It has also supplied parts for windmills, a post office in Iran and metal headstones for graves. |
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The graves were of different sizes and some were covered with flagstones, some of the urns were sent to Dublin for further examination. |
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She said that many graves had been adorned with urns, stones, shrubs and plants, but unfortunately many had become extremely untidy. |
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They cremated their dead and placed urns of their ashes in flat graves in cemeteries. |
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The damage has involved the smashing of glass flower holders and the scattering of flowers and other objects which had been placed on graves. |
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A number of lead crosses were recovered from London, apparently thrown into the mass graves. |
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To be cured we we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. |
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Inside the rotunda are flowers, ivy and a single Japanese maple tree that provides shade for the graves. |
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I would suggest that our penny-pinching council visit the war graves in France and Belgium and then decide where priorities lie. |
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Help is still needed to identify unmarked graves in Bonniconlon new cemetery. |
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People who despise nutritional diets and only eat junk food are digging their graves with their teeth. |
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In this extensive process of clearance 40 graves were encountered and all of them opened. |
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The kabaka is the supreme symbol of Buganda's identity, and the royal tomb contains the graves of the last four of the kabakas. |
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The couple led police to the graves last week, directing operations as a helicopter flew overhead. |
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Relatives visiting loved ones' graves thought vandals had struck when they arrived to see scores of gravestones knocked to the ground. |
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Above them a cluster of crosses mark graves and beyond them a few people cross onto a ship. |
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The belief that the graves of the Himyarite kings are full of jewelry leads many people to dig them up in order to steal what is inside. |
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Objections include the claim that a house so close to the graveyard would intrude on burials and the privacy of people visiting graves. |
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Among the services offered was a lifetime contract for fresh flowers on the graves, which Parker promised to arrange with a local florists. |
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The statue was surrounded by graves, rows of tombstones stretching out as far as the eye could see in all directions. |
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He had hit upon one of the original graves and was too freaked out to go anywhere near the hole. |
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Those who died were buried in a separate plague cemetery in the grounds, in graves demarcated only by numbers. |
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The objects from these sites were originally buried two to three feet down at the bottom of graves. |
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There's a long history in hoodoo of visiting graves of prominent people, leaving a gift or payment, and asking for their aid. |
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I can hear the sound of millions of bodies turning in their graves, having made the supreme sacrifice so we could enjoy freedom and democracy. |
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The cremation graves at Vronda all have multiple burials within the same cist grave. |
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And Our Lord is stronger than death since He has both raised us from the dead, and will raise us from the graves. |
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We travel down from Newcastle and Durban twice a year in order to keep the graves neat and tidy. |
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Beads have been excavated in large numbers from early period female Viking graves. |
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Mass graves were dug on the outskirts of the city for thousands of the bodies. |
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The cemetery on the hill contains 40 freshly dug graves, unmarked and identical. |
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The unadorned stones had marked the graves of unidentified Confederate soldiers. |
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The unmarked mass graves have been watched and revered by them for decades. |
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Marking graves with stones was one of the characteristics that continued through centuries and religions. |
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Most of the missing are believed to be buried in mass graves, and several mass grave sites have already been found and exhumed. |
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Family members gather and visit the graves of their ancestors to burn offerings of paper money and incense. |
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The relatives of all those buried in the graveyards had decorated their graves for the occasion. |
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It was not the Greeks' practice to place the family silver in graves, nor was it subjected to deep polishing. |
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I finally solved the mystery of my grandfather having two graves, and visited both of them. |
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At first cremation was the rule, as were flat or low graves, though later the tumulus or raised barrow became standard. |
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It is a great place, very sad and wild, dotted with the dwellings of prehistoric man, strange monoliths, huts and graves. |
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For as far as you could see, there were candles burning on graves of every size, dotting the hillside with light. |
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It was still mostly dark, especially under the trees, and candles still burned on the graves from visitors the night before. |
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He returned to Poland in 1988 and met friends and family, but also visited the graves of those who died during his exile. |
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We believe the terrorists forced them to dig their own graves and prepared them for execution. |
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Each Anzac Day these children place poppies on the graves of the allied soldiers. |
