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- Seyfarth Shaw Welcomes Mark W. Coffin and Elaine H. Tippitt as Partners to Corporate Practice Group in Houston
- HOUSTON -- Seyfarth Shaw LLP, one of America's leading full-service law firms, today announced that new partners Mark W. Coffin and Elaine H. Tippitt have joined Seyfarth Shaw's Corporate Practice Group in the firm's Houston office. Prior to joining Seyfarth Shaw, both were partners with Adams and Reese LLP. ...
- Research articles 2008-08-27
- Thousands welcome Zambian president's body in Lusaka
- LUSAKA AFP — Government officials joined thousands of mourners at Lusaka airport on Saturday to welcome the remains of Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, who died in a Paris hospital this week. Solemn music was played at the airport for the arrival of the plane bearing Mwanawasa's body. A Zambian...
- Research articles 2008-08-23
- Ancient royal burial ground found in Egypt: report
- CAIRO AFP — Archaeologists have uncovered ancient wooden coffins in what appears to be a royal burial ground near the necropolis of Abydos in southern Egypt, the state-run MENA news agency reported on Saturday. The agency said that the discovery, made by a team from the Supreme Council of...
- Research articles 2008-07-05
- 'Prince of fashion' Yves Saint Laurent given grand farewell
- PARIS AFP — With a military salute, crowds thronging the streets and the cream of global couture in attendance, France's "prince of fashion", Yves Saint Laurent, was given a grand send-off at his funeral Thursday. A bevy of celebrities including Catherine Deneuve, France's ex-supermodel first lady Carla Bruni, and...
- Research articles 2008-06-05
- 'Prince of fashion' Yves Saint Laurent given grand farewell
- PARIS AFP — With a military salute, crowds thronging the streets and the cream of global couture in attendance, France's "prince of fashion", Yves Saint Laurent, was given a grand send-off at his funeral Thursday. A bevy of celebrities including Catherine Deneuve, France's ex-supermodel first lady Carla Bruni, and...
- Research articles 2008-06-05
- Canadian late for own funeral after coffin misses flight
- OTTAWA AFP — A Canadian family's grief turned to outrage Tuesday after a deceased relative missed his own funeral because his coffin was bumped from a flight home to make room for luggage, media said Tuesday. Dennis Hamilton died suddenly last week while working in western Canada's oil-rich Alberta...
- Research articles 2008-04-08
- National briefs: BBC complaints
- A SCENE in BBC One soap EastEnders which showed a character being buried alive has prompted 167 complaints. The episode on Friday night showed character Max Branning being buried alive in a coffin by his wife and her lover. Viewers complained that it should not have been shown before 9pm.
- Research articles 2008-03-24
- Jordan buries Palestinian guerrilla leader Habash
- AMMAN AFP — George Habash, founder of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine that pioneered plane hijackings in the 1970s, was buried on Monday in Jordan, a kingdom that was once his sworn enemy. Around 2,000 mourners carried Palestinian flags and pictures of the veteran guerrilla...
- Research articles 2008-01-28
- Former Indonesian president Suharto laid to rest
- MATESIH, Indonesia AFP — Former Indonesian president Suharto was laid to rest with full military honours Monday, ending a controversial chapter in the history of the nation he ruled with an iron fist for 32 years. The ex-dictator, whose rule became a byword for rampant corruption and rights abuses...
- Research articles 2008-01-27
- World pays last respects to Everest conqueror Hillary
- AUCKLAND AFP — Sherpas, mountaineers and a grateful nation mourned Everest conqueror Edmund Hillary at a state funeral Tuesday, more than half a century after he first stood on the roof of the world. Thousands of mourners packed the church in Auckland, lined the streets as his coffin was...
- Research articles 2008-01-21
- Not dead yet, Chilean man wakes up at his own wake
- SANTIAGO AFP — An 81-year old man in the small Chilean village of Angol shocked his grieving relatives by waking up in his coffin at his own wake, local media said on Sunday. When Feliberto Carrasco's family members discovered his body limp and cold, they were convinced that the...
- Research articles 2008-01-20
- Hundreds queue to pay last respects to dance maestro Bejart
- LAUSANNE, Switzerland AFP — Hundreds of people waited patiently in line on Sunday to pay their last respects to the late French choreographer Maurice Bejart in his adopted hometown of Lausanne. Bejart, famed worldwide for both his avant-garde style and his desire to reconnect ballet to the masses, died...
- Research articles 2007-11-25
- Bury me with my phone, just in case
- LONDON AFP — Bury me naked. Put a mobile phone in the coffin. Cremate me with my pet's ashes. Bury me with my teeth in. And do make sure I'm actually dead. Those were some of the most popular requests by people planning their funerals, according to research by...
- Research articles 2007-10-17
- 50,000 watch final curtain call for Pavarotti
- MODENA, Italy AFP — Music and film stars joined top political figures and tens of thousands of tearful fans to honour opera legend Luciano Pavarotti at his funeral Saturday. About 800 family, friends and special guests heard special tributes to the venerated tenor from Pope Benedict XVI during a...
- Research articles 2007-09-07
- To die for: Rolls-Royce and 'green' coffins at British funerals
- LONDON AFP — Coffins shaped like a Rolls-Royce, a guitar or a ballet shoe are booming in Britain, where the latest unusual trend in funerals is for "green" burials, kind to the environment. Since 2000, Vic Fearn and Company have been making offbeat caskets which it markets under the...
- Research articles 2007-06-11
- Geometric puzzle design, 2d ed
- Geometric puzzle design, 2d ed. Coffin, Stewart. AK Peters Ltd. 2007 204 pages $39.00 Paperback QA95 This guide for hobbyists describes the design of handcrafted cubic block puzzles, burr puzzles, and polyhedral dissection variations traditionally made of wood, and explains how they...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Mix-up over body parts of British airmen killed in Afghanistan
- LONDON AFP — The Ministry of Defence confirmed news reports Sunday that the body parts of British airmen killed in the crash of a reconnaissance plane in Afghanistan had been put in the wrong coffins. An MoD spokesman said there had been a "regrettable incident" but that families of...
- Research articles 2007-04-28
- Russians bid tearful farewell to first democratic president
- MOSCOW AFP — Russia bid solemn farewell Wednesday to Boris Yeltsin with an ornate state funeral at which President Vladimir Putin and two former US presidents paid tribute to the man who brought democracy to the ruins of the Soviet Union. After lengthy ceremonies in Moscow's gold-domed Christ the...
- Research articles 2007-04-24
- Princess Diana's brother read eulogy to coffin
- LONDON AFP — The brother of the late princess Diana revealed Saturday that he read his eulogy to her coffin before he delivered the emotional speech at her 1997 funeral, watched the world over. Earl Charles Spencer's address in September 1997 was outspoken and provoked an unprecedented wave of...
- Research articles 2007-04-21
- Morbidly obese: bigger Britons need fatter furnaces
- LONDON AFP — Britain's growing obesity problem is forcing crematoria to build bigger furnaces because of the broader coffins of their expanding clientele, officials said Wednesday. Standard coffins are typically between 22-26 inches (55-65 centimetres) wide, but many undertakers now use super-size 40 inch-wide casks to accommodate bigger bodies....
- Research articles 2007-04-18
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