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Dogs from Paul O'Grady's beloved Battersea Dogs & Cats Home formed a "guard of honour" outside St Rumwold's Church in Aldington, Kent, as the comedian's coffin was carried inside for his funeral ...
Animal mummy. Egyptian mummies of animals in the British Museum. Animal mummification was common in ancient Egypt. Animals were an important part of Egyptian culture, not only in their role as food and pets, but also for religious reasons. Many different types of animals were mummified, typically for four main purposes: to allow people's ...
Chase Vault. The Chase Vault is a burial vault in the cemetery of the Christ Church Parish Church in Oistins, Christ Church, Barbados, best known for a widespread urban legend of "mysterious moving coffins ". According to the story, each time the heavily sealed marble vault had been opened for the burial of a family member including 1808, twice ...
As of 2017, the domestic cat was the second most popular pet in the United States, with 95.6 million cats owned [199] [200] and around 42 million households owning at least one cat. [201] In the United Kingdom , 26% of adults have a cat, with an estimated population of 10.9 million pet cats as of 2020.
00:40. Kentucky officials believe they have found the body of the suspected gunman in a highway shooting spree with the help of a couple who were livestreaming their search on YouTube and vultures ...
Coffin. A shop window display of coffins at a Polish funeral director's office. A casket showroom in Billings, Montana, depicting split lid coffins. A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, for either burial or cremation. Coffins are sometimes referred to as a casket, particularly in American English.
Andrew Loveridge, in his book Lion Hearted: The Life and Death of Cecil & the Future of Africa's Iconic Cats (2018), suggests that the hunters allowed Cecil to suffer for more than 10 hours, without hastening his death with a firearm, possibly to allow Palmer to submit the game to a hunting record book as an archery-hunted animal.
Anthropoid coffin and sarcophagus of priest Ken-Hor (26th Dynasty, c. 7th century BCE), in the Ägyptisches Museum Berlin. After having been preserved, the mummy was placed into a coffin. Although the coffins that housed the deceased bodies were made simply of wood, they were intricately painted and designed to suit each individual.