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  • Instinctively, I made plans for family time alone just before interrment.

    Firedoglake » Pull Up a Chair… 2006

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Refugees from New Orleans behind barbed wire in Utah'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'What is it ... an interrment camp??'

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Refugees from New Orleans behind barbed wire in Utah 2005

  • Unlike the interrment in Yorkshire, however, where the vehicles were dismantled before burial, the Newbridge chariot, dating from around 250 B.C., was buried intact.

    Chariots of the Celts 2001

  • The religious idea behind this custom is that as a baby is born from the mother's womb through blood, so will rebirth occur (after interrment in Mother Earth) through blood.

    Louis Collins Mississippi John Hurt 1992

  • The religious idea behind this custom is that as a baby is born from the mother's womb through blood, so will rebirth occur (after interrment in Mother Earth) through blood.

    Louis Collins Mississippi John Hurt 1992

  • -- Such, indeed, of late years, was his disgusting appearance, that I beleive his body has not been cover'd with a Shirt, for a Single day, until that of his interrment.

    45 Letters to and from Jefferson, 1818-1819 1818

  • The body of singer James Brown was kept in a sealed gold casket inside his South Carolina home for more than two months before interrment in 2007 at the home of one of his daughters.

    News for Richmond Times-Dispatch 2009

  • Instead of traditional interrment ceremonies, there was a flyover, an aerial salute to Harrolle's career, at Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport.

    azcentral.com | news 2008

  • I'm deeply dissapointed but not surprised because of the sheer volume of pro-8 ads that focused over and over again that Prop 8 would REQUIRE schools to teach about gay marriage and felt that the anti-8 ads were too little too late, refuting the claims of gay marriage taught in school and focusing on discrimination, bringing up the fact that at one time inter-racial couples could not marry or the WW2 Japanese interrment camps.

    Irish Blogs 2008

  • They haven’t re-branded our Asian brothers and sisters since the Japanese interrment camps of the 1940s, but just about anything can trigger a venomous assault on any group of people at anytime.

    Think Progress » During an appearance yesterday 2006

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