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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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for columbarium
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The walls of the mausoleum for late President Hafez al-Assad are scrawled with graffiti now — things that Syrians have long felt but could never say aloud during his family’s five-decade dictatorship.Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
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Some remnants might be preserved in a mausoleum, an urn or even kept as a keepsake, close to a loved one.Simone Talma Flowers, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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See them In a cathedral crypt, royal treasures that had been hidden and lost for decades were uncovered, revealing a trove of historical artifacts.Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
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In 1931, a flood damaged the cathedral’s crypt, exposing the three rulers’ coffins.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
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Silvo isn't only welcomed by the security droids; he's also immediately taken down to the mint and into one of the vaults housing an absurd amount of Old Republic credits.Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 8 Jan. 2025
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The Mercantile vaults held silver heirlooms for families off to Bar Harbor in the summer.Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2025
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The building's basement was a 20,000-square-foot underground area, commonly known as the catacombs, that was used for things like storage, transport and drying meat.Justin L. Mack, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025
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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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That's where Joseph Keil found a skeleton in a sarcophagus filled with water, but for some reason, Keil only removed the cranium from the tomb before sealing it back up.Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2025
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The tomb provides insights into medical practices of the time and highlights the significance of such figures in ancient society.Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
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For the Himalayan monks of the early teen centuries, the ideal setting for initiation was a charnel ground, where people left their dead to be eaten by wild animals.Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
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Flaherty’s descriptions of both the highs (rubies) and lows (charnel houses) of nonstop writing struck me as alien.Molly Young, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
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Someone stole 200 bronze vases off graves in a San Francisco Bay Area cemetery, California sheriff’s officials reported.Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 16 Jan. 2025
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She was buried in an unmarked grave in a segregated cemetery.Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
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Los Angeles is currently burning and areas of Pasadena — Butler’s hometown, place of burial, and muse for her literary works — have either crumbled to ash or been evacuated entirely.Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025
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Finally, the researchers conducted radiocarbon dating work on some of the remains, combining this with information from the stratigraphy (the sequence of burial) and dates for other materials found in the area.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 11 Jan. 2025
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“Columbarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columbarium. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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