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...young protagonist of The Coffin on the Hill climbs aboard a houseboat on the Yangtze River (Welch was born in Shanghai, where his father was a partner in a firm that managed rubber plantations): "Leaning forward and putting out my tongue I licked the brass rim of one of the portholes, in order to realize the ship with all my senses. Then I curled up in a corner of the fitted seat and felt like a mole, or some other perfectly happy blind animal, burrowing deeper and deeper, coming at last to its true home...
...babies die. A funeral for a child under three months of age costs $300 in Grand Boulevard, not including the grave. The coffin is pine, covered with white doeskin on the outside and crepe within. It measures between 24 in. and 30 in. in length by 12 in. in width. Sometimes, as a courtesy, the funeral director will include a pink or blue ribbon across the inside of the coffin...
...paid tribute to her. "Africans in this country are walking tall on the road she has blazed," Black Activist Mkhuseli Jack told mourners who gathered inside the church for the 90-minute service. Outside, in an emotional farewell, some 20,000 blacks filled the streets. As the flower-draped coffin was loaded into the hearse, they raised their fists in the black-power salute of the A.N.C. and chanted in the Xhosa language, "She is a soldier." Said the Rev. Allan Boesak: "Molly continues in death what she did all her life. She brings us together...
...Beirut last May by the shadowy pro-Iranian Shi'ite-dominated terrorist organization Islamic Jihad, purportedly had been executed as a French spy. The terrorists released three black-and-white photographs that showed a bare-chested Seurat with unfocused, half-closed eyes, a shrouded figure in a closed coffin. Although his body has not yet been found, there appeared to be little hope that he was still alive...
When archaeologist Howard Carter discovered King Tut's tomb in 1922, he found the mummy in an elaborate coffin cradled in a red quartzite sarcophagus. When Carter's team tried to remove the mummy, they found that it had become stuck to the innermost coffin. Unfortunately, their solution was to cut out the mummy, which damaged it extensively. The CT scans enabled scientists to distinguish that damage from injuries Tut suffered when he was alive...