Word: burial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldier has on him a charm, worn in life to ward off death. Often a man draws about himself a magic circle (the round of his life is full; no escape) and puts a bullet in his head. Instead of cremating bodies to be returned home for proper Shinto burial, Army officers cut off heads, cremate them for home burial, and bury the bodies in China, or drop them in rivers or wells. All these things prey on the Japanese will to fight...
...Maine coast citizen meant being a citizen of the world." He relates how the couple spent the years of their wedded life continuously on the ocean: how their boys were born, raised, and schooled there; and how one was born and died there and was shipped home for burial. He draws a picture of a breed of American which belied its appearance and tradition of provincial simplicity by entering ports from Java to Cape Horn during a life of ocean travel. The Captains Pennell qualify the early 19th century Maine navigator as one of the greatest cosmopolites in American history...
...Crozet was absent. Graduates had hoped to have his remains enshrined on the campus by centennial time, had sought a permit of exhumation from Shockoe Cemetery in Richmond. Few days before, Elizabeth Wright Weddell, sister of Ambassador to Argentina Alexander Weddell, turned up records of the Colonel's burial (in 1864) in another cemetery. Regretfully, V. M. I. celebrated without its founder, hoped soon to bring him home...
Twice the corpse was pushed out to sea and twice returned. Solemn burial was finally held on land when Leo was hauled away and interred by a local resident...
...only Anglian burial ship ever found that vandals had not looted. In it was a king's cargo: plates of beaten silver delicately embossed, gold clasps inlaid with garnets and mosaic, a great gold buckle chased and ornamented with black enamel filling. Archeologists descending on the scene thought that the king was probably King Raedwald of East Anglia (now the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk), whose palace was at Rendlesham, four miles away. A coroner's jury, hastily convened, decided that plates and ornaments were treasure (abandoned publicly in the ground), not treasure trove (hidden for future gain...