Word: mortician
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...book about death." From Damascus to Jerusalem to Philadelphia (oddly, one of the relic capitals of the world), Manseau recounts his journey to find religious objects that have captivated the faithful for centuries and his encounters with modern pilgrims along the way. This includes a French mortician who analyzes the charred remains of Joan of Arc; a Sri Lankan tour guide who makes his living at the Temple of the Holy Tooth; a Syrian boy whose playground includes the al-Jami al-Kabir mosque in Damascus; and a Pakistani man who, when asked if he felt closer to Muhammad after...
...Oscar gold. The path that led Japan to take its first Oscar in Best Foreign Language film at this week's Academy Awards started with the film's lead actor, Masahiro Motoki, contacting author Shinmon Aoki to quote a passage of his novel Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician in the actor's own travel diary. "Maggots are life, too," the passage, in the voice of the novel's protagonist, reads. "When I thought that, I could see the maggots shining...
...President George Washington to proclaim a national day of giving thanks - which he did, and the holiday stuck. But today's Americans may find some more recent observances to be slightly less universally appealing: Among the red-letter days proclaimed by the past few Congresses are Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day (March 11), the Day of the American Cowboy (July 26), Siblings Connection Day (March 1) and Corvette Day (June...
...daughter Elisa, 21, walked away from the wreck of a car she had driven into two trees. She said she had been tired. Apparently she had fallen asleep at the wheel. There were two bodies in the car, her mother Minda and her father Michael, whose face, says a mortician who helped prepare the body for cremation 48 hours later, was damaged beyond recognition...
...looking into the accident. His daughter, who could not be reached for comment, identified the bodies as those of her parents. Nevertheless, Marrogi and his lawyers, Peter Butler and Christopher Beary, say they have tantalizing clues that Gerber could still be alive. When their private detective, Ted Hembree, showed mortician Fred Adomat a color photograph of Gerber, Adomat responded that the male in the picture "was not the male victim that he had observed and attempted to work on." Adomat said the male victim was much darker, but he added that the face had been badly damaged. Hembree also interviewed...