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Recent Examples of columbarium
Next to the chapel is a columbarium, a repository for the ashes of select members of the congregation.
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Ted Koppel, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
The challenges of life at Community First In the middle of Community First is a memorial garden with the ashes of dozens of residents who have died, their names etched into a granite columbarium.
—Lucy Tompkins Eli Durst, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
His grave is near the path dividing the southernmost section of the cemetery from the columbarium wall, where the urns are housed.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
For lack of a better option, both were placed in the columbarium, two more Does for the cemetery, and another story waiting to be told.
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David Reamer writes about Anchorage history, from murders and neighborhoods to churches and chinchillas.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
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Ted Koppel, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
The challenges of life at Community First In the middle of Community First is a memorial garden with the ashes of dozens of residents who have died, their names etched into a granite columbarium.
—Lucy Tompkins Eli Durst, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
His grave is near the path dividing the southernmost section of the cemetery from the columbarium wall, where the urns are housed.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
For lack of a better option, both were placed in the columbarium, two more Does for the cemetery, and another story waiting to be told.
Ask a historian
David Reamer writes about Anchorage history, from murders and neighborhoods to churches and chinchillas.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
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The glass doors were smashed and four suspects were arrested, the deputy mayor of the neighborhood where the mausoleum is located told the country’s main radio channel.Jean-Yves Kamale and Mark Banchereau, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2024
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To serve its Latino clientele, the cemetery is creating a five-story mausoleum designed by Lehrer Architects.R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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The House of Delamain specializes in cognac’s finest cru, Grande Champagne, and takes a non-interventionist and artisanal approach to reflect the history from the pre-cellar or a 13th century crypt that houses the once active antique alambique.Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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He is buried in a crypt at Resurrection Catholic Cemetery in Justice, not far from his parents and sisters.Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2024
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Fans were ecstatic to hear about receiving eight tracks from the vault.Michael Saponara, Billboard, 9 Dec. 2024
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And Anne Hathaway has pulled newsboy caps out from the early aughts vault.Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 3 Dec. 2024
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One morning the four of us climbed the bell tower of the Monolithic church in Saint-Emilion, a medieval marvel, then descended, following a guide, into the subterranean nave and catacombs.Jo Rodgers, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, the last viewers see of Pope and Sarah, they are trapped in the catacombs as floodwaters rush in from a brewing storm.Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
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Vivid scenes of Ancient Egyptian life A tomb more than 4,300 years old revealed a window into the era’s daily life when archaeologists found a series of colorful paintings inside.Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
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The surviving sailors could do little as the Oklahoma sank, turning it into a tomb.Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
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His third-floor office, in a dingy concrete building across a roaring four-lane road from the Ikeja market, is a charnel house of dead mobile phones.Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
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Out of this charnel house where an American flag hung at one end, technicians hoped to identify 388 sailors and Marines from the Oklahoma.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
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Spring Grove Cemetery in Spring Grove Village is one of the most historic cemeteries in the United States.Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 16 Dec. 2024
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When our first spouses died, they were each interred in different local cemeteries.R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 11 Dec. 2024
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Cut to everyone on the ranch preparing for John’s burial — and the metaphorical funeral of the Yellowstone itself.William Earl, Variety, 16 Dec. 2024
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Those efforts still failed to find any crash or burial sites associated with the crew of Little Joe.Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Columbarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columbarium. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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