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The tenth day of the month of Muharram is observed by visits to the graves of relatives, followed by prayers and the giving of alms to the poor. |
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Some of the ladies from the auxiliary were up the other day, putting little flags on the graves. |
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Trees, shrubs, bushes and flowering plants were being planted on the graves. |
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Flowers were placed on Norwegian war graves at St Olaf's Cemetery and also in graveyards in Lyness and Westray. |
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Elsewhere, remnants of Zoroastrianism coexist with some cemeteries that have Russian Orthodox crosses on the graves. |
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My parents are buried in a garden I made in Water Mill, the graves two unmarked stones, surrounded by Montauk daisies and pink mallow. |
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When you visit the war graves and see so many young aircrew who died for their country, you realise their bravery has not been acknowledged. |
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The deliberate burial of an unknown soldier could not arise until the idea that common soldiers ought to have individual graves had arisen. |
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This vandalism has caused much distress and pain to the families of those whose graves were destroyed. |
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People buried more than 100 years ago could be disinterred and then re-interred deeper underground, leaving fresh land above for new graves. |
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While most of the graves are lovingly tended, many others are overgrown, unkempt, and desecrated. |
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The graves have been replaced by a modernist war memorial with tablets listing the names of the dead. |
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A number of other male graves contained shield bosses and spear heads, although all traces of the wooden shields and spears had long disappeared. |
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Some of the earlier burials were disentombed and reburied in the new site, but many were left in unmarked graves. |
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Second, she had been able to identify many of the unmarked graves where stones had broken or fallen down. |
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The graves were well made of round limestone, they were about four feet long, one foot wide and about fourteen inches deep. |
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Archaeologists have found over 65 tombs, stone circles, passage graves and standing stones. |
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Tributes were also made to everyone who had cleaned and tidied the graves and to those who cut the grass. |
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The upper chamber houses their decorative graves amidst profusely inscribed gilted walls while their actual tombs are in a crypt below. |
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In the later stages of the campaign, we know the citizens of these villages were killed and massacred and buried in mass graves. |
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I heard that, of the 400,000 bodies buried in mass graves, only 5000 had been found. |
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The mass graves discovered in the course of the American liberation tell their own poignant story. |
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Excavation of the East Smithfield cemeteries, revealed that the dead were neatly stacked five deep in the mass graves. |
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There are thousands of other corpses of his victims mouldering, unknown and unmourned, in unmarked graves. |
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Mourners placed flowers and wreaths at the graves, including one where two sisters Alina, 12 and Ira, 13, were laid to rest together. |
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Their remains were unearthed in March from unmarked graves and identified by DNA testing with the help of Argentinian forensic experts. |
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If you ever visit Canada take a day to visit the graves of our beloved ancestors. |
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So he argued against the rich being able to commemorate their war dead with ornate personal graves. |
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On All Saints' Day, people visit cemeteries, light candles, and place chrysanthemums on the graves in remembrance of their deceased loved ones. |
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Unfortunately, the graves were dug up, the remains were reinterred, and the road is there now. |
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On All Souls' Day, people gather at the graves of family members for a twenty-four-hour vigil. |
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We know from other graves that it was common for parents to put a small marker with initials for a stillborn child or an infant. |
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They devoted page upon page, day after day, to tales of mass murders, common graves, summary executions, and war crimes. |
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And he was particularly odiously cruel, as we know from the mass graves, and other things. |
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Today, if 1.8 percent of the population were killed in war, there would be 5.4 million graves to decorate on Decoration Day. |
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But in relation to the new cemetery, I don't believe our youths would stoop so low as to desecrate the graves or vandalise the cemetery. |
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Vandals have desecrated graves at a cemetery described as having some of the finest funerary art in the North of England. |
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We tracked down a house in Malvern where one of them used to live, then went to St Kilda Cemetery to potter about among the graves. |
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A two-minute silence was held and each member of the congregation was invited to lay flowers on those graves desecrated by the yobs. |
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Flowers laid by relatives at the plot were scattered around the memorial during Sunday night's desecration of the graves. |
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In folklore, zombies are portrayed as innocent victims who are raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent sorcerers. |
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Sacrifices and offerings are made to it and to the graves of male ancestors. |
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They were looking at the first complete cemetery of individual Viking inhumation graves ever excavated in England. |
