Crossfit boxes into coffins.
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A construction crew working on a new building in Philadelphia on Thursday uncovered dozens of coffins buried 6 feet below a parking lot.
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U.S. military moves 100 coffins to North Korean border ahead of expected return of U.S. soldier remains; international security expert Jim Walsh reacts.
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Service members line up respectfully near coffins and military air transport during services for their dead comrades at Tan Son Nhut Air Base.
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For our bout of endangerment in the coffins, my husband and I paid little more than the price of a fussy restaurant dinner.
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The coffins were sealed, stacked on top of each other and arranged in two rows about three feet below the sand, he said.
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They could change the furniture, put up antique wallpaper, plant palms, sleep in their coffins and keep any sort of child or pet.
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A century and a half later the poor and unclaimed are still buried in pine coffins, usually marked only with numbers, not names.
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The Odd Fellows room houses 2 skeletons in their original coffins, which were once used in very old, very bizarre Odd Fellows rituals.
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"It is also no less important that the bodies were put in the coffins in the presence of the Polish side," she said.
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Banks of the white flowers, the traditional colour of mourning, were placed in front of a row of empty coffins at the ceremony.
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Relatives of victims of the violence walked down the main streets of Managua on Monday with their coffins, demanding justice for the dead.
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The only clear moment is that at one point Kellyanne explicitly links Pence's NFL protest to the flag-draped coffins of dead soldiers.
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Fine details like scales, skin pigments, and soft tissue are frozen in these amber coffins, providing an unprecedented glimpse of a bygone ecosystem.
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Syria's foreign minister warned on Saturday that Damascus would resist any ground incursion into its territory and send the aggressors home in coffins.
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The coffins will be restored and displayed at the Grand Egyptian Museum, which is due to open near the Giza pyramids next year.
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Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California, hosted its own version of the couples coffin challenge, this time without shared, extra-wide coffins.
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As news crews descended on the island, the coffins were laid out in an airplane hangar and topped with roses and Teddy bears.
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While there, he attended transfer ceremonies in which the coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers were loaded onto transport planes to be sent home.
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Over the weekend, trucks from the Italian army were seen transporting coffins from there to other regions because local crematories can't keep up.
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He used it to convey the coffins of seven firefighters who died during the terror attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept.
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This year, the village church charged for the first time for renting coffins, 100 euros for each coffin, which the priest, the Rev.
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"We carried 200 coffins symbolizing the genocide and deaths of indigenous peoples at the hands of the authorities allied to agribusiness," Guajajara said.
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New York City embraced willful amnesia when landscapers working at the western edge of Central Park unearthed two coffins in August of 1871.
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Carefully take the bowls and plates out to the balcony, cover the coffins with lids, stretch some plastic wrap over them, and wait.
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In a slow-moving motorcade, relatives, army officers and police officials delivered the coffins of two police special forces officers to the airport.
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It would also appear that their coffins came furnished with a great assortment of musical instruments, including fiddles, guitars, banjos, tambourines and harmonicas.
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Making fantasy coffins is a serious business in Ghana, says Joseph Ashong (better known as Paa Joe), a prominent practitioner of the craft.
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A fantasy coffin maker can make 1003 or 8 coffins in a month when business is good, especially in the Central Accra region.
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By the mass graves — which hold coffins for up to 150 adults or 1,000 babies — anonymous white markers stand in lieu of headstones.
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The coffins inside the funeral home proved too much to bear for the relatives who filed in on Monday under an ominous sky.
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Banks of the white flowers, the traditional color of mourning, were placed in front of a row of empty coffins at the ceremony.
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The report includes an image of an infant mass grave that was exposed long enough for plants to grow through the small coffins.
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Though the government has not provided an estimate of how old the coffins might be, the necropolis is home to tombs dating as far back as Egypt's 18th dynasty, which began around 1540 BC.In a tweet on Tuesday, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities said that the coffins were "intact and sealed" and that it would announce more details on Saturday.
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The U.S. military has said it has moved 100 wooden coffins to the inter-Korean border to prepare for the return of the remains.
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Coffins were lined up nearby awaiting bodies being pulled from the vessel, which lay belly up in the water just meters from the shoreline.
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The farmer, as it turns out, had stumbled upon a Late Minoan era tomb containing a pair of coffins, each containing a single skeleton.
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The coffins were part of an escape game called "Boxed Up," hosted by a venue in Brooklyn that offers a variety of such amusements.
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At one ceremony in the Sadr City neighborhood, coffins draped with Iraqi flags were driven down the street, followed by a procession of mourners.
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Ms. Carvaly and Ms. Doughty have conducted cremations in which customers decorated cremation coffins and sometimes even pushed a button to start the cremation.
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Their coffins were draped with taegukgi, and shops in the city are said to have run out of flags ahead of the mass funeral.
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Kam Air employees stand over their colleagues' coffins, Ukrainian employees of the Afghan airline, at a ceremony at the Kabul International Airport on Jan.
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The U.S. forces brought some 100 wooden coffins into the DMZ last month, which will be used to transport the remains, according to Yonhap.
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Four days a week eight inmates from Rikers, New York's biggest jail, travel to the island to dig graves and lower coffins into them.
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DNA testing here in the U.S. mainland to ty and determine the identity of all those in these coffins that you are seeing now.
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More recent work involving underground radar unveiled at least 20 acres worth of coffins on medical center ground, according to the Clarion-Ledger newspaper.
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Stagnant wages and the financial crisis of 2008 appear to have accelerated the flames: people who'd lost their homes could hardly afford mahogany coffins.
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Ugandan activists are protesting a spate of kidnappings and murders in the country by dumping coffins outside the country's parliament building.
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Attorney: 'They are death traps and sinking coffins' Duck boats travel on both land and water and are popular among tourists in major cities.
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Though the Thompsons have begun digitizing their files, most remain stowed away in ledgers that pile knee-high behind a stock of reserve coffins.
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Side-by-side photographs of the two women in their coffins suggest they were roughly the same age and size, with similar dark complexions.
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The letter asked who was profiting under such a scheme, and what compensation would be offered for people whose coffins were confiscated and destroyed.
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In some of the bigger tombs I visited people were often sleeping on top of raised coffins which still had human skeletons in them.
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Now, because of the coronavirus outbreak, clusters of coffins arrive every day and are laid on the cold marble floor of St. Joseph's Church.
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The museum has an impressive narrative of the railway covering the walls with facts like how P.O.W.s secreted details of their ordeal in coffins.
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There are also coffins in the familiar curvy Egyptian shape made of cheap wood for those seeking an economy-class ride to the afterlife.
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Under President George H.W. Bush, the Defense Department instituted a ban against photographing flag-draped coffins returning from the Persian Gulf war in 1991.
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Referring to a "manifesto" posted online by the attacker, he said Turkey will return "in coffins" anyone who tried to take the battle to Istanbul.
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Screams and wailing were heard throughout the Pope's talk and as the coffins were taken to the funeral procession to be led by el-Sisi.
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Two: ten years ago I would have thought the sight of German coffins coming back from Afghanistan would cause a hell of a political battle.
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On November 22016, thousands of protesters marched through Kabul with coffins containing the decapitated bodies of seven Hazaras, four men, two women and one child.
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Because if you were gonna show coffins coming home now… When you're showing a video game, I felt that was a little bit of trickery.
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They say things like this while millions of us industriously assemble IKEA coffins to prepare for the environmental catastrophe we had little to do with.
