Word: burial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...funeral 10,000 police officers lined the pavement, helpless as their colleague was taken to his burial...
JERUSALEM Israeli soldiers beat to death a 15 year old Palestinian youth in the Gaza Strip and his burial yesterday turned into a violent protest in which troops shot and wounded four Arabs. U.N. and Arab reports said...
...Mahatma Gandhi and in later years an anti-mujahedin leftist. Khan died in Pakistan at age 98 and was buried in the Afghan city of Jalalabad. Afghan and Pakistani authorities allowed a funeral procession of some 2,000 vehicles to enter Afghanistan under Soviet military escort for the burial, which was attended by Najibullah. Just as Khan's body was being lowered into the ground, two bombs ripped through a parking area about half a mile away, killing a dozen people and wounding many more...
From the air, the Indian burial ground by the Ohio River in Union County, Kentucky, looks as if it has been ravaged by giant groundhogs. But the culprits responsible for digging 400 holes are a more predatory species. Artifact hunters tore up the gravesites late last year to excavate tomahawks, medicine pipes and other antiquities worth hundreds of dollars apiece. Last week in Morganfield, Ky., ten men were charged with overturning 1,200 graves dating back to the 15th century...
Even more impressive is Osiris and Isis. According to Egyptian mythology, the god Osiris was murdered and dismembered by his brother Set. All the parts of his body except the penis were then reassembled for burial by his sister- wife Isis, so that he could have eternal life. An immense liturgy of transformation grew from this myth, and Kiefer uses it to connect primal fertility rites to the no less awful mysteries of nuclear technology. The painting is filled by a gigantic step-pyramid, the site of Osiris' burial but also, by implication, a nuclear reactor. Osiris' body parts...