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51Norse funeral — Ship burial of a Varangian Chieftain Heinrich Semiradzki (1883) Burial customs of Viking Age Norsemen (early medieval Scandinavians) are known both from archaeology and from historical accounts such as the Icelandic sagas, Old… …
52Willow Rosenberg — Infobox Buffyverse Character Title=Willow Rosenberg Willow First= Welcome to the Hellmouth Creator=Joss Whedon Name=Willow Rosenberg Status=Alive Kind=Human Religion=Jewish/Wicca Affiliation=Scooby Gang, formerly Sunnydale High and UC Sunnydale… …
53Durrus and District History Modern — Durrus is an area of West Cork in Ireland. For earlier history, see Durrus and District History1900 2000 James Gilhooley M.P. and Elections 1910James Gilhooley MP (he had been a merchant in Bantry, and was jailed on a number of occaasions under… …
54literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
55Aegean civilizations — The Bronze Age civilizations that arose and flourished с 3000–1000 BC in the region bordering the Aegean Sea. They included Crete, the Cyclades, the Greek mainland south from Thessaly, including the Peloponnese, and Macedonia, Thrace, and western …
56Viking funeral — The Vikings often cremated their dead in ship burials, known from archaeology, sagas, Old Norse poetry, and notably from the account of Ahmad ibn Fadlan. The Viking funerals that took place on land have permitted archaeologists to study the… …
57Anthropology and Archaeology — ▪ 2009 Introduction Anthropology Among the key developments in 2008 in the field of physical anthropology was the discovery by a large interdisciplinary team of Spanish and American scientists in northern Spain of a partial mandible (lower… …
58BURIAL — In the Bible Decent burial was regarded to be of great importance in ancient Israel, as in the rest of the ancient Near East. Not only the Egyptians, whose extravagant provision for the dead is well known, but also the peoples of Mesopotamia… …
59Chukat — Chukat, Hukath, or Chukkas (Hebrew: חֻקַּת, “decree,” the ninth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parshah) is the 39th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the sixth in the book of Numbers. It …
60Batu Lintang camp — Infobox Military Structure name=Batu Lintang camp partof= location=Kuching, Sarawak coordinates= caption=Aerial view of part of Batu Lintang camp, prior to its liberation, 29 August 1945. In the foreground is the Roman Catholic priests compound.… …