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Next to the temple, 2000 mummified specimens — from hulking monsters to teacup versions — are enshrined in a dim museum, along with their croc-shaped coffins.
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With crossed arms and solemn faces, family and friends congregated up and down the street where the coffins lay, their faces stricken and postures resigned.
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On the other side of the country, participants prepared themselves for a similar challenge that involved standing up in separate coffins for 30 hours straight
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Well-wishers reached out to touch the coffins as they passed and stepped in to lift the load from the bearers when the procession paused.
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Then, as the Warsaw ghetto was annihilated, the efforts involved literal escapes, the dwindling few sometimes being smuggled out amid dirty linen or in coffins.
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Both her grandparents were buried, she said in an interview, and she thought it seemed wrong to put their bodies in coffins encased in concrete.
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While these archives — cold and dark, with their shrouds and cardboard ''coffins'' — may resemble repositories for the dead, the pieces cataloged inside are anything but.
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Meanwhile, Iran swarms ships in the Persian Gulf, fires rockets near American forces, "paints" U.S. military aircraft as targets and issues propaganda showing American coffins.
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Before he decided to deploy 143,000 troops to Afghanistan, Mr. Obama traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to greet the coffins of troops.
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Behind a hospital, "relatives and friends showed me their loved ones, opening many of the coffins that had been placed in rows," Mr. Hinzpeter wrote.
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Keep an eye out for funerary statues, architectural pieces, painted wooden coffins, and jewelry in The Artifact Lab, and follow along on the department's blog.
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The first coffins carried out were those of the three Ukrainian pilots — Aleksei Naumkin, Vladimir Gaponenko and Sergei Khomenko — who died along with their passengers.
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According to a press release, GeoView technicians found coffins buried 3 to 5 feet deep on the southern edge of the King High School campus.
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Remains of an Assyrian winged bull statue, some carved stone coffins, mosaics and two black blocks with Islamic calligraphy are just about all that's left.
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And the war gets full-color special-effects treatment in scenes of flaming trucks, burning bodies and flag-draped coffins stacked up like Christmas gifts.
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Terry said that once people finish creating their own coffins at the club, they often build others for charity, or return to help other members.
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That's why big investors have flooded in with price comparison sites that claim customers could save $1,000 by buying coffins or booking funeral services online.
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The burial ground included sarcophagi made of limestone and clay, animal coffins, and papyrus with Demotic script, not the hieroglyphs found in earlier Egyptian tombs.
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"Today, there was even a shortage of coffins," said Ibrahim Khairandish, a member of the provincial council in Balkh Province, where the attack took place.
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At the moment, those who have become infected, seeing others go into clinics alive only to leave in coffins, are understandably reluctant to follow suit.
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Gripped by grief, relatives placed their hands on the coffins — the child's draped in pink cloth — as a funeral director, Nadezhda Monzhorova, recited a farewell.
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He said his company worked with gravediggers to quickly rebury dozens of exposed coffins in cities and towns along Interstate 10, which runs through Beaumont.
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He was taken past coffins that lay on the dusty ground, through throngs of relatives still waiting for the bodies of their drowned loved ones.
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Gravediggers placed a thick cap of soil over these coffins, likely to quell the stench of death and contain the "miasma" thought to transmit disease.
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For instance, the cast-iron Fisk coffins, patented in 1848 by Almond Fisk, have preserved flesh, bones, and clothing, sometimes as if they were mummified.
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IZMIR, Turkey — City workers shoveled dirt over the two coffins, one at a time, as an imam, in plaintive and meditative tones, sang prayers in Arabic.
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Prime Minister K.P. Oli paid tributes to victims by placing marigold garlands on the wooden coffins which were then handed over to the relatives for funerals.
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The coffins each held a single male skeleton, the identities of which aren't known, but the quality of the pottery suggest they were high-status individuals.
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Coffins which were carved with the hands open meant they were female, while if the hands were balled into fists, they held males, according to Waziri.
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The bodies were delivered back to Santa María, prompting officials to ask their counterparts in San Mateo to allow a shipment of coffins through the blockade.
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A memorial would be created to commemorate the remains, along with a visitor's center and a lab where the bodies, clothing, and coffins will be analyzed.
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Following Saudi Arabia's announcement, Syria's foreign minister said on Saturday Damascus would resist any ground incursion into its territory and send the aggressors home "in coffins".
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On average, Scientia's coffins and caskets, which are manufactured locally, cost about 45 to 50 percent less than one you would purchase from a funeral service.
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U.S. military officials said they moved 100 coffins to the Demilitarized Zone earlier on Saturday to prepare for North Korea's return of the remains, CNN reported.
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This year brought spring floods and, last month, the disastrous flooding across the southern part of the state, unburying hundreds of coffins from about 50 cemeteries.
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Crouch told Insider the coffin was "more comfortable" than she expected, likely because participants were able to deck out their coffins with a few personal items.
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"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven — dead, morti," Mr. Dalvit said, showing photographs on his cellphone, ending with an image of a row of coffins.
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After Carminati and Crotti blessed the latest batch of coffins on Saturday, army troops in protective gear loaded them onto five trucks covered by camouflaged tarps.
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The remains of Sergeants Gutierrez and Rodriguez arrived in the rain late on a Monday night, their coffins met by a somber president and distraught families.
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Instead, they meet with other retired friends each Tuesday at a disused sports center to build coffins, a hobby that has gathered followers across New Zealand.
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Coffins were lined up on the quay of the small port of Lampedusa as a coastguard ship entered harbor on Monday, bringing the bodies to shore.
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Anzelmo-Sarles said the Manassas staff's work on the period-style coffins -- which were inserted inside government-issued caskets for burial -- was a labor of love.
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On Tuesday, their family held a joint funeral, the coffins of a mother, father, their two young daughters and infant son lined up in a row.
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Yet it also celebrates the beloved dead, while the poet momentarily questions his own assertions, only to reassert the obvious explicitness of the reality: Allegorical coffins!
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On the afternoon of Saturday, October 13, six brave contestants will snuggle up in "slightly used" coffins (whatever that means), according to the amusement park's contest announcement.
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His gouache-on-paper series Human States contains images suggesting burial or coffins, and was prompted by the Iraqi purges of the Kurds in the early 1970s.
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Mourners laid flowers and wept as they filed past closed coffins, set out on a public square in the center of the small city of 146,000 people.
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The remains of 10 Chinese soldiers who fought alongside North Korean forces in the Korean War were put in coffins ahead of their planned repatriation to China.
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Luckily for her and Ms. Carvaly, California is not among the states that require funeral homes to be outfitted with rooms for embalming bodies and displaying coffins.
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The coffins have been made to magnify the solitary theme of the movie, which centers around a spaceship carrying settlers to Mars when it's knocked off course.
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To make effective use of space, the community uses shrouds instead of wood coffins, digs out the remains after about two years once the body is decomposed.
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In Mount Selinda, villagers use bamboo in place of timber for a range of wood products, from household furniture and cooking utensils to toothpicks and even coffins.
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The day boasts $13 tattoos, most with the number 133 worked into them somehow, or some other appropriately spooky theme—black cats, blood, coffins, a hockey mask.
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I realized that I couldn't remember precisely how many friends wound up in flag-draped coffins, but that more had died by suicide than from enemy action.
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After Katrina, the state legislature passed a law requiring all coffins to be tagged with some form of identification, but the law laid out no enforcement mechanisms.
