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  • 61burial — n 1. funeral, exequies, obsequies, rites or ceremonies; burying, interment, entombment, inhumation, sepulture. 2. grave, graveyard, cemetery. See burial ground …

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  • 62burial — n. 1 a the burying of a dead body. b a funeral. 2 Archaeol. a grave or its remains. Phrases and idioms: burial ground a cemetery. Etymology: ME, erron. formed as sing. of OE byrgels f. Gmc: rel. to BURY …

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  • 63Burial at sea — for two casualties of a Japanese submarine attack on the US aircraft carrier USS Liscome Bay, November 1943 Burial at sea describes the procedure of disposing of human remains in the ocean, normally from a ship or boat. It is regularly performed… …

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  • 64Burial (disambiguation) — Burial is the act of placing a person or object into the ground.Burial may also refer to: * Buried ( Prison Break episode), a Prison Break episode *Burial (musician), a dubstep musician ** Burial (Burial album), his self titled album * Burial… …

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  • 65Burial, Christian — • The interment of a deceased person with ecclesiastical rites in consecrated ground Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 …

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  • 66Upper Burial Ground — Cemetery where 58 American soldiers are buried from the Battle of Germantown in the American Revolution. It is adjacent to the Concord Schoolhouse in Germantown, Philadelphia. Sources Jenkins, Charles Francis. The Guide Book to Historic… …

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  • 67military burial ground — military cemetery, cemetery for fallen soldiers …

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  • 68family burial ground — See family cemetery …

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  • 69Burial — This article is about human burial practices. For other uses, see Burial (disambiguation). Inhume redirects here. for the band, see Inhume (band). Underwater funeral in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea from an edition with drawings by… …

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  • 70burial — /ber ee euhl/, n. 1. the act or ceremony of burying. 2. the place of burying; grave. [1200 50; BURY + AL2; r. ME buriel, back formation from OE byrgels burial place, equiv. to byrg(an) to BURY + els n. suffix; cf. RIDDLE1] * * * Ritual disposal… …

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