Word: burial
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Although it took him another 10 years of slow, patient work, Kelso eventually managed to map out the triangle shape of the fort along with the foundations of at least five buildings, several wells and a burial ground. His team has also dug up more than a million artifacts, about twice the number found over the previous half-century, including arms and armor, pottery, clay pipes, clothing and shoes, iron tools, jewelry, animal bones, trade beads, sheets of copper and hundreds of stone points. Individually, these objects seem trivial. Taken together, however, they're yielding an extraordinary picture...
...exception: he had instinctive grasp of things. He felt instinctively what he had to do to win. At the time, he knew as instinctively that he had to apologize publicly for the death of the three young boys who died in the August confusion. They were given heroes' burial, and Yeltsin made a moving and appealing apology to the people. 'Forgive me, your President, for having failed to save your children.' The country wept. Five years later, he offered no apology for thousands dying on the both sides of the war in Chechnya. He was a born politician, with...
...rampage, Kim and her relations remain very distraught over the ordeal, and at a loss to understand how Seung-Hui could have committed such an atrocity, bringing so much shame to his family. "In our family the children don't insult their parents," says Kim whose well-groomed family burial ground sits on a low rise at the back of her property and is visible from her front door. "I don't know how he could do this to his parents. I also feel terrible for the victim's families...
...Thompson ’09 and emphasizes the connections of the characters (most of whom are farmers) with the earth, is amazing. It consists of several rows of uprooted trees which hover behind the main part of the stage. Rows of dirt, which the characters use to imply burial, cross the stage. The overall effect manages to create both a sense of unreality and of day-to-day existence...
...There was director James Cameron, towering like a a six-foot-plus druidic monolith in a dark jacket and black turtleneck. And there was a light tan limestone box about two feet long lying on a table in front of Cameron - which the Titanic director was presenting as the burial box of Jesus Christ. All things being equal, we know who would be the bigger draw. (It was John Lennon who said he was bigger than Jesus, not Cameron, right?) But all things were not equal. Those in the room knew that Cameron was provably authentic. The other guy? Much...