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The coffins are part of a series of findings archaeologists have made since they began researching areas around the modern-day city of Luxor in December 2017.
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After school, Mr. Thompson would pick up his daughters in a stately black hearse and drive them to Woodward to do their homework amid rows of coffins.
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A local news channel was playing, and the police chief of a small flooded Louisiana city was talking of the coffins that had floated up from graveyards.
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The opening of three Egyptian sarcophagi, or stone coffins, shown live on an American reality-TV program, created a sensation on some social-media and news outlets.
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As the caravan carrying 64 coffins made its way down the streets of the Colombian city, crowds cheered "Let's Go Chape" and waved goodbye with white flags.
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A military guard of honor and brief prayer took place at Medellin's airport as the coffins were brought onto the tarmac to be loaded onto the aircraft.
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Theatrics and props, such as empty coffins and tombstones, had been weapons of choice in the group's protests before—they rapidly communicated messages and were media magnets.
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Nine post-mortems conducted by Poland before 2016 and showed that six bodies were in coffins that did not bear their names, officials said at the time.
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Cemetery workers and family members lowered coffins three-deep into trenches lined with gray cinderblocks and brown bricks, covering each coffin with concrete like a layer cake.
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This can be something as simple as burying the dead in body bags placed inside coffins, instead of placing victims into a grave in just body bags.
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But the movie reflected Mr. Lucas's account of coffins arriving at military bases in the United States, where confederates retrieved the heroin and moved it to Harlem.
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Fund-raisers known as cake walks — a variation on musical chairs — pay for coffins, support people through chemotherapy and send whole basketball teams to the Lower 48.
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As Italy's death toll from the coronavirus grows, images from March 2020 do similarly show long rows of coffins holding people who have died from Covid-19.
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The archaeologists went on to recover painted coffins and wooden figurines that survived the raid and sent them to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 210.
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Funeral homes, used to handling the elderly, are preparing tiny coffins for the bodies of young children and babies, with many offering their services at no charge.
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Sure, in the age of global corporate media and cross-platform branding, fandom is a cradle-to-grave commodity lifestyle, from "Star Wars" onesies to superhero coffins.
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A truck carrying Soleimani's body — and that of the Iraqi Shiite militia commander who was killed with him — toured Baghdad before the coffins were transported to Iran.
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At a funeral for the Warraich family, Osama's mother was seen waving at the coffins and weeping: "Let me say goodbye to my kids one more time".
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No need to poison the food chain with formaldehyde, increase the carbon footprint with manufacture of elaborate coffins, mausoleums or wasting of the organic proteins with incinerators.
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Even way back in 2014, the foreign minister of the Marshall Islands told Motherboard that rising sea levels were destroying homes and washing away coffins and skeletons.
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While Acid Witch is all about the Eighties, Electric Wizard is pure Seventies horror, full of satin-lined coffins and Lovecraftian rituals viewed through billowing candle smoke.
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"If soldiers start coming home in coffins, it's debatable whether Sajjan could give a coherent explanation of why Canada was there in the first place," said the diplomat.
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Hyde notes that Curious and Curiouser also explores the glass coffins that were marketed in the early 20th century by the American Glass Casket Company in Ada, Oklahoma.
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PALLBEARERS bearing coffins scrawled with the legend "No+AFP" joined tens of thousands of Chileans in Santiago on August 25.4st to protest against the country's privatised pension system.
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The parties were spinning out of control, and Alig pushed the fantasy to grotesque extremes: glass coffins stuffed with "dead" partiers, buckets of blood, everyone in dead drag.
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According to South Korean media, U.S. forces brought about 100 wooden coffins into the Demilitarized Zone between the Koreas last month to prepare for the handover of remains.
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If coffins and death don't put you off, a visit to a collection of anatomical anomalies and medical malformations put together in the 1800s may be for you.
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Later in the evening, protest leaders argued around a candlelight vigil over whether to bury the dead or display their coffins at a protest in the coming days.
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AL QAA, Lebanon — The mourners packed the vast hall behind the Mar Elias Church and crowded around five white coffins, some clutching flowers or photographs of the dead.
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While the crisis is set to drive the coffins' popularity at home, Blanchard, who runs an environmental non-governmental organization, hopes the trend will also raise ecological consciousness.
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In one New York federal case, an antiquities dealer in 2012 admitted smuggling ancient coffins and funerary items worth $2.5 million into the United States using false documents.
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Outside the ceremony, more than two dozen people protested, carrying white crosses and black coffins in remembrance of the 17 people killed this year by Phoenix police officers.
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The Italian Army is ferrying coffins from the northern Italian city of Bergamo to remote cremation sites because local morgues can't cope with the surging coronavirus death toll.
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Suddenly, me and my coworker and partner in death Harry were at work, unboxing the tiny coffins and reading the instructions attached with lots of skulls and crossbones.
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There is now a waiting list for burials there, and coffins of the deceased awaiting services have overflowed two hospital morgues and a cemetery morgue, The Post reported.
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"Authorities didn't know where to put the coffins," said Carminati, 64, the senior priest in Seriate, a tranquil, middle-class riverside town of 25,000 people in northern Italy.
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Then, on March 28.3, Bergamo's shot up so rapidly that the Italian Army was later sent in to ferry coffins away from overwhelmed morgues to remote cremation sites.
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Coffins were lined up on the quay of the small port of Lampedusa as a coast guard ship entered the harbor on Monday, bringing the bodies to shore.
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Two dozen military veterans filed into the funeral home, which has held about 100 free services for unclaimed veterans and has donated coffins and transported bodies to Calverton.
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Relatives of victims picked up coffins from the morgue, including that of police Senior Sergeant Major Chatchawal Thaengthong, who was among the first to respond to the shooting.
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They call themselves "fantasy" coffin makers and they make coffins that are anything but ordinary, producing caskets in the form of ships, buildings, animals, cars and much more.
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The coffins are buried 3-5 feet deep in about an acre of open land, and near a small building used by school's agricultural program, the district said.
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With mortuaries overflowing, the pews of the crematorium church have been removed to leave space to lay out scores of coffins but more have been arriving every day.
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Bones from several bodies have often been jumbled together: The total of 21950 coffins delivered in the 2100s turned out to include remains from at least 400 people.
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A band - some of the musicians in tears - temporarily stopped playing as band members ran to comfort bereaved relatives who lunged forward, wailing in grief over the coffins.
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Francis listened intently as three speakers read Bonetti's meditations about migrants being set on fire, dying in the desert or drowning at sea and ending up in nameless coffins.
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Historians say the coffins were part of the First Baptist Church burial ground established in 1707 in the historic part of the city on what is now Arch Street.
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Thousands of grieving families stood by green-draped coffins in sweltering mid-summer heat, some kneeling, crying and hugging the caskets before they were lowered into freshly-dug graves.
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"It will mean transforming our cities, notably Istanbul, into graveyards and result in coffins emerging from our homes," said Cemal Gokce, the chairman of the Chamber of Civil Engineers.
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You didn't ask for a reboot of Fear Factor, the terrifying early-2000s reality show in which people frequently lay in coffins full of rats and roaches or whatever??
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Check out their side of the split below (the Coffins side rips, too), and keep an eye out for the etched vinyl version, now available for preorder from Relapse.
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By lunchtime on Sunday, a funeral was underway for the slain officers, who were honored with flag-draped coffins at a service attended by the interior minister, Maj. Gen.
