Word: pyre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ariel put out to sea. A storm was brewing?a few days later Shelley and his friend were found dead on the beach. His corpse was "terrible to look upon for the face and hands and parts of the body had been eaten away by the fish." Upon a pyre, the last remains of Shelley were cremated in the presence of Byron and some friends...
...France fétes the memory of Ste. Jeanne d'Arc, an old woman of Saint Brieuc in Brittany cried : "I want to die like Jeanne d'Arc. France is ruined. I will save her!" She went to the carpenter, begged him to build her a pyre, but he refused. She went home, constructed her a pyre, drenched herself in paraffin, lay down, lit a match, was burned to death...
...tale which is embodied in I Compagnacci ("The Evil Companions") is laid in Florence during the days of Savonarola and around the historical episode in which the reformer monk defied his enemies to trial by fire. He and a rival monk would walk through a blazing pyre, the one who emerged unscathed would be pronounced by Heaven to be right...
BEAUTIES ON STOKES' LOVE PYRE...
General Dietrix's account of the murders agrees in the main with other reports, but sheds new light upon the unlovely incident. Hitherto no one has been able to explain the discovery of the religious icons which were found some distance away from the pyre upon which the bodies were burnt, and the failure of various investigators to find any teeth among the ashes. The icons, which were worn around the necks of the Imperial Family, were evidently displaced by the act of decapitation and the missing teeth were carried away with the heads. That the heads...