Some of the former king's ashes will be scattered at the confluence of three rivers and the remainder stored in an urn in the royal palace.
After his death, his body was burned, the bones wrapped in cloth and transported in an urn. 2, 800 years later, the remnants of that urn and cloth were discovered by modern-day researchers in Denmark.
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The bones, discovered on Mersea Island in 1912, were in a green glass urn, stored in a box that was inside a brick chamber.
His bones were wrapped in an Austrian nettle cloth and placed in a stately urn that his travel companions transported back to Denmark.
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The simultaneous 2005 release of I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn was accompanied by television and award-show appearances, officially marking Oberst's entry into stardom.
The gods-fearing athletes competed naked in events such as discus, pankration (a hybrid of boxing and wrestling) and deadly chariot races (animated on the side of a massive urn in the exhibition) to win olive wreaths and prizes like oil.
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Emperor Qianlong sent a golden urn to Lhasa, in which the names of candidates proposed for reincarnation would be placed.
But in the mid-1990s the urn was brought into service again.
In 1998 a pet lover named Barbara Dornan opened the urn from a competitor that held her lab dalmatian, Chips, who was cremated in 1983.
In Russia, tea is prepared in tea rooms using a samovar, an urn of hot water.
Indeed, the urn that the remains were found in was also from Central Europe.
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Each time the cardinals vote, they will proceed one by one to the chapel altar, where each will kneel in prayer before dropping his paper ballot into an urn.
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Thai royals, for example, historically had their bodies cremated many months after death, with their remains being moved from urn to urn until the final day of incineration, in the belief that the soul moves through a gradual transformation, exiting the earth and entering the spiritual world.
"I could stare at an urn, or I could stare at the ground in the cemetery, or I could hold and pet her, " Rosa said.
If you tell me in advance the color of the ball that you will pull out of the urn, you will win the prize.
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Gatting, whose 1986-87 tourists were written off in the media before winning Down Under, was at Lord's to see the delicate Ashes urn begin its three-month tour of six Australian cities.
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Australia meet England in the first Test in Brisbane on 25 November, but Vaughan claims a lack of firepower may hamper their attempt to regain the urn.
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