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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 day’s main attraction are 100 altars (ofrendas), erected along the avenues of mausoleums.R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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Hoxha’s mausoleum, a brutalist pyramid with the heroic lines of Agitprop posters, is currently cloaked in scaffolding, and his villa—a modernist royal palace in tropical gardens in Blloku—is set to be a cultural center.Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2023
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Gangster Bugsy Siegal, whose 1947 murder remains unsolved, is also a crypt resident.Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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An 1851 New York City ordinance prohibited full-body burials south of 86th Street unless the individual was to be placed in part of a family crypt.Christina Ray Stanton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024
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After his death, more than 60,000 of his 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden.Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
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The museum vault is 131 feet long and 32 feet high occupying three floors connected by a long, slanted ramp.Anthony DeMarco, Forbes, 21 Nov. 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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TikTok is always warning me not to venture into the Paris catacombs without a guide, but the beginning of the Opening Ceremony sent precocious children to run down there unattended.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
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In 1926, soldiers began guarding the tomb during daylight hours.Mark Jones, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2024
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However, on one occasion, a masked spirit appeared unexpectedly and began to dance among the tombs.Arath Zumaya Muñoz, Vogue, 2 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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Kfar Aza, a kibbutz close to the separation barrier with Gaza, was burned nearly to the ground: a charnel house.Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 28 Oct. 2023
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Net mortuary and cemetery sales decreased slightly to $6,814,331 from $7,234,031, with a reduction in cemetery pre-need sales.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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During the cholera outbreak in the mid-1800s, settlers turned to Indian Field to create a cemetery.Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024
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These burials are along the edges of the mounds, leaving much of the center of the mounds untouched.Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024
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The boy's body is set to be laid to rest Friday, with funeral services at St. Peter of Alcantara Church followed by a burial in St. Mary’s Parish Cemetery, both in Port Washington, Wisconsin.Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2024
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“Columbarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columbarium. Accessed 4 Dec. 2024.
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