A pyre (Ancient Greek: πυρά, romanized: purá; from πῦρ (pûr) 'fire'), also known as a funeral pyre, is a structure, usually made of wood, for burning a...
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The Funeral Pyre was an American blackened death metal band from La Habra, California. The band released four studio albums and various shorter works before...
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"Funeral Pyre" is The Jam's thirteenth single released on 29 May 1981. Backed by the B-side "Disguises", a cover of a Who track, it reached No. 4 in the...
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Ramdas Gandhi (category Indian expatriates in the Colony of Natal)
Gandhi was the one who lit the funeral pyre, as he had desired. He was joined by his younger brother Devdas Gandhi at the funeral. He died in 1969, aged 72...
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Sati (practice) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating citation to the NSRW)
which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre. Although it is debated whether it received scriptural mention in early...
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lighting of the funeral pyre. For a layperson, the posthumous ordination part of the ritual was the most vital, because without ordaining the deceased as...
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Sunanda Kumariratana (section Funeral)
detail. Chulalongkorn lit the funeral pyre around 6:00 p.m. on 15 March to the sound of horns, and the pyre burned throughout the night. Celebrations ended...
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Venom (comic book) (redirect from Venom: Funeral Pyre)
creation of the villain Pyre. According to DCD's 300 bestselling issues of 1993, Venom: Funeral Pyre #1 was number 72; sales declined for Funeral Pyre #2 and...
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James Bowie (category Army of the Republic of Texas officers killed in the Texas Revolution)
the battle, Juan Seguin returned to the Alamo and gathered the remaining ashes from the funeral pyre. He placed these in a coffin inscribed with the names...
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him and the government of India declared seven days of state mourning. He was cremated with full state honours on a traditional funeral pyre at Jannayak...
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