Word: burial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fragments of a Dharani Sutra, printed in 975 and deposited in the cavities made in the bricks that were used to build the Red Pagoda. When the Pagoda fall to ruin in 1924 a few copies were found still in fairly good condition despite nearly ten centuries of burial. The fragment is about three feet long, and two feet wide, or approximately one-half its original length...
...feet underground, lay there 72 days, set a new world's record, crawled out to be a hero. Waiting for him were 2,000 spectators and a police detective. The spectators surged through the ropes, forgot to pay their 25? fees, left Herbert Hannigan in debt for his burial expenses. Up stepped the detective with an old larceny warrant to take Herbert Hannigan to jail...
...Risk Being Buried Alive, a danger which few people realize. Join the Society for the Prevention of Premature Burial.--Secretary, 30, Castenau Gardens, Barnes, S.W.13...
...direct affront to President Knox. They accused him of permitting French papers in the Saar "to defame and vilify the late President von Hindenburg." Not without foundation, this charge referred to an item in the SaarbrÜcken Volksstimme which closed its report of the Feldmarschall's burial thus: "We will now dismiss von Hindenburg as a representative of soulless barbarism and of the Germany that turned its back upon civilization...
...irony was heightened when bustling Dr. Goebbels seized charge of preparations for Old Paul's funeral, shushed his son Col. Oscar von Hindenburg who wished the burial to take place in the family plot at Neudeck in East Prussia, and announced the von Hindenburg bones will lie in the Field Marshal's Tower of the huge, ugly, fortress-like memorial at Tannenberg. "Men only will be permitted to attend the funeral service," announced Dr. Goebbels. Correspondents were given privately to understand that it would be inappropriate for a German hero's obsequies to be marred by wailing women...