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Cerussi and Donovan put the nail in the coffin with five seconds remaining in the first half by connecting for the second time for 34 yards to essentially finish things off with a dominating 34-7 halftime lead.
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Brian Fabry,
Boston Herald,
18 Oct. 2025
Israel has received a coffin carrying the body of a deceased hostage, the prime minister’s office said in a statement late Friday.
Solomon peppers his story with generational resentments and art-world posturing, while Soderbergh films the interiors of McKellen’s English townhouse like the inner workings of a sarcophagus.
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Joe Reid,
Vulture,
8 Sep. 2025
Archaeologists were unsure of what the entire scene depicted until the sarcophagus was handed over to the IAA's conservation team — who assembled the fragments.
The report, obtained by the Star-Telegram through a public records request, mentions two Facebook posts by Jones, but notes that none of the people captured on video dropping off the casket match her physical description.
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Amanda McCoy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 Oct. 2025
The lantern can make a skeleton pop out of the Forsaken Lake, activate audio effects at the Blind Tiger speakeasy front door, bring a terrifying spider tree to life, launch a newscast at a Gore-ing ‘20s newsstand and open the lid on a glowing casket.
While lying in state, the coffin was placed not on an elevated bier, but facing the pews.
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Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
25 Apr. 2025
Inside the 16th-century basilica, his casket won't be put on an elevated bier—as was the case with past popes—but will just be placed on the main alta, simply facing the pews.
With 2,000-year-old ancient Roman roads and Etruscan tombs, grand villas, papal palaces, charming medieval towns, rolling countryside, and unforgettable food and wine, Lazio has something for every traveler.
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Fulvio De Bonis,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Oct. 2025
Khentika's tomb is a mastaba, one of the few in Egypt to have a curse inscribed on its facade.
As Warner watched from a private box with his ankle in a cast along with wife Sydney and son Beau — to thunderous cheers when shown on the Jumbotron — the second-year linebacker from Florida State saw the game as a homage to his mentor.
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Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
20 Oct. 2025
Maintaining the tugboat became cumbersome, and three Zizian members opted to move into box trucks before squatting in a Bay Area trailer lot owned by Curtis Lind, then age 80, a former shipworker and grandfather of four.
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Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Oct. 2025
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