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    Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects....
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    Rag". The poem is divided into five sections. The first, "The Burial of the Dead", introduces the diverse themes of disillusionment and despair. The second...
    78 KB (10,607 words) - 01:54, 14 June 2024
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    prompted the Filipinos to create burial customs to honor the dead through prayers and rituals. Due to different cultures from various regions of the Philippines...
    60 KB (7,757 words) - 05:35, 29 May 2024
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    circumstances, as in the battle of Uhud. Enshrouding the dead body in a white cotton or linen cloth. Funeral prayer (صلاة الجنازة). Burial of the dead body in a...
    20 KB (2,268 words) - 17:34, 3 June 2024
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    Premature burial, also known as live burial, burial alive, or vivisepulture, means to be buried while still alive. Animals or humans may be buried alive...
    52 KB (5,797 words) - 01:16, 9 June 2024
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    Burial at sea is the disposal of human remains in the ocean, normally from a ship, boat or aircraft. It is regularly performed by navies, and is done...
    33 KB (4,243 words) - 18:49, 18 June 2024
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    Funeral (redirect from Burial rite)
    with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs...
    112 KB (13,976 words) - 18:10, 16 May 2024
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    A Christian burial is the burial of a deceased person with specifically Christian rites; typically, in consecrated ground. Until recent times Christians...
    53 KB (7,604 words) - 20:48, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of burial places of presidents and vice presidents of the United States
    Burial places of presidents and vice presidents of the United States are located across 23 states and the District of Columbia. Since the office was established...
    39 KB (1,212 words) - 09:14, 16 May 2024
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    Cemetery (redirect from Burial place)
    A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise...
    73 KB (8,579 words) - 16:11, 1 June 2024
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    Natural burial is the interment of the body of a dead person in the soil in a manner that does not inhibit decomposition but allows the body to be naturally...
    59 KB (5,927 words) - 22:10, 28 April 2024
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    ship burial or boat grave is a burial in which a ship or boat is used either as the tomb for the dead and the grave goods, or as a part of the grave...
    16 KB (1,960 words) - 19:50, 16 June 2024
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    fossils and rocks in palaeontology and geology and burial of the dead. There are a wide variety of reasons for which humans dig holes, trenches, and other...
    17 KB (1,880 words) - 06:35, 10 May 2024
  • Look up burial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Burial is the ritual act of placing a dead person or animal into the ground. Burial or The Burial may also...
    1 KB (175 words) - 03:14, 14 October 2023
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    Nepal, Bhutan, and parts of India such as Sikkim and Zanskar. The locations of preparation and sky burial are understood in the Vajrayana Buddhist traditions...
    22 KB (2,663 words) - 18:22, 31 May 2024
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    not made up of a series of discrete unconnected events. Instead, from the disarming to the burial of the dead, it consisted of a series of acts held together...
    81 KB (9,185 words) - 01:54, 25 May 2024
  • Parabalani (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    παράβολοι) were the members of a brotherhood, who in early Christianity voluntarily undertook the care of the sick and the burial of the dead, knowing that...
    3 KB (428 words) - 11:27, 17 June 2024
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    documented as those of the ancient Romans. The Mycenaeans practiced a burial of the dead, and did so consistently. The body of the deceased was prepared...
    13 KB (1,670 words) - 20:08, 27 February 2024
  • Ancient methods of disposing of dead bodies include cremation practiced by the Romans, Greeks, Hindus, and some Mayans; burial practiced by the Chinese, Japanese...
    27 KB (3,269 words) - 05:12, 9 April 2024
  • memory of the dead. Apart from the cremation method, several sects in Hinduism follow the practice of burial of the dead. In some sects, the important sadhus...
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