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Similarly with pits, ditches, banks, graves and all those amorphous uninterpretable semi-features that abound on sites. |
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Hence, Viking graves often contain Arab silver, Byzantine silks, Frankish weapons, Rhenish glass, and other products of an extensive trade. |
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The graveyard dates back nearly 200 years and due to the antiquity of the graves, many of them were not marked. |
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The dead are washed, wrapped in seamless shrouds, and buried in graves facing Mecca without coffins or markers. |
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And we walked through churchyards at night, coming upon little patches of graves that were lit by flickering candles. |
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The gathering was assembled to pay their respects and lay wreathes on all the graves. |
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Instead most graves are marked with a steel stake and a piece of rusting tin bearing a number. |
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Martyrs' relics and graves seemed of little moment in a world about to be consumed by fire. |
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I have seen the graves of the Indian soldiers in the military cemeteries of France. |
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The remains of several Neolithic passage graves and over thirty Iron Age burial mounds can also be seen. |
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The graves were so close together that people attending my relative's funeral were stumbling over the soil mounded on the grave next door. |
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As news of the shocking rampage spread, heartbroken relatives arrived to inspect their loved one's graves. |
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Among other things they met with several curiously formed graves containing urns with burned and unburned bones. |
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Water brought by the attenders will be blessed during the ceremony, and can then be sprinkled on the graves. |
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The dead lie asleep, but in the second coming they shall be awakened from their graves and clothed in new skin. |
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Trenches became mass graves in scenes of terrible carnage as 1,000 men fell dead or wounded. |
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Though the jheels serve as their feeding ground, they also become their graves from time to time. |
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I got to my feet and stalked into the graveyard, blasphemously passing over old graves and fake flower arrangements. |
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Originally a combined cemetery and arboretum, the trees soon made way for thousands of graves and monuments from all over London. |
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He went off to sit under a large weeping willow on the grounds not far from the graves. |
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The hulls lie in relatively shallow water and have long been raided by salvagers and souvenir hunters, despite their status as war graves. |
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One of the curious aspects was the age of the decorated Samian bowls when they were placed in the graves. |
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A light westerly wind blew, gentle as the day, and whipped up the dusts moving them to scattered graves and other surrounding parts of the city. |
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The nomadic herdsmen of those times constructed stone mounds and stone-flagged graves of great size. |
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Families will be given the opportunity to provide blood for DNA testing to check against samples taken from bodies found in mass graves. |
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If dead radio stations have graves, GLR must be spinning like a washing machine's drum right now. |
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I don't believe our youths would stoop so low as to desecrate the graves or vandalise the cemetery. |
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Around him graves crept up the hillside in a mishmash of stone headstones and rotting wooden crosses. |
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When all of the Civil War graves are located the cemetery plans to pick up the cost of new headstones on their graves. |
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About 100 headstones and graves were wrecked in Thursday's incident, which police said was racially motivated. |
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The majority of these graves did not have accompanying headstones or markers of any kind. |
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It's an amazing sight to see 43 acres of graves and monuments and headstones and so many images of death packed together. |
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I took full advantage, and strolled along between the graves, reading the headstones. |
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I have got a plot reserved for myself at the foot of their graves, but I don't like the thought of them being dug up later, splitting up the family. |
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They claim worshipping at graves and shrines is un-Islamic and idolatrous and abhor the Sufi use of music and dance. |
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Their bodies were later found incinerated and buried in mass graves outside of town. |
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Up to the time the tomb was closed on 18 November, an estimated 1,250,000 people visited the Abbey, and the site is now one of the most visited war graves in the world. |
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Earlier this year in company with teachers and students from Wellington College, New Zealand I visited war graves and battle sites in France and Flanders. |
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The snow lay thick upon the graves, and the day was cold and dreary. |
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The long crypt tunnels into a hillside, only visible by a smattering of skylights peeking up between graves. |
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They started robbing graves but found the demand for bodies outstripped supply so they started knocking off Edinburgh lowlifes who they reasoned would not be missed. |
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Rabbits have been in abundance in the area this year and have been upsetting some grieving relatives by eating flowers and wreaths from the graves. |
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The cemetery became a labyrinth, as family and friends slowly filed between the graves and tombstones to visit their departed loved ones on All Souls' Day. |
