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  • 1Funeral Pall — • A black cloth usually spread over the coffin while the obsequies are performed for a deceased person Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Funeral Pall     Funeral Pall      …

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  • 2Funeral — This article is about the ceremony. For other uses, see Funeral (disambiguation). The funeral of Pope John Paul II A funeral is a ceremony for celebrating, sanctifying, or remembering the life of a person who has died. Funerary customs comprise… …

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  • 3Viking funeral — The Vikings often cremated their dead in ship burials, known from archaeology, sagas, Old Norse poetry, and notably from the account of Ahmad ibn Fadlan. The Viking funerals that took place on land have permitted archaeologists to study the… …

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  • 4Norse funeral — Ship burial of a Varangian Chieftain Heinrich Semiradzki (1883) Burial customs of Viking Age Norsemen (early medieval Scandinavians) are known both from archaeology and from historical accounts such as the Icelandic sagas, Old… …

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  • 5Police at the Funeral — infobox Book | name = Police at the Funeral image caption = 2007 Vintage pb cover author = Margery Allingham cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = Albert Campion genre = Crime novel publisher = Heinemann release date …

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  • 6Japanese funeral — A Japanese funeral includes a wake, the cremation of the deceased, a burial in a family grave, and a periodic memorial service. 99.82% of all deceased Japanese are cremated, according to 2005 statistics. [… …

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  • 7I'll Go to Bed at Noon — (2004), is a book by author Gerard Woodward. It was shortlisted for Booker Prize (2004). Set in the suburbs of north London around 1970, the story opens with Colette Jones attending the funeral of her elder brother s wife, followed by her failed… …

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  • 8The Hours (novel) — infobox Book | name = The Hours title orig = translator = image caption = author = Michael Cunningham cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Novel publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux release date = 11… …

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  • 9Book of Abraham — For other meanings of this name, see Book of Abraham (disambiguation). A portion of the papyri considered by some to be source of the Book of Abraham. The difference between Egyptologists translation and Joseph Smith s interpretations have caused …

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  • 10Lippi, Fra Filippo — born с 1406, Florence died Oct. 8/10, 1469, Spoleto, Papal States Italian painter. In 1421 he became a Carmelite monk at Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence, where Masaccio was soon decorating the Brancacci Chapel with frescoes. Lippi himself… …

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