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  2. State funerals in the United States - Wikipedia

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    During the funeral service, military top brass sit in the north transept and extended family members sit in the south transept, if the funeral service is held at Washington National Cathedral. The length of these religious services has varied. More recent ones have tended to include multiple eulogies and thus have been longer.

  3. James Joyce - Wikipedia

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    Weaver financially supported Joyce throughout the entirety of his life and even paid for his funeral. [226] Between 1917 and the beginning of 1919, Joyce was financially secure and lived quite well; [227] the family sometimes stayed in Locarno in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland. [228] However, health problems remained a constant issue.

  4. L.D. Miller Funeral Home - Wikipedia

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    In either 1902 or 1903, Lee D. Miller established his funeral home and a livery barn on South Main Avenue in Sioux Falls. In 1923, Miller hired local architectural firm Perkins & McWayne to build a new, larger facility on the property, as Miller had just incorporated two other local funeral homes—Burnside Funeral Home and Joseph Nelson Funeral Home—into his.

  5. Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California) - Wikipedia

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    The Mountain View Cemetery is a 226-acre (91 ha) rural cemetery in Oakland, California, United States.It was established in 1863 by a group of East Bay pioneers under the California Rural Cemetery Act of 1859.

  6. Grant's Tomb - Wikipedia

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    On the same day as Ulysses's death, William Russell Grace, the mayor of New York City, sent a telegram to Julia offering New York City as the burial ground for both Grants. [11] [19] [20] Grace gave Julia a list of city parks where her husband could be buried, [10] [12] and she agreed to have Ulysses's remains interred in New York City. [21]

  7. Edwards Pierrepont - Wikipedia

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    The funeral services were done by Rev. Dr. Henry Y. Satterlee at Calvary Church on Wednesday March 9, at 10 am. Pierrepont's body was transferred to Garrison where he was buried at St. Philip's Cemetery, accompanied by 10 prominent pallbearers.

  8. List of Ulysses characters - Wikipedia

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    Leopold Bloom is a protagonist and hero in Joyce's Ulysses. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/Odysseus in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. The character was inspired by James Joyce's close friend, Aron Ettore Schmitz (Italo Svevo), author of Zeno's Conscience.

  9. Henry Wilson - Wikipedia

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    When Free Soil and abolitionist colleague Gerrit Smith died in New York City on December 28, 1874, Wilson traveled there to view the body and take part in funeral services. [104] Wilson's funeral procession passing New York City's St. Paul's Chapel. Published in Harper's Weekly. Wilson continued to go through bouts of ill health in 1875.