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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a cemetery in Burnaby, British Columbia in Canada. The burial park was founded in 1936 and the funeral home was established in 1965. The cemetery contains the war graves of 37 Commonwealth service personnel of World War II. [1]
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
In 1985 Loewen Group went public and, in 1987, the company expanded into the United States. In the years that followed, Loewen rapidly expanded his company, purchasing hundreds of small independent funeral homes. By the mid-90s, the company had 15,000 employees and operated 1,115 funeral homes and was the world's second-largest funeral chain. [10]
One South Carolina man was killed and another was injured Tuesday night in a shooting, according to the Forest Acres Police Department.. The Richland County Coroner’s Office said 22-year-old ...
His obituary in the Vancouver News-Advertiser said of him "he was neither a politician nor a statesman, as judged by the usual standards applied to such, but was a very practical, hard-headed and level-headed legislator who knew what he wanted and usually took the shortest route to its accomplishment.
Peter II of Courtenay: 1219 Latin Empire: Unknown Latin Emperor: Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany: 1241-08-10 House of Plantagenet: Unknown Princess and potential heiress to her house as granddaughter of Henry II of England: Imprisoned by her uncle King John of England and cousin Henry III of England to prevent her potential claim, without trial ...
Courtney Gonsalves, 62, Guyanese cricketer. [577] Ahmad Sayyed Javadi, 95, Iranian political activist and politician, Minister of Justice (1979), Minister of Interior (1979). [578] Sir Michael Jenkins, 77, British diplomat, Ambassador to the Netherlands (1988–1993). [579] Bebe Lee, 96, American basketball coach and administrator. [580]