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The following year, Newlands Cross Cemetery, which opened the previous year, established a crematorium. [3] The Island Crematorium Company in County Cork was established around February 2005. [ 4 ] Cremation facilities were opened in County Cavan in mid-2015, in Dublin's Dardistown in October 2016 and in Shannon in 2017.
Funerals of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht: June 13, 1919 Weimar Republic: Berlin: 200,000 [12] Funeral of Michael Collins: August 28, 1922 Ireland: Dublin: 500,000 [13] Funeral of Rudolph Valentino: August 30, 1926 United States: New York City: at least 10,000 [14] State funeral of Jānis Čakste: March 18, 1927 Latvia: Rīga: up to ...
The cremation occurs in a cremator, which is located at a crematorium or crematory. In many countries, the crematorium is a venue for funerals as well as cremation. [14] A cremator is an industrial furnace that is able to generate temperatures of 871–982 °C (1,600–1,800 °F) to ensure the disintegration of the corpse. [41]
Maitland Crematorium, South Africa. A crematorium, crematory or cremation center/centre is a venue for the cremation of the dead. Modern crematoria contain at least one cremator (also known as a crematory, retort or cremation chamber), a purpose-built furnace. In some countries a crematorium can also be a venue for open-air cremation.
In the second half of the 19th century the Inverness Cemetery Company, a joint-stock company, developed the present-day cemetery and opened it in 1864. Although its design is attributed to Charles Heath Wilson , a great deal of the work was done by George Grant Mackay, a Scottish civil engineer.
New York State Police are investigating a two-car, head-on collision that killed three people late Friday afternoon on I-86 in the Town of Chemung.
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The Inverness Courier is a local, bi-weekly newspaper, published each Tuesday and Friday in Inverness, Scotland. [3] It reports on issues in Inverness and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. It is the longest, continually running local newspaper covering the area.