charnel house


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charnel house

A building or chamber for the deposit of the bones of the dead.
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162), opining that Shakespeare expressed a shallow but sincere wish that his bones not be moved to a charnel house, whereas readers 'yearn for a more profound sincerity' (p.
Newstok, Scott L., Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb
Donald Ortner and Bruno Frohlich provide a model and set a new standard for ancient Near Eastern bioarchaeological or osteoarchaeological research and publication with this volume on the shaft tombs and Charnel House burials excavated in 1977, 1979, and 1981 from EBA 1 Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan.
The Early Bronze Age I Tombs and Burials of Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan
Here the historic trail in the hills above the town takes in the imposing Church of St Anthony, built on the Italian Charnel House, which contains the remains of 7,014 Italian soldiers who perished in the fighting in the Upper Soca Valley.
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did I hear him call out to God or was it a curse to the fates that imprisoned him in a charnel house for the barely living?
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Ortner and Frohlich (both anthropologists, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute) write about the history of the excavations, the ecological and social context of the EB I people, and the methods of recovery and research; a varied cast of contributors follow with chapters on the cultural artifacts of the EB I tombs, the funerary traditions, the shaft tombs and charnel house excavated in 1977, the tombs excavated in 1979 and 1981, the osteology and paleodemography of the EB IA people, the paleopathology of the EB IA and IB people, a dental analysis of the human remains, and a summary of findings and conclusions.
The early Bronze Age tombs I and burials of Bab edh-Dhra, Jordan
Angular displays thrust purposefully out of the charnel house gloom as if to emphasise the seriousness and muscularity of the creative enterprise.
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At the ceremony attended by some 600 guests including Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and families of the war dead, the remains of 973 unknowns including those recovered by government missions from Russia were newly put into the cemetery's charnel house.
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How she could have stayed in this place as long as it took to do it, kept her imagination there, digging around those graves, those death camps, those ICUs, rooting around that charnel house, staring into that void.
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The result of such thinking is writ large across the history of the 20th century, in particular the history of Europe--turned twice in one generation into a charnel house of human bone and ash by secular political ideologies.
The ways of god and man: Muslim scholar Salim Mansur argues that Islam once reconciled human reason and divine revelation, leaving politics to prudence. And that Golden Age can come again
We all know that the scourge of Aids is reducing great swathes of Africa to little more than a charnel house.
Let's not close our eyes to the outside world; This wonderful sport
Either side, galleries lead us through the entire genesis of Guernica, punctuated by images as devastating as Picasso's Charnel House (1944-45).
Museum of the mind: Picasso and the Prado: an extraordinary double exhibition in Madrid demonstrates how Picasso forged a new language out of the past, and in particular out of his native country's national art collection
Even now my charnel house sensibility shows no signs of abating.
The hideous blank at 'Wolf Creek.'

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