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An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains. They are frequently used where burial space is scarce. A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary ("os" is "bone" in Latin [1]).
The popularity of Minecraft mods has been credited for helping Minecraft become one of the best-selling video games of all time. The first Minecraft mods worked by decompiling and modifying the Java source code of the game. The original version of the game, now called Minecraft: Java Edition, is still modded this way, but with more advanced tools.
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After this, the remains would be exhumed and moved to an ossuary or charnel house, thereby allowing the original burial place to be reused. In modern times, the use of charnel houses is a characteristic of cultures living in rocky or arid places, such as the Cyclades archipelago and other Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.
Kevin Winter/Getty. Sean Baker accepts the Best Picture award for "Anora" onstage during the 30th Annual Critics Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on Feb. 7, 2025 in Santa Monica, Calif.
A Wisconsin doctor ran seven marathons on seven continents, from Antarctica to North America, to raise awareness of testicular cancer after previously battling the disease.
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Reliever Kendall Graveman can earn up to $3.3 million for one year in his contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Graveman has a $1.35 million salary for this year in the deal announced Monday ...