Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though it had never been confirmed by the government, everyone in Nigeria knew that Ironsi, an Ibo tribesman and an Easterner, was shot to death six months ago by Northern army officers who toppled him in a coup. Ironsi's executioners first buried him in a shallow roadside grave, and then in a cemetery in the Western city of Ibadan. The decision to exhume Ironsi's remains and fly them East for burial in his home town of Imuahia Ibeku was a symbolic gesture in a campaign of national reconciliation...
...Dating from around A.D. 500, they stand only 6¾-in. high and represent dancers ready to perform in a nobleman's house. The piece was never meant to be seen by living eyes; like funeral objects found in Egyptian tombs, the sculpture was placed in the elegant grave of a dead princeling as a token of worldly pleasures to accompany him in the afterlife...
...headstrong political pragmatist who eventually came to count few men's counsel above his own. For Moley, disillusion set in soon. He left Washington in September 1933, after only six months as presidential assistant, emissary and speech collaborator. In this book, he builds a private monument over the grave of what he calls the First New Deal...
...lifted. In the U.S., attempted suicide is still a felony or a misdemeanor in nine states, though the laws are rarely enforced. Even the Roman Catholic Church has modified its position. It is not unusual these days to give a suicide a proper Roman Catholic funeral and a consecrated grave, on the ground "that his demented soul did not possess sufficient freedom of will for his heinous deed to constitute a mortal...
Hardening into rock, the lava became Herculaneum's unmarked tomb. The town's very location was lost until 1709, when monks in Resina, a city superimposed by chance on Herculaneum's grave, uncovered some marble theater seats while sinking a well. Other diggers plundered Herculaneum of everything their tunnels exposed. "It is one of the tragic ironies of human endeavor," writes Deiss, "that the suffocating mud did less damage to Herculaneum than the earliest excavators...