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  2. Smith's Chapel - Wikipedia

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    Smith's Chapel is a single-story wood frame post-and-beam chapel with clapboard siding and a gable roof on a fieldstone foundation. [2] It measures 40 by 48 feet (12 m × 15 m), with a hallway 8 feet (2.4 m) wide across the front, and a 40-by-40-foot (12 m × 12 m) sanctuary.

  3. Veneration of the dead - Wikipedia

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    Mummification was a way to preserve the corpse so the ka (soul) of the deceased could return to receive offerings of the things s/he enjoyed while alive. If mummification was not affordable, a "ka-statue" in the likeness of the deceased was carved for this purpose. The Blessed Dead were collectively called the akhu, or "shining ones" (singular: akh

  4. Military funerals in the United States - Wikipedia

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    "Honoring Those Who Served" is the title of the program for instituting a dignified military funeral with full honors to the nation's veterans. As of January 1, 2000, Section 578 of Public Law 106-65 of the National Defense Authorization Act mandates that the United States Armed Forces shall provide the rendering of honors in a military funeral ...

  5. What is Day of the Dead? Ultimate guide to traditions, dates ...

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    Honoring and remembering: Families create altars or ofrendas in their homes or at gravesites to celebrate their loved ones. These altars are adorned with photographs, candles, flowers ...

  6. 45 Grandparents Day Prayers to Honor the Special Elders in ...

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    21. "God, bless the grandparents who've perfected the 'I'm not sleeping, just resting my eyes' move." 22. "Dear Lord, give our grandparents the patience to teach us how to drive without freaking ...

  7. Funerary art - Wikipedia

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    The chamber decoration usually centred on a "false door", through which only the soul of the deceased could pass, to receive the offerings left by the living. [18] Representational art, such as portraiture of the deceased, is found extremely early on and continues into the Roman period in the encaustic Faiyum funerary portraits applied to coffins.

  8. White Chapel Memorial Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    White Chapel Memorial Cemetery or simply White Chapel Cemetery is a memorial cemetery at 621 West Long Lake Road in Troy, Oakland County, Michigan.In the 1920s, a group of investors led by Clarence J. Sanger had a new vision for a cemetery and proposed their idea to Detroit architect Alvin Harley.

  9. Will military funeral honors cease to exist? Concerns rise as ...

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    Michelle Ray, 70, of West Jefferson, lost her husband Tom in December. He was a U.S. Army veteran who served in Vietnam and had military funeral honors performed by the Hilliard VFW Post Honor ...