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  2. List of largest funerals - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Cremation in Ireland - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Cremation - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Men armed with machetes and shovels fight in cemetery during ...

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    Nine funeral-goers have been jailed after a shocking feud between two family factions boiled over into extreme violence at the Morriston Crematorium in Swansea. Video released by South Wales ...

  6. List of Irish state funerals - Wikipedia

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    Former Taoisigh John A. Costello [19] and Liam Cosgrave did not receive state funerals, at the request of their respective families. [52] Similarly, a 1948 press release at the repatriation by LÉ Macha of the remains of W. B. Yeats, who had died in France in 1939, stated "The Government was, of course, desirous to accord full State honours in connection with the funeral, but considered it ...

  7. North Devon Crematorium - Wikipedia

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    North Devon Crematorium is located within landscaped memorial gardens where ashes can be interred and with a car park for 130 vehicles onsite. There is substantial on-street parking available just outside the crematorium. [2] Services are booked for 40 minute slots with the ability to book a double slot.

  8. Funeral - Wikipedia

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    A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. [1] Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.

  9. Three people killed in head-on crash on I-86 in Chemung ... - AOL

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    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.