For the women fortunate enough to have positively identified and laid to rest the body of an exhumed loved one, in so many cases it was by recognising the colour and feeling the knit or weave of the fabric wrapped around the remains.
If they are confirmed as those of the former king, they are likely to be laid to rest in the city's cathedral -- already home to a memorial to Richard III -- and may even be given a state funeral.
Litvinenko's coffin, a dark-stained Jacobean oak Garratt casket, was due to be driven around the perimeter of the cemetery before being laid to rest at the burial site in a non-denominational service, the UK's Press Association reported.
Her funeral is to be held on Saturday at the palace, and she will be laid to rest at the royal burial grounds in Haga Park on the outskirts of Stockholm, next to Bertil.
Amid tight security, the two boys were laid to rest in the village of Cabra on Sunday.
There the bodies of Voltaire and Rousseau were laid to rest with the blessing of the French state.
On Saturday, the controversy will be laid to rest, as the fairytale unfolds.
However, the Plantagenet Alliance, which includes 15 of Richard III's relatives, want the licence to be overturned and the king to be laid to rest in York Minster.
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Big Luciano, the king of the high seas and Modena's favorite son, was then laid to rest at the Montale Rangone cemetery near his villa outside of town, close to where his parents are buried.
He spent most of his life in the Alentejo, and a visit to this under-developed part of Portugal reveals many links to his life, including the two places claiming to be his birthplace and the town where he was laid to rest.
Despite threats by vile nutters to disrupt the funeral, Elizabeth Edwards was quietly laid to rest today in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the age of 61.
It is mawkish and it attempts to resurrect an appeal in a type of Britishness that the 1960s laid to rest but which Bond has been giving moth-to-mouth ever since, never more so than here.
The Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (Faira) wants the skulls laid to rest as part of a worldwide campaign to return bones taken from graves by European collectors in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
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They will be laid to rest near the grave of the pilot, Wing Commander Herbert Dale, 33, from Preston, whose body was found shortly after the crash.
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But on Sunday afternoon, as a tireless patriot was laid to rest in the Jezreel Valley, the ground was not burning with missile fire, it was exploding with fecundity.
And was it really that same head, battered and worm-eaten, with an iron spike still rammed through the skull, that became a souvenir, a vulgar curiosity, a treasured relic and was finally in 1960 secretly laid to rest in the chapel of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where the young Cromwell briefly studied?
Yet on August 27th Jack Layton, leader of the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP), who died of cancer on August 22nd at the age of 61, will be laid to rest in Toronto with all the pomp and solemn ceremony that official Canada can muster.
None will drive growth by rationally reallocating capital, allowing new companies to generate the jobs needed to pull the country out of its malaise as old companies are properly laid to rest.
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To all our wounded warriors, and to the families who laid a loved one to rest.
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As soon as the 2011 OSU season was mercifully laid to rest, you decided to take the job when it was offered.
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Finally, the granite giant was laid to rest hovering over a 456ft-long, 15ft deep walkway at the museum, where visitors can walk beneath the massive rock to admire its immensity against the sky.
And obviously we all defend our Constitution and the First Amendment and free speech, but we also believe that when men and women die in the service of their country and are laid to rest, it should be done with the utmost honor and respect.
On this day of remembrance, let us rededicate ourselves to upholding the sacred trust we share with our Gold Star families and the heroes we have laid to rest.
But on the day that Meredith was laid to rest golf and tennis beckoned to retirees in radiant waves of sun, and the fishermen of Tarpon Cove sported cheerfully with the devilish snook.
His remains have been handed over to the Leicester Cathedral, where he will be laid to rest.
They were stunned to discover the remains were in surprisingly good condition - particularly given the fact they were apparently laid to rest in a simple shroud, with no coffin to protect them.
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He then commended his soul to God before the procession to the cathedral crypt where Cardinal Winning was laid to rest.
The ashes were to be scattered in two locations - at Paisley, Renfrewshire, where the remains of his mother were laid to rest, and at sea, to honour Mr Tye's Royal Navy career.
Because he stopped complaining, Davis felt that the issue had been laid to rest.
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