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The graves contain some of the earliest pagan Anglian settlers in Britain, who arrive from their Germanic homelands not long after the end of Roman rule. |
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His hagiographers may spin in their graves, but the truth will be told. |
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The resurrected vampire graves in particular have created quite a spectacle. |
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By the early 1850s clashes between Indians and wagoners were so common that the travelers often took great pains to hide burials in unmarked graves in the middle of the trail. |
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In claIMing support from those who lie in their graves, though, IM Tirtzu has been outdone by Upper Nazareth Mayor ShIMon Gapso. |
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That the Sikh novitiates include a sizable number of Muslims is shown by inclusion in this clause of the taboos as to the sanctity of graves, shirni, etc. |
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The field site contains over 45 stone circles, passage graves, standing stones and dolmen tombs and has been the focus of excavations for more than twenty years. |
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Coalition officials investigated 70 and confirm 40 as mass graves. |
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This Christmas we are placing wreaths on the graves of our heroes. |
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While the graveyard register has recorded the names of those buried in the cemetery identity of those buried in some graves is difficult to establish. |
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Their misdeeds, if that's what they really were, haunted some to their graves and continue to bedevil the still living who are never allowed to forget them. |
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I have walked through the boat junkyards and cemeteries with unmarked graves in Lampedusa many times. |
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In April, over 40 graves were desecrated and headstone overturned. |
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Body snatchers generally obtained fresh corpses from new graves. |
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She had ferried more than McConville to secret graves, and the burden of what she had done took its toll. |
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But the sun came through the trees, old women tended the graves of old men, and a red squirrel hopped down from the trees and went running and hopping over the stones. |
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It's about one of the prisoners who did escape as they were marched out there, blindfolded and put before mass graves, and they mowed them down and they buried them. |
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By Golly if the dead were rising from their graves and walking into town in all their goriness it would have been all around the Middle East by teatime. |
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Her sudden lunge forward pushed Setsunai back and therefore, caused him to drop his sword and forced them to descend off the platform, rushing to their graves below. |
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There have been small victories at a local level, with villages achieving exhumations of mass graves, reburying their dead and erecting monuments. |
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It is a component of the dry white graves and the sweet sauternes of the Bordeaux region as well as being the grape of Sancerre and Pouilly in the Upper Loire Valley. |
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The catacombs, and the lovingly tended graves within, have embalmed the lives and loves of centuries past in a deathly stillness, broken only by the babble of a passing brook. |
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Jacob Bernstein on how the nouveau young socialite has the old guard rolling in their graves. |
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In centuries past, graves would be exhumed, and any bones remaining would be collected and buried deeper down, thereby allowing fresh graves on top. |
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One by one, Khmer Rouge leaders are taking their secrets to their graves. |
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We can also assist in the tracing of war graves, and whenever it is possible we operate a free grave or memorial photography service for those people who are unable to travel. |
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Excavation of the graves revealed an astonishing world of pagan beliefs. |
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And in all the rest of the world, half a dozen old men, if so many, tottering toward their graves. |
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Burial is in local cemeteries, and family graves are well tended. |
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There was a telephone number to ring if one had graves in the churchyard. |
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When a family loses someone close, all they have is the grave, it's their only comfort and it's a sickening thought that people out there are ruining graves. |
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The area around the building has long been used as a burial ground for unbaptised children, and the small headstones marking these sad graves can be seen. |
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They'll bury the ashes in unmarked graves in unhallowed ground. |
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The French cemetery at Notre Dame de Lorette has 20,000 named graves and an ossuary with 20,000 unknown dead. |
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The mortal remains of the Prince and his next of kin and fellow exiles were then disentombed and returned to their homeland to be reburied in worthy graves. |
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The ghastly sight of mutilated corpses disinterred from mass graves is psychologically incompatible with calculations about scarce resources, opportunity costs and trade-offs. |
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If it decides to allow it, people buried more than 100 years ago could be disinterred and then re-buried deeper underground leaving land above for new graves. |
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The four graves that exist in Hobart are in varying states of disrepair. |
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The seven monolithic churches were excavated out of the ground and are surrounded by trenches and courtyards with graves and hermit cells cut into the inner cliff face. |
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My parents were so angry and ashamed of me that they made me kneel in front of our ancestors' graves, ignify, and burn incense for, eighteen generations of live and dead relatives. |
