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  1. whoosh

    VIDEO London's Railway of the Dead: The Brookwood Necropolis Service

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    NEWS Ebola crisis: Struggling to change behaviour in Sierra Leone

    For weeks it has been the same here in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. Every day the Ebola burial teams - now well organised and promptly dispatched - collect about 60 bodies from around the city and its crowded suburbs. Some days it is 50, sometimes as many as 80. About 20% of those bodies...
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    VIDEO Goose Makes a Deer Friend at a Buffalo Cemetery

    An unusual springtime friendship between a deer and a nesting goose appears to have blossomed inside a Buffalo cemetery. For the past week or so, the deer has been standing near an urn where the goose has taken up residence, positioning itself between the urn and any passing car or foot traffic...
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    Body of TV quizmaster snatched from grave

    Link Removed due to 404 Error ROME (Reuters) – The body of Mike Bongiorno, who was Italy's top quiz show host for more than 50 years and a close friend of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, was stolen from his grave, officials said on Tuesday. Bongiorno, who died in Sept 2009 at the age...
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  5. Super Sarge

    For those that served

    I just wanted to get the day over with and go down to Smokey's. Sneaking a look at my watch, I saw the time, 16:55. Five minutes to go before the cemetery gates are closed for the day. Full dress was hot in the August sun. Oklahoma summertime was as bad as ever--the heat and humidity at the...
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