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The cemetery here was certainly in need of recovery: coffins were strewn about, floodwater-filled graves sat empty and there was no way to tell which coffin went where.
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The family looked in a nearby trailer park and the surrounding woods, and found about 15 coffins and vaults before finally discovering the one they believed to be his.
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To make things worse, their coffins were on an incline instead of flat on the ground, which meant they had to sort of stand for the full 30 hours.
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Three hundred bio-coffins can be made with the number of trees required to build a single wooden coffin and require about half the amount of fuel during cremation.
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The coffins won't actually be buried beneath the ground — but after lying in a box for 30 hours with the lid closed, you may begin to feel like it.
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Wooden coffins, most with a picture of a child, were taken by cars and carried by pall bearers to a graveyard from a square where prayers were held earlier.
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Chantal, who is Canadian, decided to talk to her 59,000 subscribers about the cheese she sculptured into tomb stones and coffins, then launched into a story about a cult.
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Lying in their coffins, some devotees used an umbrella to protect their faces from the beating sun while others cooled themselves down with a hand or small electric fan.
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Hassan Rouhani, and Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani, the newly appointed commander of the country's Quds Force, pray near the coffins of Gen.
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Eight decades after the killings, nine small coffins with imperial insignia were flown to the "cradle of the revolution," which by then had regained its original name, St. Petersburg.
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Luc was technically an entomologist, but his latest idea was a venture called Nature's Caskets: coffins made out of reclaimed wood from forests devastated by the mountain-pine beetle.
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The porcelain dishes, the silk dresses, the fur coats, the sewing machines, and the jewelry were gone, often hidden in the ground: buried in jars, chests, and even coffins.
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But the most searing images were the two tiny white coffins, one only slightly larger than a bassinet, and the two little girls in white gowns who lay inside them.
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The supernatural elements are creepy, yes: Horror-movie staples like scary dolls, creepy old houses, coffins, geysers of blood, and gruesome visions of dead people are all here in droves.
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The coffins covered in green cloth were lined up at a memorial center and new burial pits were dug at the massive graveyard that already holds 6,575 victims found previously.
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The ancient Egyptian artifact, along with three other wooden coffins containing full-bodied mummies, were acquired sometime around the year 1860 by Charles Nicholson, a former chancellor of Sydney University.
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On October 13, six people at the theme park in St. Louis will lie in separate 2-foot-by-seven-foot "slightly used" coffins for the chance to win $300.
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As they opened the pyramids, archaeologists presented late-period mummies, masks, tools and coffins discovered during excavations that began near the Dahshur pyramids last year and are due to continue.
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French oak producers have traditionally sold oak logs to the mills, which then cut them into lumber for making products ranging from floors and furniture to coffins and wine barrels.
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There's a new "Messiah" in Ilkeston, England, and she's been known to jump on top of coffins, bravely tiptoe across church organ pipes and occasionally yowl during weddings and baptisms.
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A Palermo court has opened an investigation into the incident, prosecutor Maurizio Scalia told Reuters from the port, where the bodies were taken off the Siem Pilot in brown coffins.
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Inside, the story was even worse: medicine stolen and sold on the black market, criminals hastening the deaths of patients so they could charge families a commission on their coffins.
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This means coffins are made of locally sourced wood or cardboard, and tombstones will be replaced by wooden grave markers, which the city will provide and renew every 10 years.
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In pen, pencil and watercolor, they added drawings of heaving whales in their death throes dragging boats, bleeding whale carcasses being torn apart and seamen's coffins lowered into the ocean.
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Don't be afraid to enter the room filled with seven coffins: inside each one is a display explaining how different cultures and religions say goodbye to and bury their dead.
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About 17 coffins sat there as the armed men lingered, some shouting "Death to Dostum!" and "Long Live Emir Habibullah Kalakani," who has been dead for more than 80 years.
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As people wait for the coffins to be brought out for burial, a hush falls over the crowd and it is quiet except for the sound of people weeping softly.
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This is who he is at his core: an attention-seeking, action-averse propagandist who is terrified of accountability in the form of coffins arriving at Dover Air Force Base.
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As the coffins arrived from the morgue, one senior official with Kam Air took a sweeping look across the domestic terminal, pointing out the parked planes that now lacked pilots.
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On Saturday, the United States military in South Korea said it had moved 100 wooden coffins and American flags to the border with North Korea to prepare for the repatriation.
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Outside of the Friday Prayer venue, on Enghelab, or Revolution Street, mourners gathered around trucks using trailers to carrying the coffins of some of those who died in Wednesday's attacks.
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Of the nearly 200 artworks on view, only three are by Paa Joe, a Ghanaian craftsman of vernacular coffins; none of his sculptures at the School would accommodate a corpse.
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With President Volodymyr Zelenskiy looking on, coffins draped in the Ukrainian flag were carried one by one from a Ukrainian military plane to a waiting hearse at Kiev's Boryspil airport.
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The coffins of Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was also killed in the strike, were passed across the heads of mourners chanting "Death to America".
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A line of wooden coffins borne by Boy Scouts, and marked with the word "martyr," filed through the doors of an ancient monastery on the outskirts of Alexandria on Monday.
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New York was where most of the surviving troops returned in 1919 and where, two years later, thousands of coffins were unloaded to be reburied in hometowns across the country.
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"The Ga community, to which I belong, believe in the afterlife and they believe also that the coffins I make will deliver them to this new beginning," he tells CNN.
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It was not just the swift execution of the movement's leaders, which historians often point to as a defining moment, but the burial of their bodies in quicklime without coffins.
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A state funeral for the victims will take place in Genoa on Saturday, officials said, as the coffins of some of the dead were laid out in a hospital chapel.
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In 1998, Regeneración members organized a funeral parade of cardboard coffins at MacArthur Park to protest the Mexican government's massacre of 45 indigenous Zapatista members in the state of Chiapas.
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Hawkins took his style cues from Dracula and voodoo stereotypes, with a trademark cape, slick hair, and stage props that included coffins, rubber snakes, and a skull on a stick.
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A Roman Catholic bishop and a Muslim imam both said prayers at the simple ceremony in the southern city of Salerno, with 26 wooden coffins laid out on a stone dais.
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History bears no account of people sleeping in tented neoprene coffins, or wearing questionable fancy dress, or purchasing falafel wraps from a motorized vehicle dressed to look like a psychedelic spaceship.
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Jewels of the Nile: 11 awesome Egyptian museums The inscriptions are especially unique because of the vivid colors, which stayed intact even though the coffins were buried for thousands of years.
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Hujar's photos of Warhol Star Candy Darling on her hospital bed remind me of Nan Goldin's photos of her friends in their coffins—attempts to immortalize or preserve people through photography.
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And listen to the voices FranceThe revolutionary hymn that set citizen armies marching across Europe—there's even a children's verse, where the youngsters vow to share the coffins of their elders.
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Hong Kong also suffers from a profound wealth gap—the world's second worst behind New York City—and many people pile into tenement spaces the size of coffins just to survive.
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Coffins and caskets have long been a part of the Costco offering in the U.S., but you could say it might take shoppers a bit of getting used to in Australia.
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While you rest in peace, the wood, the synthetic cushioning and the metals generally used in traditional coffins -- as well as the concrete around reinforced graves -- continue to litter the earth.
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"There was the time that a group of conservative activists calling for the death of the NEA tried to haul two coffins up the Capitol steps in Washington, DC," Wilson said.
