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He died a stateless person ; family and friends in London buried his body in Highgate Cemetery, London, on 17 March 1883.
He was honored with a state funeral and was buried in the Kremlin necropolis – the last person to be interred there.
Thus, in an 1831 letter from Lucy Mack Smith to her brother, she discusses Moroni as the person who buried the plates, but does not identify him as the unnamed " holy angel " that gave Smith the means to translate the golden plates.
This was in accordance with Mosaic Law, which stated that a person hanged on a tree must not be allowed to remain there at night, but should be buried before sundown.
Leaving aside the tales regarding miracles, in the Vita Sancti Niniani Ailred includes the following incidental information regarding Saint Ninian: that his father was a Christian king ; that he was consecrated a bishop in Rome and that he met Saint Martin in Tours ; that Saint Martin sent masons with him on his homeward journey, at his request ; that these masons built a church of stone, situated on the shore, and on learning of Saint Martin's death, Ninian dedicated the church to him ; that a certain rich and powerful " King Tuduvallus " was converted by him ; that he died after having converted the Picts and returned home, being buried in a stone sarcophagus near the altar of his church ; and that he had once travelled with a holy person named " Plebia ".
She was buried in Westminster Abbey, on 3 August, in what has been described as a " somewhat hard to find tomb " on the opposite side of Edward the Confessor's shrine and slightly above eye level for a person of average height.
Formerly, it was widely believed that to rise on judgement day the body had to be whole and preferably buried with the feet to the east so that the person would rise facing God.
Based on the belief that particular types of artifacts ( generally elements of personal adornment found in a funerary context ) are thought to determine the race or ethnicity of the person buried, the " Culture-History " school of archaeology assumed that archaeological cultures represent the Urheimat ( homeland ) of tribal polities named in historical sources.
Dodds describes this experience in his autobiography: “ The jazz played after New Orleans funerals didn ’ t show any lack of respect for the person being buried.
Supposedly the first person to be killed by a tiger in England, Hannah Twynnoy, is buried in the churchyard.
It was believed that the person buried died of some disease presumed contagious, and thus the body was taken about a mile north from the current Route 20.
The last person buried in this cemetery was in 1940, although it is well maintained and cared for by the township trustees of Des Moines township.
Unfortunately, another person was subsequently injured while firing the cannon, and again it was buried, and has not been found again to this day.
Perhaps the most famous person to be buried in Coulsons Boothill cemetery is Muggins Taylor, the scout who carried the news of Custer's Last Stand to the world.
The first person to be buried in the church cemetery was John Witherspoon ( 1670-1737 ), the father of James Witherspoon, builder of Thorntree.
* The first person buried in the cemetery was " Diamond " Joe Thompson.
Qing Dynasty scholar Ji Xiaolan mentioned in his book Yuewei Caotang Biji ( 閱微草堂筆記 ) that the causes of a corpse being reanimated can be classified in two groups: a recently deceased person returning to life, and a long buried corpse not decomposing.
* The dead person is not buried even after a funeral has been held.
The disarrangement of the tiles was something fourth-century sextons regularly did when re-using materials already engraved, with the aim of indicating that it was not the same person who was now buried in the place.
However, this practice contradicted the Roman law that no person might be buried within the city.
The highest ranking person commemorated by the CWGC to be buried here is General Sir Charles Douglas ( 1850-1914 ), Chief of the Imperial General Staff at outbreak of the First World War.
There is at least one attested case of a person being buried upside down by instruction ; a Major Peter Labilliere of Dorking ( d. June 4, 1800 ) lies thus upon the summit of Box Hill.
In many cultures graves are marked with durable markers, or monuments, intended to help remind people of the buried person.
In rare cases, a known person may be buried without identification, perhaps to avoid desecration of the corpse, grave robbing, or vandalism of the burial site.

person and at
Begging my pardon, he must express his astonishment over seeing a person of my background applying at the hall.
It did not care what sort of person prowled its woods, plucked at its bark or stripped the berries from its bushes.
So the verdict was `` death at the hands of a person or persons unknown '', and the elite of the city, accepting Delphine's testimony, welcomed her and the doctor back into the fold.
At the time of his capture Helion had on his person a sketchbook he had bought at Woolworth's in New York.
What manner of person does Milton appear to have been when as an undergraduate he resided at Christ's College??
The entire exercise, Latin and English, is most suggestive of the kind of person Milton had become at Christ's during his undergraduate career ; ;
writes: Does numbness in the left hand at night, which awakens the person, indicate brain tumor??
One upward-mobile teacher may be a hard taskmaster for lower-class pupils because she wants them to develop the attitudes and skills that will enable them to climb, while another upward-mobile teacher may be a very permissive person with lower-class pupils because he knows their disadvantages and deprivations at home, and he hopes to encourage them by friendly treatment.
Emerson, in his lecture, refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before, whether dreaming or waking, a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue, at some former hour, they know not when ''.
The end or aim of the action, of course, is also important, especially where it is not alone a matter of changing community customs but of the use of deadly economic power to intimidate a person from stepping forward to claim his legal rights, e.g., against Negroes who register to vote in Fayette County, Tennessee, at the present moment.
The Department of Agriculture averaged out U.S. food consumption last year at 1,488 lbs. per person, which, allowing for the 17 million Americans that John Kennedy said go to bed hungry every night, means that certain gluttons on the upper end must somehow down 8 lbs. or more a day.
I guess it was at that moment that I realized what I was up against in the person of Lucille Warren.
" A person ranking at 7 on the scale would be a person who says " I know there is no God ..." Dawkins places himself at 6 on the scale, which he characterizes as " I cannot know for certain but I think God is very improbable, and I live my life on the assumption that he is not there ", but leaning toward 7.
Rather he disguises himself, referring to himself in the third person and only at the end of the novel reveals who he is.
The assembly line concept was independently redeveloped throughout history and not " invented " at one time by one person.
For the three days that it rests on Earth, righteous souls sit at the head of their body, chanting the Ustavaiti Gathas with joy, while a wicked person sits at the feet of the corpse, wails and recites the Yasna.
# A person who is skilled at some activity.
The word is also used in a qualitative sense of, a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, an artistic practice.
A person may be in possession of only three abalone at any given time.
* 1941 – Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 7: 12 am, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for treason.

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