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Among these latter Caddo groups, simple bowls and carinated bowls comprise between 57 and 70 percent of the vessels placed in the graves as burial offerings. |
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Memorial Day was originally known as Decoration Day because it was a time set aside to honor the nation's Civil War dead by decorating their graves. |
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In 1998 I visited the graves of two of my great-uncles in Northern France. |
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An Imber Day was also introduced so previous residents could return annually to tend graves, meet old friends and participate in Eucharist and evensong at St Giles' Church. |
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Sinn Fein is understood to have given assurances of fresh co-operation to identify their unmarked graves, allowing their families to lay them to rest. |
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Their graves are scattered throughout the length and breadth of Europe. |
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They recorded 10,549 graves on or near the railway in 144 cemeteries, failing to locate only 52 graves. |
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The result is that a lot of folks go to their graves feeling unrelieved remorse for disputes they had long ago with lovers, family members, business colleagues, and others. |
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Perhaps one of the things war monuments and graves do is to make you reflect on whether you would have the mettle to give your life for what you felt was right. |
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Now and again the speeches would be interrupted for volleys of gunfire over the graves and choruses of martial-sounding music from loudspeakers rigged up around the cemetery. |
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I hope they care deeply about the fact that when we find suffering and torture and mass graves, we weep for the citizens that are being brutalized by tyrants. |
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It is urgent that immediate action is taken to protect the graves. |
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Harry thought of Godric's Hollow, of graves Dumbledore had never mentioned there. |
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Fell or fled from a face that shed such grace as quickens the dust of graves. |
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They must all be spinning in their graves at this politically correct piffle. |
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The crew are all buried in Amersfoort and their graves are lovingly looked after by Dutch civilians. |
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In the same year Forbes also erected headstones to mark the mass graves of the clans. |
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Though Forbes's headstones mark the graves of the Jacobites, the location of the graves of about sixty Government soldiers is unknown. |
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Considering that the excavation only uncovered a small area of the cemetery, there may be as many as 100 graves. |
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Stability imposed with chemical weapons and security achieved with mass graves. |
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During the war, British dead were put into plastic body bags and buried in mass graves. |
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There are many such graves of suicides hereabouts, and the country folk shudder as they pass the whisht spots by night. |
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In addition, more than 600 Kuwaitis went missing during Iraq's occupation, approximately 375 remains were found in mass graves in Iraq. |
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The structures are associated with graves of rectangular shape that are flanked by vertical slabs, as also found in central Ethiopia. |
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The Francophobe preppies of yesteryear will be spinning in their graves. |
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In August 1699, the Olive Branch and Hopeful Beginning with 300 settlers arrived in Darien to find ruined huts and 400 overgrown graves. |
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The earliest evidence of habitation in the area dates back to ancient graves found near the Kype Water to the south of the district. |
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Over 200 graves were found in the churchyard and 60 around the friars' choir. |
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Many of the bodies recovered from the sea were buried nearby at St Gallgo's Church, Llanallgo, where the graves and a memorial can still be seen. |
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These lyrics mourned the fallen lying in their graves and threatened revenge. |
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Unfortunately, the skeletal remains in both graves turned out to significantly predate Rollo and therefore are not related to him. |
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Scramasaxes and arrowheads are numerous in Frankish graves even though the Byzantine historians do not assign them to the Franks. |
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The British forced the remaining SS guards to gather up the corpses and place them in mass graves. |
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The abbey graveyard contains the graves of many early Scottish Kings, as well as kings from Ireland, Norway and France. |
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Dog graves were prepared and gifted the same as human, with ochre, antler, and grave goods. |
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The earliest signs of occupation on Gugh are two groups each, of entrance graves and Bronze Age cairns. |
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There is also a cluster of nineteen cairns and a field system on the south part of Gugh along with a further two entrance graves. |
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Archaeological investigation of this period has highlighted several Celtic warrior graves with military equipment. |
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In the Urnfield period, inhumation and burial in single flat graves prevails, though some barrows exist. |
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As graves rarely overlap, they may have been marked by wooden posts or stones. |
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Originally, there was probably a wooden construction, since the graves are often positioned in a line. |
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There are few and modest grave goods, with the weapon deposits characteristic of migration period graves completely absent. |
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In particular, there is no change in burial practice, and tumulus warrior graves continued to be erected throughout Merovingian times. |
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The oldest graves consisted of wooden chambered cairns inside long barrows, but were later made in the form of passage graves and dolmens. |