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Newspaper pictures of coffins draped with Kenyan flags bringing back dead soldiers after the attack increased the disquiet from ordinary Kenyans and the opposition alike over Kenya's continued presence in Somalia.
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HONG KONG — A campaign in southeastern China to phase out burials has led to widespread complaints about the destruction of thousands of coffins and the exhumation of at least one corpse.
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"I've looked here in the morgue and in another morgue, but there is no sign of them," she said, standing in front of a row of coffins at a makeshift mortuary.
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Especially delicate pieces are wrapped in acid-free tissue paper to protect against dust and moths and are laid to rest in cardboard boxes referred to in the business as ''coffins.
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Many of them had been sent to the Church of All Saints in Bergamo, located in the closed cemetery, where scores of waxed wooden coffins form a macabre line for cremations.
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Many of them had been sent to the Church of All Saints in Bergamo, located in the closed cemetery, where scores of waxed wooden coffins form a macabre line for cremations.
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In fact, 11 people were scheduled to join this year's procession, but two coffins stayed behind in the church, including a small white coffin that had been saved for a child.
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The coffins of Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who also died in Friday's attack in Baghdad, were passed over the heads of mourners chanting "Death to America".
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The coffins held the remains of some of the 17 people killed on Sunday in a blast at the gates of St. Mark's Cathedral, the historic seat of Christendom in Egypt.
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As scores of coffins were distributed to families outside the base over the weekend for transport home by car, taxi, van and truck, traffic turned into a hodgepodge of makeshift hearses.
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President George W. Bush tried to hide the casualties of war from the American public by barring the media from Dover Air Force Base when flag-draped coffins returned from Iraq.
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An article on March 21793, 21797, in The Public Ledger recounted how relatives of the dead, asked to identify their ancestors, were shocked to find many barely decomposed in their coffins.
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Where Bowers's works show the power of the book to support and advocate for under-represented groups, Smith's "coffins" illustrate their potential as a form of meaningful representation for the individual.
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The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry says the artifacts include parts of five coffins, two statues of cats, a depiction of a human head made of basalt, and a pharaonic mask made of wood.
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Lucas became famous for smuggling heroin out of Southeast Asia in what became known as the "Cadaver Connection" where he hid the drugs in the coffins of soldiers who died in Vietnam.
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The big picture: From "cradles to coffins," the 25% tariffs proposed by the Trump administration on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods will raise prices on a wide range of everyday items.
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She starts life as a monstrous human long before she transitions, ordering the rape and humiliation of the twins Maharet and Mekare, and eventually casting them adrift in stone coffins at sea.
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The cover art for Hard to Kill, the debut project by the eponymous supergroup of Toronto rappers Teddy Fantum and G Milla, depicts two coffins side-by-side in ominous, monolithic symmetry.
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But it may take awhile for you to notice, since the more striking aspect of Riccardo Hernández's set is the array of coffins surrounding that piano, some of them draped with dresses.
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VALENCIA, Venezuela (Reuters) - When Venezuelan entrepreneurs Alejandro Blanchard and Elio Angulo decided to create cardboard coffins, they were looking for an ecological selling point to compete against classic wood and brass caskets.
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As the honor guard and the troops stood at attention, 55 small coffins containing the remains were individually carried out of the plane by dress-uniformed soldiers and loaded into six vans.
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But also at the site are duplicates of each steel column, lined up in rows like coffins, intended to be disseminated around the country to the counties where lynchings were carried out.
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At a cemetery, there are concrete vaults, coffins made from exotic materials, and headstones that have been transported from across the country; perpetual mowing, irrigation, and leaking toxins become one's environmental legacy.
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The film kicks off on the road to Bacurau, littered with coffins that have fallen off a truck, before immersing spectators in a funeral dance celebrating the life of a local matriarch.
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When he died, 23 years later, the King asked to be buried next to Caroline and to have the sides of their coffins removed, so that their dust could mingle together forever.
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Later, while the empty coffins were lowered into the ground at the church, the captain's father, a dentist, muttered words of encouragement to other pilots who had come to offer their condolences.
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Dusted with sawdust, John Byam's sculptures appear as if they've just been carved, the shavings attached with glue binder giving a rawness to the miniature spacecrafts, airplanes, houses, helicopters, cameras, and coffins.
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Coffins of victims draped in Syrian and Druze flags had been brought from the main city hospital as thousands thronged to pay homage to the victims as the city closed down in mourning.
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India's Home Minister Rajnath Singh flew into Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir, and joined mourners carrying the coffins of the dead policemen, before they were sent to their homes across India.
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People carry the coffins of two victims of the Fuego Volcano along the streets of Alotenango municipality, Guatemala, during the funeral of four of the at least 109 confirmed victims on June 10.
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They prefer shrouds and woodland burials to coffins and graveyards; celebrations of life to sombre rituals in funeral homes; and video tributes to a life just lost to displays of the embalmed dead.
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Erdogan also paid respect to victims of the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica, laying flowers on trucks bearing the coffins of 33 among the 8,000 Muslim men and boys massacred by Bosnian Serb forces.
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The work was particularly grim after Hurricane Isaac in 2012 because many of the 200 or so coffins that washed up on levees along the Mississippi River were wooden and had broken apart.
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In fact, King Tutankhamun was laid to rest in three gold-wrapped coffins, the innermost of which was made from sheets of pure, beaten gold, which would now be worth over $217 million.
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Biodegradable coffins are in vogue in Europe and the United States, but they are also finding a niche in Venezuela in the face of shortages, triple-digit annual inflation and a deep recession.
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The trademarks, for items such as baby blankets, bamboo crafts and coffins, include products that the brand sells as well as items that it seeks to prevent others from selling with Trump branding.
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The demonstrators reportedly carried two coffins — one representing 26-year-old Botham Jean and the other representing 85033-year-old Oshae Terry, two people shot and killed by police officers in separate instances.
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In addition to making room for cremains, some have started accepting "green burials," which forgo embalming, metal caskets and cement or metal liners in the earth, in favor of biodegradable coffins or shrouds.
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Mr. Portabella's focus is sharpest when he shows various on-set preparations, including the manufacture of fog, the creation of cobwebs, the fabrication of bloody bites and the arrangement of actors in coffins.
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The soles of her Hermès shoes — as white as the altar's Carrara marble Jesus — faced the grating above the crypt where her deceased husband and his noble family's ancestors lay in polished coffins.
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"Dear viewers," Ms. Hafizi began as the coffins were lowered into graves, "you are watching the burial processions of our ToloNews journalists Samim Faramarz and ..." She choked on her words and started crying.
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"We often talk about the most needy and these are truly the most needy now," he said outside the church after blessing about 40 coffins along with a younger priest, Father Marcello Crotti.
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They believe that their dead bodies are merely a "sick-form," and that the coffins and crypts containing them are "sick-boxes," as if Oak Hill were a hospital instead of a cemetery.
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They also noted that some of the coffins belonging to children may be difficult to find and that some graves may be located under an agricultural workshop built on-site in the 1970s.
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"We feel as though our ancestors are coming back and talking to us," said a member of a historical committee that is investigating the discovery of about 145 coffins at a high school.
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There were ghoulish commemorations of the officers who have killed themselves this year — more than 50, well on the way to a record — including a mannequin hanged in effigy, and 51 cardboard coffins.
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The funerary site, uncovered eight meters below ground in Minya, a province about 22016 km (150 miles) south of Cairo, contained limestone and clay sarcophagi, animal coffins, and papyrus inscribed with Demotic script.
