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Last year, the United States accused Syria of executing thousands of imprisoned political opponents and burning their bodies in a crematorium.
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Plot is as untidy as life, and consequences crumble like so much ash in a crematoriumThe film opens in the middle of a conversation.
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All of these trails converge at the smoking makeshift crematorium, where a casual killer is determined to protect an ugly secret.
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In one spot, near the front wall along Franklin Street, the temperature soared to 3600 degrees, twice as hot as in a crematorium.
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Other groups, some speaking Hebrew and others Spanish, spent quiet minutes standing outside a building which once stored the gas chamber and still has the ovens used as a crematorium.
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The funeral home and crematorium had an arrangement with the Alabama Organ Center to collect tissues for life-saving transplants and medical research prior to the deceased being cremated.
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On the papal plane en route to Chile, Francis distributed to reporters a disturbing black-and-white photo of a child who, after the U.S. atomic bombardment of Nagasaki in 1945, carries his dead brother on his shoulders to a crematorium.
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On top of that, older dental fillings can release polluting mercury, which is why some crematoriums have installed mercury filters.
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First Known Use of crematorium
1880
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