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Most burials have been found in cemeteries, but solitary graves are not unknown. |
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Reports that the Bishop of Margus had crossed into Hun lands and desecrated royal graves further angered the Hun kings. |
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Their bodies were placed in unmarked graves in the Municipal Cemetery outside Budapest. |
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They have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace. |
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Back to Tolar and Kosse and Colorado City, they went to chop weeds and mow and plant and keep the graves of their parents and siblings. |
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Back then, archaeologist Dorothy Garrod and a team of women from the college excavated the graves using dessertspoons and toothbrushes. |
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The graves were not marked but it is believed that members of the 6th and 45th regiments and Cape Levy were buried there. |
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The northern hills, since urbanized, were bare and covered with traditional graves. |
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Small mustelids frequently inhabit the ancient stone graves, and the sites' bone records may to some extent reflect their diet. |
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Seven bodies were found on Tuesday in shallow graves in the Riyom area, around 30 km south of Jos. |
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The graves appear to be well formed and indicate the existence of burial rituals. |
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Inland they found more mounds, one containing acorns, which they exhumed and left, and more graves, which they decided not to dig. |
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These poles are, then, placed next to graves and are associated with death and the ancestral world. |
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In 1963, the graves of Ivan and his sons were excavated and examined by Soviet scientists. |
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He even forbade the use of crosses on graves and changed the names of towns and ranches to rid them of religious reference. |
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They are burial grounds and unmarked graves, and the camps are tombs. |
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One example is a series of many cairns marking British soldiers' mass graves at the site of the Battle of Isandlwana, South Africa. |
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To date, a total of 20 Kurgan graves have been unearthed at the site, nine of which were discovered during the recent excavations. |
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In Sweden by the 13th century menhirs were erected as markers for the graves of warriors. |
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The CWGC is notable for marking the graves identically, regardless of the rank, country of origin, race, or religion of the buried. |
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Our initial inspection shows that the graves affected have been knocked over, and we should be able to reerect them. |
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We walk among the graves of his family cemetery on the crest of the hill. |
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Beaker culture introduces the practice of burial in single graves, suggesting an Earlier Bronze Age social organisation of family groups. |
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So emboldened and careless did these body-snatchers become... that they no longer confined themselves to pauper graves. |
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Dancing on graves just makes the gravedancers look silly and annoys the crows. |
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This cemetery had a gravekeeper who kept the graves from getting muddled together with weeds and brambles. |
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It was also discovered for the first time that early Bronze Age people placed flowers in their graves. |
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The preferred method of burial seems to have been singular graves and cists in the east, or in small wedge tombs in the west. |
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They argue that this accounts for the high number of burials in the area and for the evidence of trauma deformity in some of the graves. |
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Tumuli graves had a chamber, rather large in some cases, lined with timber and with the body and grave goods set about the room. |
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Imported luxury art is sometimes found in rich elite graves in the later phases, and certainly had some influence on local styles. |
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Considering the early cemeteries of Kent, most relevant finds come from furnished graves with distinctive links to the Continent. |
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There are also a number of recorded cases of parts of animals being buried within such graves. |
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Soon after the dissolution of the abbey in 1539, during the reign of Henry VIII, the church was demolished, leaving the graves intact. |
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The royal graves and many others were probably rediscovered by chance in 1788 when a prison was being constructed by convicts on the site. |
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If I digg'd up thy forefathers graves, And hung their rotten coffins up in chains, It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart. |
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Entrance graves are either burial or ritual monuments and cairns are burial mounds. |
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The graves of Ferdinand Verbiest, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, and other missionaries are also there, and it became known as the Zhalan Cemetery. |
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They are usually in memory of the dead, though not necessarily placed at graves. |
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The structures are associated with graves of rectangular shape flanked by vertical slabs, as also found in central Ethiopia. |
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Some menhirs were broken up and incorporated into later passage graves, where they had new megalithic art carved with little regard for the previous pictures. |
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This pottery type is common in early tarand graves, and Lang confidently dated the sherd in question to the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age through the Roman Iron Age. |