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Things like peanut butter, or coffins, or missiles and munitions, or voting machines — everywhere in our society, you&aposre seeing this concentration of power in our markets, in the hands of the few.
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Westmill suggests ways for its customers to reduce costs, such as carrying and lowering coffins themselves, but Rothschild said that the business has recently had to raise prices as margins were so tight.
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Santa Avelina Journal SANTA AVELINA, Guatemala — Juana García Gómez, 75, wept over two coffins placed side by side in the sports hall of the Santa Avelina school in the western highlands of Guatemala.
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Every day during the excavation in summer 173, Ms. Moran or Dr. Leader loaded coffins into their cars and drove them to Waggin' Tails, a former dog-grooming business in rural New Jersey.
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OLONGAPO, Philippines (Reuters) - Some drug users seeking to avoid becoming a bloody statistic in Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's crackdown on narcotics, are going into a rehabilitation program that teaches them how to make coffins.
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Mr. Woodcock, known as Woody, had in 103 raised $33,000 to build a morgue, a sparse three-room building with a linoleum floor, where a dozen silver-handled coffins stand upright in two rows.
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After her father died, Ms. Thompson-Simmons, an adept businesswoman, refashioned the home's once-dreary display area into a bright showroom in which coffins rest several feet in the air, above sleek, translucent bases.
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Businesses are arguing that the Trump administration's proposed 25% tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods will force American consumers to pay more for everyday items ranging from "cradles to coffins," reports Reuters.
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Substitute concrete vaults and toxic burial containers for coffins made with sustainably harvested wood and organic liners, and check if products or components were transported over long distances, which can increase the carbon footprint.
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Countless young people bore witness to some of the most horrific scenes imaginable: broken, dismembered bodies; floors slicked with blood; parents virtually paralyzed with grief, clutching siblings' coffins as they disappear into the earth.
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It was 1966 and draft calls were escalating every month as the American Army in Southeast Asia built up to half a million men, dozens of whom were coming home in coffins every week.
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Manufacturing a steel coffin also produces four times the carbon dioxide released in a typical cremation, and we bury more than 83,000 such coffins every year, plus many, many tons of concrete burial vaults.
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The older soldiers, in their 30s and 40s, were visibly more somber, having the experience of seeing comrades come home from past deployments learning to walk on one leg or in flag-draped coffins.
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Much of the town came out for the procession, as the coffins wound past mud homes and a barracks where a dozen soldiers stood guard — the same one where the men were originally taken.
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In Iraq's southern oil capital of Basra, demonstrators prevented government employees getting to work by installing concrete barriers painted as mock-up coffins of relatives killed in weeks of unrest, a Reuters witness said.
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Having already suffered the loss of their treasured coffins, the villagers in Jiangxi worry that they may now face another big bill if they want to have their ashes buried in their nearest public cemetery.
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But she says the most important tools of her trade are her car, her website, a set of portable speakers for playing chamber music at cemeteries and an iPad for showing customers photos of coffins.
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Feelings ran high on the streets of Makurdi where thousands of people, many clad in black, waved wreaths as coffins on lorries passed by carrying the dead who were mainly from rural communities of Benue.
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"Any ground intervention onto Syrian land without the agreement of the Syrian government is an act of aggression...and we regret that those (who do so) will return to their countries in coffins," he said.
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Jasna Elezovic, standing by five coffins draped in green cloth which held the remains of her father, brother, two cousins and uncle in the nearby Kamicani graveyard, said their bodies were found only last year.
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IN HIS office behind Tokyo's Aoyama cemetery, Yukihiro Masuda says that these days prospective clients are so much readier to talk about the end of life that he encourages them to try out his coffins.
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In a music video featuring images of coffins and the faces of young children killed by stray bullets in Rio, rapper Gabriel O Pensador, also from Rio, Brazil's second largest city, objected to the parodies.
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Officials are being forced to use Italian army trucks to transport coffins from the worst-hit northern city of Bergamo to remote cremation sites because local morgues can't deal with the skyrocketing coronavirus death toll.
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" Worst of all, during the height of the refugee crisis last spring, Hopkins wrote in a now deleted Sun column: "Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water ... I still don't care.
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Touted as an environmental and financially friendly option, green burials can be as simple as wrapping a body in a cotton shroud and lowering it to the ground — factoring out conventional vaults, coffins and embalming.
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Young people in inner cities across the country, from Baltimore to Chicago to Los Angeles, have taken inspiration from the Parkland students to say that they, too, are tired of seeing their friends in coffins.
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Thousands of mourners, grieving aloud and chanting prayers, accompanied the coffins of the victims, who ranged from a man in his 70s to a 3-year-old child who had accompanied his father to prayer.
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THE CLOSER And finally … Discovered by accident recently beneath the hot sands in the Valley of the Kings, 30 vividly colored mummy coffins appeared on display on Saturday in front of Hatshepsut Temple in Luxor.
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Hundreds of thousands of Iranians filled the streets of Tehran on Monday, with some chanting "death to America" as they passed the coffins of military leaders killed in a U.S. strike last week, Reuters reports.
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"Any ground intervention onto Syrian land without the agreement of the Syrian government is an act of aggression ...and we regret that those (who do so) will return to their countries in coffins," he said.
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Weeping women held slender single stems in their shaking hands and banks of the flowers, traditionally used to mark the passing of lives, were placed in front of a row of empty coffins at the ceremony.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish prosecutors said on Tuesday they would re-open the coffins of all victims of a 2010 presidential jet crash to examine the remains, a move likely to deepen political divisions surrounding the investigation.
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The coffins of army chief of staff Seare Mekonnen and a retired general, both shot dead on Saturday by Seare's bodyguard in the national capital Addis Ababa, were wheeled into the hall, draped in Ethiopian flags.
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A shortage of coffins and a failure to collect all corpses led some parents to put their dead children into large macaroni boxes, notes Jen Wright, author of "Get Well Soon", a book surveying historical epidemics.
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After the private ceremony the coffins were loaded onto 10 hearses, which drove slowly under police escort down roads lined with men and women, some wearing service medals, who had come out to pay their respects.
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The coffins of Shia fighters killed in battles against the Sunni jihadists are loaded onto cars and taxis and driven in procession to be buried in Najaf, another holy city in the south about 160km away.
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Middle- and upper-class families spent lavishly on funerals, which would include not just silk winding sheets and coffins made of hardwood or brass, but also hired attendants waving black ostrich feathers—the more the better.
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Centuries before the Internet began worshipping LOLcats, the ancient Egyptians venerated felines as gods, burying their preserved remains in cat-shaped coffins (like the two pictured here, which may date as far back as 664 B.C.E.).
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On Thursday, however, remains that had previously been removed for forensic analysis, but couldn't be identified, were placed in coffins and buried in the crater as it was filled in — something that families had previously requested.
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Mr. Hoyt's galas were experimental affairs, rotating through a series of clubs, with coffins splayed out on the dance floor, performances by goth bands and leather-clad vampires who might flog one another with kink whips.
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He told spellbinding stories about stashing heroin in the false bottoms of coffins being shipped to the United States from Vietnam, and about the bloody burlesque of a Harlem heroin dealer and his Country Boys crew.
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Once quiet and wealthy, Bergamo is now a place where Red Cross workers, above, go door to door to carry away the afflicted, and coffins are so numerous the army has been called to take them.
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AARP's website offers recommendations for holding down costs, like buying a coffin online and avoiding funeral packages that offer discounted coffins since the funeral home may make up the difference by charging more for other services.
