Every year on the Feast of St Michael, the townspeople propitiate the sea spirits by solemnly burning a boat and scattering its ashes on the water.
Sao Paulo (CNN) -- A Brazilian woman has confessed to shooting her husband, dismembering him and scattering the parts in a wooded area outside Sao Paulo, police said on Wednesday.
And a few years before that, an 80-tonne space rock called 2008 TC3 ploughed into the Earth's atmosphere, largely burning up and scattering fragments over the Sudan - just 20 hours after it was discovered.
Curls of shaved raw asparagus and a scattering of chopped Marcona almonds top off the plate.
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If you volunteer with three nonprofit organizations, select the most meaningful one, focus on it, and stop scattering your attention among all three.
W. Turner's watercolors and their proto-abstract sensibility as precursors to Sargent's, which often include their own nondescriptive forms, scattering and reforming themselves into depictions of places and things.
Electricity can move along them with little resistance, and without electrons scattering off in other directions as they do in metal wires.
Oliver Delaire, a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is spearheading research with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology using neutron scattering and computer simulations to tweak the structure and dynamics of thermoelectric materials.
What is new about Dr Cinzano's research, which is about to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, is that he and his colleagues have managed to take account of the effects of back-scattering by clouds and dust in the atmosphere, as well as the effects of the original sources of the light themselves.
Driven into their mountain jungle strongholds, the guerrillas now protect their encampment drug laboratories and movement corridors by scattering mines.
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Our correspondent said the plane broke up on impact, scattering debris and passengers' belongings across an area the size of a football pitch.
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From the pattern of this scattering, and from the sizes of the asteroids (which tells you how fast they will scatter), it is possible to calculate the date of the original collision.
Haynes unloaded its contents onto a table, scattering gold and silver coins and bars about a matter of minutes. (Worth: Well, a bit too much to say.) There was no mistaking the innate attraction.
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The municipality of Philipstown is composed of a scattering of villages and hamlets along the Hudson River, about fifty miles north of Manhattan in Putnam County.
From busy Colva, strike up north to the tiny villages of Majorda and Betelbatim, where a scattering of five-star resorts has actually helped keep smaller-scale shoulder-to-shoulder development at bay.
And on a postcard balanced on the edge of the table, in pencil, he scribbled a few hurried words to me, scattering exclamation points and expressing his delight and his love for the world.
And by careful crafting of the scattering pulses he was able to go all the way to that limit.
In his spare time he trained his instincts by field-stripping old watches, scattering the pieces, and teaching himself to put them back together like a jigsaw puzzle.
The many verses don't yield one tidy, linear tale: As happens on several of his new songs, Dylan free-associates, scattering disparate notions wildly and then seeking meaning in the array.
Garnished with a scattering of Pecorino Romano and a drizzle of black-truffle olive oil (fine, buttery olive oil also works well), this dish makes you wonder what other pantry ingredients Mr. Brock will have us reconsider.
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He disbanded the Iraqi army, scattering 300, 000 armed and unemployed men into the population.
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Viewers are scattering to tiny cable networks and Internet-delivered video, cutting average audiences for many traditional TV programs, including morning shows.
After eyeing our open-topped jeep, he made a nervous split-second decision to pounce, scattering the prey below, and vanished into the thick camouflage-scrub of the riverbank.
In the crowd there's a scattering of tats, beanies and sculpted beards that you might think belong more on Occupy Wall Street than a Republican rally.
Dot with the roughly chopped sun-dried tomatoes and, if you like, an extra scattering of thyme leaves.
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It is, but the amount of work pales to almost insignificance when compared to the alternative: rushing around like the Wicked Witch of the East, scattering signals to the wind, and wondering why houses keep dropping onto our heads.
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They live in a scattering of villages in Switzerland, Austria and northern Italy, and some still speak the Walser German dialect.
Nat Fraser allegedly removed her teeth, jewellery and other personal effects which might identify her before scattering the remains somewhere in Scotland.
The 3DMark DirectX 11 tech demo brings this scene to life with intelligent tessellation and advanced volumetric lighting using real-time light scattering.
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Researchers at the University of Arizona and Nitto Denko Technical used a blend of electrically responsive light-scattering polymers to make a holographic videoconferencing system.
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