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...taken last week from three places in France: the spot at Ver-sur-Mer where Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd landed last year, from Picpus Cemetery where Lafayette is buried, from the battlefield near Luneville where the first Americans fell in the World War. This earth was sealed in an urn of bronze and gold. The urn was then carried to the U. S. where it will be placed upon the grave of the late Rodman Wanamaker, who did much to further friendship between the U. S. and France. Men will do much to beautify that which they find most terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Earth in an Urn | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

King Sisowath was lamented for seven months by his one hundred widows, and finally buried with pomp by French state officials. His body had remained seven months doubled up in an urn covered with mercury, aromatic oils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...famed cinemadog) was at home in Los Angeles, asleep. Burglars came, ransacked, walked off with a silver coffee urn, spoons, knives, forks. Rin Tin Tin did not awake, neither did his master, Lieut. Lee Duncan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Through his capital, Phnôm-Penh, the body of King Sisowath was borne, last week, in a jewel-studded golden urn, displayed atop a tall, pyramid-like funeral car. At the time of his death, the once straight and stocky King Sisowath, delight of his 100 wives, had been doubled up and forced into the urn. Over him was poured mercury and then a topping of aromatic oils. Previously the Monarch's eldest son, now King Monivong of Cambodia, had intoned in the dead King's ear: "May Buddha receive you. May Buddha receive you! MAY BUDDHA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pickled & Burned | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...Italian woman returned last week to Italy with two sorry souvenirs after a six-week visit to the U. S. She was Miss Luigia Vanzetti, aboard the S. S. Mauretania, with two urns. In one urn were half the ashes of Bartolomeo Vanzetti, her electrocuted, anarchist brother; in the other, half the ashes of Nicola Sacco, her brother's electrocuted, anarchist friend-murderers both, in the eyes of Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Ashes | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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