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Recent Examples of columbariumBut on a dreary Sunday afternoon last fall, bouquets of white roses and blue hydrangeas enlivened the Spanish marble columbarium where Drakeo the Ruler is interred.—Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025 Regent Barbara Weitz suggested building a columbarium under the football field where fans could have their ashes inurned as part of Memorial Stadium’s next renovation.—Jayna Bardahl, The Athletic, 15 Aug. 2024 In 2019, the group bought a columbarium with 96 niches to inter ashes for other kinds of service dogs.—Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2024 Next to the chapel is a columbarium, a repository for the ashes of select members of the congregation.—Ted Koppel, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024 See All Example Sentences for columbarium
The rituals also include his visits early next week to Ise, Japan’s top Shinto shrine, the mausoleum of the mythical first emperor Jinmu in Nara, as well as that of his late great-grandfather, wartime emperor Hirohito, in the Tokyo suburbs.
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Mari Yamaguchi,
Twin Cities,
6 Sep. 2025
The phone box has an important connection to its location, as the man who designed the K2 model of classic British phone boxes, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, drew inspiration from the Dulwich Picture Gallery's mausoleum when creating its unique shape.
The vault-like room with its large steel access doors held all of the recovered pieces—about 40 percent of the total orbiter—and was a departure from what NASA had done after its previous spaceflight disasters.
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Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
Faulí showed me where Gaudí had begun building a traditional Gothic rib to support the vault.
Thousands of homes and a sprawl of entire neighborhoods were transformed into outdoor charnel houses.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
10 Jan. 2025
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.
Stoughton man Camryn Guillaume was regularly dealing narcotics in a Randolph cemetery, police said.
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Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
16 Sep. 2025
In Florida, the Heritage Monitoring Scouts visit archaeological sites, including cemeteries, forts and mills, to record any impacts after extreme weather events.
The study team investigated 54 crouching burials that had previously been found at 11 archaeological sites.
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Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
15 Sep. 2025
The researchers concluded that many bodies were treated with prolonged smoke-drying over fire before burial, a practice the researchers believe is similar to mortuary traditions recorded among indigenous groups in Australia and the New Guinea Highlands.
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