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There's movement on one of the pledges that emerged from Mr. Trump's meeting with Mr. Kim: The Pentagon began moving coffins to the border with North Korea to prepare for the return of American war dead.
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Soon thereafter, he began to talk about funeral processions he'd witnessed after drone strikes where more coffins appeared than he expected, first with members of the group, later at some interfaith meetings organized by peace activists.
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The Brazilian Air Force said three Hercules C-130 transport planes were ready to fly from Manaus to Medellin in Colombia to pick up the coffins that are scheduled to arrive in Chapecó at 7 a.m.
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As Indian television networks followed the coffins of the slain troops draped in the Indian flag on their final journey home, Mr. Modi's party directed its senior leaders to attend the cremations, which were telecast live.
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Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon's powerful, Iran-allied Hezbollah movement, said the U.S. military in the Middle East would pay the price for Soleimani'S death and U.S. soldiers and officers would return home in coffins.
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But she remains a controversial figure for her years-long involvement in a wider CIA program that led to the torture of dozens of suspects, which included stuffing people into coffins or depriving them of sleep.
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Duterte was scheduled to meet with their families in City Hall where the coffins have been placed, but cancelled the trip "due to inclement weather," assistant secretary of presidential communications, Mia Reyes, said in a text message.
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The elaborate service — along with the white coffins and the images of toys and the children's names embroidered into the lids and the words "Beloved Mother" stitched inside Ms. Cutler's coffin — was donated by the funeral home.
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Originally, according to a source at the presidential palace, Temer planned only to travel to the airport at the city in remote southern Brazil long enough to receive the coffins of 50 players, club officials and journalists.
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Where parents can put food on the table, where there are good paying jobs with good benefits in every neighborhood, where our criminal justice system keeps us safe, instead of shuffling more children into cages and coffins.
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A Member of South Korea's Agency for KIA Recovery and Identification prepare the remains of Chinese soldiers who were killed in the Korean War, before they are placed into coffins on April 1, in Incheon, South Korea.
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"Although fully gilded coffins from Egypt are attested over a period of more than 1,500 years, they are extremely rare, and the Met owns no other examples," a member of the museum's Egyptian Art Department told Hyperallergic.
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She is tasked with preserving, archiving, and exhibiting the roughly 22,000 artifacts the facility has accumulated over the years, from moulds of patients' disfigured hands to obsolete medical supplies like wicker coffins and rickety hand-cranked wheelchairs.
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Polish authorities said last week they had found the remains of two other people in Kaczynski's coffin while examining the exhumed coffins of victims from the plane crash, which occurred near the western Russian city of Smolensk.
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Numerous dead from Washington Square Park's former role as a potter's field are believed to be interred in its ground, and recently, such evidence as an intact tombstone and century-old coffins in brick vaults was discovered.
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The daily carnage we witness in hospitals and morgues is often overlooked, but it happens everywhere, to every group of Americans, and leaves our patients and their families with an accumulation of broken bodies, coffins, and grief.
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Some of the cemeteries were for animals and contain one or two chambers with either stone or clay coffins, or ones made of cartonnage, Mahmoud Afify, the ministry's head of Ancient Egyptian Antiquities, said in a statement.
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The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness continues at Jack Shainman Gallery (524 W 24th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan) through August 25 and at the School (25 Broad Street, Kinderhook, NY) through January 6, 2018.
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On the windy tarmac of Kyiv's main airport on Sunday, an honor guard stood at attention as pallbearers carried the victims' flag-draped coffins from the cargo bay of an airplane to a convoy of waiting hearses.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross is covering the costs of coffins and the burial niches because "a dignified burial is a humanitarian priority," said Francesco Panetta, a spokesman for the Red Cross mission in Guatemala.
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The U.S. military said Saturday it moved 100 wooden coffins to the inter-Korean border to prepare for North Korea&aposs return of the remains of American soldiers who have been missing since the 1950-53 Korean War.
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Image: Lassithi Ephorate of AntiquitiesUnbeknownst to a Greek farmer, a 3,400-year-old tomb containing two coffins and dozens of artifacts dating back to the Late Minoan era had been lying beneath his olive grove in southeast Crete.
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In 2002, workers who had been allowed in to fix a wall and upgrade the ventilating system had apparently destroyed the remaining coffins, pushing human remains and brass plates to one side and leaving bones and teeth exposed.
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In the nearby resort of Duino, where Rilke began to write his elegies, Mr Bassett is reminded of the day when the coffins of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife were transported through the city in silenzio assoluto.
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In an effort to cut poverty and create new rural jobs, all manner of crafts have been revived or invented, including creating sculptures from peach stones and yams, weaving bamboo and, in one place, making miniature souvenir coffins.
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Gadget And then it happened - not everyone was ready, not everyone saw it coming, but the Japanese lads in Coffins shut the 013 venue down once and for all with arguably the best set of the whole weekend.
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The department imposed limits on waterboarding and refused to approve mock burial; the record is unclear whether Nashiri's waterboarding complied with its limits, or if the CIA broke the department's rules when it stashed him in mock coffins.
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The 19th-century "Fisk Mummy" coffin, proclaimed to be "air tight" for protecting against decomposition, may seem like an oddity of the past with its cast-iron pod, but many coffins are still advertised with their "sealing" properties.
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The current government's move to reopen the coffins had split families of victims between those who mistrusted the post-crash procedures conducted in Russia and those who wanted their loved ones to be left to rest in peace.
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The Italian Army has started ferrying dozens of coffins from the northern city of Bergamo, the worst-hit city in Italy's coronavirus crisis, to remote cremation sites because local morgues can't cope with the number of new deaths.
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The Venezuelan league games were suspended on Friday, but the Lara Cardinals held a public memorial at Estadio Antonio Herrera Gutiérrez in Barquisimeto, where fans watched as players carried the coffins of Valbuena and Castillo around the field.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Some of the earliest aid that arrived in Ghazni, a strategic city under siege by the Taliban for days, included body bags and medical supplies, food and water for thousands of residents, and coffins for 250.
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Each shared well over 100 times on Facebook as of March 28, 2020, two social media posts show a photograph of three long rows of coffins (here and here), along with the message that people should stay home.
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The state of Washington, the early epicenter of the U.S. outbreak, has outright banned funerals, and the pandemic appears to be leading to lost sales of funeral homes' most profitable services, such as elaborate memorials and luxurious coffins.
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Packaging and labeling "sucks," and is expensive in its own right, but laboratory compliance tests—which cost roughly $1,000 per cannabis substance, rather than per product, and require large samples—are "putting a nail in people's coffins," Senter continued.
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SAN LUIS TALPA, El Salvador (Reuters) - Days after she lost her small daughter and husband to the treacherous currents of the Rio Grande, Tania Vanessa Avalos, 23, arrived back in El Salvador to await her family's return — in coffins.
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The DC collective have been locked into a fetid, crusty death/doom groove since 2008, churning out splits with Hooded Menace, Seven Sisters of Sleep, and the the mighty Coffins alongside four full-length horrors of their own making.
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Mourners carry the coffins of Haider Abbas, 24, right, and Abbas Dahi, 13, soccer players killed in a suicide bombing at a soccer field in Iskandariya, 25 miles (about 40 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 26, 2016.
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Copetti said the coffins will arrive in Chapeco by midday on Friday at the earliest and will be taken directly to the club's stadium where a collective wake will be held, with Brazilian President Michel Temer expected to attend.
