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  2. The day they dug up Lee Harvey Oswald in Fort Worth: 1981 ...

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    Oct. 4, 1981: The casket containing Lee Harvey Oswald’s remains for 18 years was exhumed and moved into the privacy of a tent at Rose Hill Memorial Park in Fort Worth before it was taken to ...

  3. Post-mortem photography - Wikipedia

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    Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.

  4. Burial - Wikipedia

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    Exhumation of those killed in Bucha massacre in March 2022. Exhumation, or disinterment, is the act of digging something up, especially a corpse. This is most often done to relocate a body to a different burial spot; families may make this decision to locate the deceased in a more pertinent or convenient place.

  5. Officials exhume the body of a Mississippi man buried without ...

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    While Dexter Wade’s remains were released Monday, his family said officials failed to honor the agreed-upon time approved by a […] The post Officials exhume the body of a Mississippi man ...

  6. ‘Remarkable preserved condition.’ Nun’s exhumed body draws ...

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    Nun’s exhumed body draws hundreds to small Missouri town. Judy L. Thomas. May 22, 2023 at 10:44 PM. 1 / 2 ... “We just don’t have the capacity to receive all kinds of people. We’re ...

  7. Disposal of human corpses - Wikipedia

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    The disposal of human corpses, also called final disposition, is the practice and process of dealing with the remains of a deceased human being.Disposal methods may need to account for the fact that soft tissue will decompose relatively rapidly, while the skeleton will remain intact for thousands of years under certain conditions.

  8. Holy Innocents' Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Bodies were exhumed and the bones were moved to the Catacombs in 1786. [7] Many bodies had incompletely decomposed and had reduced into large deposits of fat ("corpse wax", or adipocere), chiefly in the form of palmitic acid. [8] During the exhumation, this fat was collected and subsequently turned into candles and soap made from human corpses. [9]

  9. At mass grave exhumation, daughter of Spanish Civil War ... - AOL

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    She hopes the answer will lie in an exhumation outside Madrid of the remains of more than 100 people who were executed by forces of late dictator Francisco Franco in 1939, in the aftermath of ...