Word: pyre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argument ensued, and some of Waly's followers grabbed the lighted torches. One of them stumbled. A tree flared up with a whoosh. In panic, others threw their torches away. In a moment the yard became an oil-soaked pyre. The impregnated sawdust blazed like napalm, clinging to raw flesh, burning and spreading. The crowd, roaring with fear and pain, ran from side to side in the narrow schoolyard. But there was no escape: three of the walls were 10 feet high; the only exit was a narrow gate. It was over in 20 minutes: 33 died, hundreds more...
...that you will always have a wife who is mobile." She urged that bigamy be legalized "as at the end of the Thirty Years' war." But the war did not last 30 years. After performing the last rites at the Führer's funeral pyre in beaten Berlin, Bormann disappeared. His wife died in the Italian Alps a year later. For all their anti-Christian indoctrination, seven of their children have become Roman Catholics. The eldest, Hitler's godson, is training to become a priest...
...British rulers banned it more than a century ago, educated Hindus deplore it, and law forbids it. But suttee, a widow's ritual suicide upon her husband's funeral pyre, still takes place occasionally in modern India, for the final test of wifely purity sends a shiver of admiration through the devout...
Early the following morning, about 500 Rajasthanis gathered before the brigadier's funeral pyre. Of the brief time that followed, those who saw it tell two stories: some claim that Sugan, resplendent in her wedding dress, wrenched free from those who restrained her and threw herself into the flames; others, that she sat calm and upright upon the unlit pyre, her husband's head cradled in her lap, while relatives kindled the faggots. "All we know," said the Jodhpur police, "is that the lady died in the fire. Her intention seems to have been a well-kept family...
...Rights had several unique features, e.g., Moses' tomb ("No man knows where he is buried, and why not here?"), a rainmaking machine on the roof for poetic inspiration, and a funeral pyre intended for Joaquin's eventual use. The place ran on Joaquin's Law: no whisky before noon. On neighboring slopes, he planted some 75,000 trees. In 1892, in the Holy Grotto, as Joaquin called his writing room, he penned his best known poem, Columbus ("Sail on! Sail on! And on!") and got $50 for it. Later, when the poem had become a schoolroom staple...