for their country. You might say veterans are the core of the country’s existence. When you go to Arlington National Cemetery; you cannot help but feel the presence of the souls of over 400‚000 military who served their country. We also have many cemeteries overseas where over 124‚000 veterans gave their lives for our freedom. I was able to visit the Cambridge American Cemetery in England‚ where over 3000 of our combat veterans are
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On Eating Elephants When I was younger‚ I compared my grandfather to that of an elephant‚ 13 feet tall‚ 15‚400 pounds‚ and a heart weighing up to 46 pounds. A big‚ broad‚ vulnerable creature‚ towering over the rest of the family. Ten months of hairy cell leukemia‚ a rare strand of the already rare strand of chronic lymphotic leukemia claiming his body made him so small‚ just skin and bones. My best friend sat 205 miles away over Skype and asked: “How do you get rid of an elephant in a room?” I imagined
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That summer of 1793 was inexplicably hot and unbearable. Alongside with the stifling heat‚ the Philadelphia was made to face one more‚ even more‚ dangerous problem: yellow fever. Fourteen-year-old Matilda (Mattie) Cook lived above a coffeehouse in Philadelphia during the late 1700’s. She shared the home with Lucille‚ her widowed mother‚ Captain William Farnsworth Cook‚ her grandfather who was a retired sailor along-with King George‚ his parrot‚ in addition to Silas‚ her orange cat. Lucille wasn’t
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Organizer: “Pericles’s Funeral Oration” by Thucydides Cloze: Filling in the Blanks from Pericles’s Oration Comprehension: Language and Ideas Read "Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg" by Abraham Lincoln Reading Graphic Organizer: "Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg" by Abraham Lincoln Study Club: Different Ideas and Purposes? Short Essay: Support for Purpose Note Cards: Which Kind of Information? © K12 Inc. AV011413 Thinking
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Hussein H. Marey Mahmoud Laboratory of Mural Paintings Conservation‚ Department of Conservation‚ Faculty of Archaeology‚ Cairo University‚ P.O. 12613 Giza‚ Egypt‚ marai79@hotmail.com ABSTRACT The early Christian cemetery in Egypt is located at Kharga Oasis in the western desert. The cemetery consists of 263 mud-brick chapels dating back to the 4th century AD. In the present study‚ micro-Raman analysis was used to study micro samples from the paint layers of the chapels murals. Raman spectra were collected
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Article # 4 Jewish Tombstones According to old laws and customs of Jewish ‚ after the death of a Jewish ‚he/she should be buried among Jews. It was not considered good for a Jew to be buried after his death in a mixed- denomination cemetery‚ the term matzevah ‚can also be called tombstone‚means“pillar‚ stone” .It is used to store old memories about some one.It is used to remind us of an individual gone from this world. The use of tombstones tells that a grave site was marked according
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always try to look around in my community‚ where I live‚ and not just in a broad sense of the word. So specifically here in Seattle‚ there are numerous examples of biodiversity in my community‚ and all around me. Cedar River Watershed Biodiversity Lichens and mosses on felsenmeer The Cedar River Watershed is a cross-section of habitat from the central Cascade Mountains crest to the Puget Sound lowlands. It provides protection to a rich biological diversity. The watershed contains old-growth and second-growth
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to Commander Richard Ewell to attack Cemetery Hill. Ewell took over as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia’s Second Corps after the previous commander‚ Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson‚ had sustained major injuries and died. After receiving these orders from Lee‚ Ewell declined them because he strongly believed that the Federal position was too strong. At dusk more Union Corps arrived‚ led by Winfield Scott Hancock‚ and they set up a defensive line from Cemetery Ridge to a hill known as Little Round
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go to the Cedar Forest to exterminate Humbaba‚ Enkidu agree to go there with him‚ although he knew that the journey would cost their life and it may not be worth it. On the other hand‚ Gilgamesh character was a spoiled king with extraordinary power given by him two-third divined being‚ arrogant and ignore people’s complaints. He did not care people life more than his fame. Gilgamesh did not have limitation such as he would not hold his position even to the gods as he went to the holy Cedar forest and
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funeral homes and more than 400 cemeteries in the U.S. and Canada; it also owned 32 funeral homes in the United Kingdom. The company had come a long way since its modest beginnings in Canada‚ where Ray Loewen‚ the founder (and‚ until recently‚ chairman and CEO)‚ started out helping his father run the family funeral business in the late 1950s. During the last two decades‚ Loewen Group had grown explosively‚ mainly by acquiring small independent funeral homes and cemeteries in densely populated urban
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