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On Tuesday, authorities started excavating the graves, found in jungle in northern Perlis state, to confirm how many bodies they held, and who they were. |
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It was midnight on the 30th day of October 2003, when the graves began to shake and leper-looking fists punched through the thick crustation of soil. |
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The graves contain especially finely made pottery, animal bones, usually pork, sometimes gold rings or sheets, in exceptional cases miniature wagons. |
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In some cases, animal skulls, particularly oxen but also pig, were buried in human graves, a practice that was also found earlier in Roman Britain. |
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The remains of four blubber ovens or furnaces have been found on Gravneset, as well as a graveyard containing about 130 graves dating from the 17th to the late 18th century. |
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He created Lincoln Park by closing a cemetery filled with shallow graves, and in 1867, in response to an outbreak of cholera he helped establish a new Chicago Board of Health. |
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Finds are mostly from tumuli, flat graves and Brandgruben graves. |
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The dead were cremated, and their graves contain few burial goods. |
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In this humped meadow the individual graves are clothed in dogrose and montbretia, clumps of soiled-white lilies and the tut-tut-tutting wheatears. |
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When a flu pandemic leaves mass graves in its wake, humanity's only hope may lie in a special designer drug to cure and prevent the lethal disease. |
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West of the Elbe, some globular amphorae are found in megalithic graves. |
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Zeebrugge Memorial and graves from St James Cemetery in Dover. |
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But there has been absolutely no discussion about locating all the graves and exhuming the remains for a proper burial before building work starts. |
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A modern monument in the crypt lists him among the important graves lost. |
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Red ochre and deer antlers were placed in some graves, but not others. |
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Sometimes standing stone monuments are unrelated to known graves. |
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According to the present reviewer they are unlikely to be earlier than the early centuries AD when some of the artefact types occur in the Asura graves of the Ranchi plateau. |
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This typological trait also appears in funerary vessels in Urnfield culture graves in the North Tyrol Inn Valley, which date to the SB IIb and SB IIc phases. |
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There are several war graves from both wars in the graveyard Part of the church spire was knocked down by an escaped barrage balloon during the Second World War. |
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It is thought possible that the coin was dropped by a soldier who once served on the continent, while he visited the graves of his fallen comrades. |
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The settlement included an urupa that was being desecrated by the toilet blocks, thoughtless campers and 'archaeologists' who fossicked for artefacts among the graves. |
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Thomas Hampson in 1883 described 'Two Lads' as the graves of two children of a Saxon king, Edgar and recorded that Winter Hill was previously known as Edgar Hill. |
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In Harare, the city council offered free graves to cholera victims. |
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In May 1931 scientists of the National Museum of Denmark announced the finding of eighteen Viking graves with the remains of eighteen men in them. |
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Plea for the Disappeared FORMER Police Ombudswoman Nuala O'Loan helped launch a book on the Disappeared yesterday as a fresh appeal for information on their graves was made. |
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These were domestic dwellings with a mixture of Celtic and Dacian pottery, and several graves in the Celtic style containing vessels of Dacian type. |
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As Late Urnfield hoards often contain the same range of objects as earlier graves, some scholars interpret hoarding as a way to supply personal equipment for the hereafter. |
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These pins are very similar to examples found in passage graves in the Boyne Valley, another piece of evidence suggesting a linkage between the two cultures. |
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In this period, people were cremated and buried in simple graves. |
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Our group ventured down the steep rock steps and tunnels in the volcanic tufa that link the churches, many of whose surrounding walls contain graves and hermits' caves. |
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The daggers that largely replaced swords in chief's graves in the west were probably not serious weapons, but badges of rank, and used at the table. |
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Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes. |
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The War Graves Commission, which maintains war graves, was told of the graffiti on Monday and it will be assessing the damage to the stones. |
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As a precaution against the disease lingering, quick lime was poured into the graves. |
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They were digging building foundations, when they discovered 160 graves. |
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During the ceremony, the Army, RAAF and Indonesian Defence Force provided honour guards and members of Australia's Federation Guard fired volleys over the graves. |
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Dozens of blues musicians, some as famous as Bessie Smith, were buried in unmarked graves. |
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Five of the vessels from four burials contain clay residues, suggesting that pigments had been stored in them when they were placed in the graves. |
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Once cleaned and sealed in two body bags, the corpse will be driven to a fresh row of graves. |
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It minted its own currency and carved enormous monolithic steles such as the Obelisk of Axum to mark their emperors' graves. |
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The circles of stone are believed to mark associated graves. |
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