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The Egyptian government called it "one of the largest and most important discoveries" of the past few years and said the coffins included "colors and inscriptions in full," according to a translation of a press release announcing the finding.
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The Egyptian government said on Tuesday that the country's minister of antiquities, Khaled El-Anany, had traveled to the site to inspect the newly discovered coffins along with Mostafa Waziri, the secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
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In what is by now a well-rehearsed ceremony, the coffins, identically draped in green cloth, many holding only partial remains, were laid out in rows inside the former battery factory's cavernous hangar on the eve of the interment.
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A spokesman for the Division of Cemeteries said there was no indication that the crematory violated any regulation; crematories cannot open coffins without good cause under state law, relying on funeral directors to provide the identity of the remains.
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The caskets of 11 further victims also contained body parts of others, prosecutors said after examining 24 coffins from the crash, which some officials of the ruling right-wing party have blamed on an explosion aboard, without providing evidence.
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The government and police have been accused of being slow to respond to the spate of murders -- leading to a series of protests in June, including a women's march and procession carrying mock coffins to the country's parliament building.
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One night on an airfield in Kuwait I stood to attention, my spine stiff, shoulders back, arms tight by my side, as two mates were carried past me in wooden coffins and loaded onto the back of a plane.
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"I'm glad he's getting a proper burial, rather than ending up in potter's field," Mr. Smith said as funeral home staff members loaded the coffins into hearses and the aging veterans snapped to attention and saluted their military colleagues.
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The New York Times reported Wednesday that officials in Hillsborough County say that ground-penetrating radar scans of the areas surrounding King High School indicate that dozens of coffins, as many as 145 in total, could be located underground.
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Together, we can build a country where parents can afford to put food on the table; where there are good-paying jobs; where our criminal justice system keeps us safe instead of shuffling more children into cages and coffins.
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Directed by Ridley Scott, this movie (which investigators and journalists say mixes fiction with fact) follows Lucas's rise as he smuggles heroin into the United States in the coffins of service personnel who were killed in the Vietnam War.
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If you're in the mood for a beautiful yet spooky maze, spend some time in the Recoleta Cemetery, with more than 6,400 statues, sarcophagi, coffins, and crypts, and the grave site of famed first lady of Argentina Eva Peron.
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In some areas, harvested invasive plants already are being used to produce charcoal or fibrous products such as coffins, but most of the waste is unused, she said, and only that unused supply will be diverted to the jet fuel project.
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Cover: Stewardesses with Ukrainian airline react near to coffins of the flight crew members of the Ukrainian 737-800 plane that crashed on the outskirts of Tehran, during a memorial service at Borispil international airport outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Jan.
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But in Olongapo, a city of 220,000 three hours north of Manila, drug users are taught carpentry skills and paid 5,000 Philippine pesos ($103) a month to build wooden coffins as part of the local government's livelihood and rehabilitation program.
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As the flow of coffins into their village quickens and the supposedly heroic nature of the deaths becomes increasingly doubtful, the goats become (deceptively adorable) weapons in a propaganda war, part of a campaign of lurid distraction from daily atrocity.
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Toronto's tourist spots have been transformed into cobweb-covered dens filled with struggling actors in masks bursting out of plastic coffins and chasing after screaming teens and apathetic 20-somethings more dead inside than any monster envisioned by Wes Craven.
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Syria will resist any ground incursion into its territory and send the aggressors home "in coffins", its foreign minister said on Saturday, in comments clearly aimed at Sunni Arab countries that have said they were ready to join such an operation.
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A priest, accompanied by a Scottish piper, led the flag-draped coffins in a somber procession from the lowered tail-section of the two C-17 transport planes and into a nearby hanger, where family members held a private ceremony.
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H: I understand you are Ghanaian-American, and I have a personal fascination with several heritage art forms from Ghana, including Asafo Flags and fantasy coffins, as well as some really terrific contemporary artists, like El Anatsui and Ibrahim Mahama.
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MAKURDI, Nigeria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When the ambulances drove into the square in Makurdi city carrying more than 222 coffins, the air filled with the sound of weeping as hundreds of people waited for their loved ones to be buried.
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While the Kinderhook location especially could have done with fewer of these pairings (perhaps allowing a few more of Paa Joe's exceptional coffins to be included), the mashup of works spanning mediums and centuries makes for a worthwhile thought experiment.
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Deputy Prosecutor General Marek Pasionek told reporters that in 12 of 24 coffins reopened since last year, bodies had been swapped in two, one contained half the body of another person while nine other caskets held scattered remains of other victims.
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Once known as a quiet and wealthy province, Bergamo is now a place where Red Cross workers go door to door to carry away the afflicted, where the coffins are so numerous the army has been called to take them away.
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The Special Deterrent Forces, a Libyan armed group which is allied with the militia-backed government now controlling Tripoli, posted on Facebook that two green coffins containing the dead embassy members had been delivered to Mitiga airport in the country's capital.
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It is still a burial ground for roughly 1,100 unclaimed bodies per year that arrive by ferry for burial in bare wooden coffins and are stacked three high in rows of six, in trenches as long as a football field.
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"France loves Simone Veil," President Emmanuel Macron said on the steps of the Panthéon, as he faced the coffins of Ms. Veil and her husband, Antoine, a former civil servant who died in 19923 and who will rest alongside her.
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"It's a very good place to take your unruly spoilt kids if they are in the mood to damage 800 year old coffins," a reviewer on TripAdvisor wrote about the priory under the title "Loads of things to break" on Wednesday.
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At the cemetery, Pete Jepson, one of the Patriot Guard Riders, hopped off his Harley-Davidson and directed his riders to form a ceremonial walkway through which the coffins were guided to an alcove in a serene stand of pines.
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"You can die in a way that has beauty attached," said Amy Cunningham, 22016, a funeral director in Brooklyn who specializes in "green" burials, without embalming or metal coffins, and assists families who are caring for their dead at home.
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In neighboring Bolivia, supporters of president Evo Morales marched into the capital La Paz on Thursday carrying coffins of people killed in clashes with the military and police, drawing attention to the human cost of the crisis gripping that nation.
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A broad cross-section of U.S. businesses has a message for the Trump administration: new tariffs on $23 billion of Chinese imports will force Americans to pay more for items they use throughout their daily lives, from cradles to coffins.
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Video shot by local people in Bergamo, northeast of Milan, and shown on the website of the local newspaper Eco di Bergamo, showed a long column of military trucks driving through the streets overnight and removing coffins from the town's cemetery.
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" Dr. John Byrd, the agency's laboratory director, said Tuesday at a news conference that in a quick forensic review, the remains in the 55 latest coffins appeared to be consistent with Korean War remains, and "are likely to be American remains.
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By strict definitions, lying in state is reserved for those who served in the government, and it applies only to the time their coffins are displayed in the Capitol or a government building, either in Washington or at the state level.
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For their health, they claim, they have been confined to sick-boxes (coffins) and must lie next to sick-forms (corpses), but they are certain they will eventually recover and go back to "that other place" to rejoin their loved ones.
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St. Michan's attracts around 28,000 paying visitors a year, who come to tour its small but historically significant interior, which includes the organ on which George Frideric Handel wrote his "Messiah" oratorio, and view the mummified bodies in their open coffins.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday the U.S. military in the Middle East would pay the price for the killing of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, warning that U.S. soldiers and officers would return home in coffins.
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