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  2. Burial vault (enclosure) - Wikipedia

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    Burial vault (enclosure) A burial vault (also known as a burial liner, grave vault, and grave liner) is a container, formerly made of wood or brick but more often today made of metal or concrete, that encloses a coffin to help prevent a grave from sinking. Wooden coffins (or caskets) decompose, and often the weight of earth on top of the coffin ...

  3. 15 '50s Cars That Were Just Really Ugly - AOL

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    1. BMW Isetta. The BMW Isetta was introduced in 1955, and over 160,000 units were made from 1955 to 1962 —it was the top-selling single-cylinder car in the world.

  4. Chase Vault - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Hearse - Wikipedia

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    A hearse is a large vehicle, originally a horse carriage but later with the introduction of motor vehicles, a car, used to carry the body of a deceased person in a casket at a funeral, wake, or graveside service. They range from deliberately anonymous vehicles to heavily decorated vehicles. In the funeral trade of some countries hearses are ...

  6. Remember These Classic Family Cars Over the Past 50 Years - AOL

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    Chevrolet Impala. Years produced: 1958-2020. Original starting price: $1,735. Gorgeous as a convertible, practical as a sedan, and serviceable as a wagon, the Impala has spent the better portion ...

  7. United Arab Emirates - Wikipedia

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    In fact, just over eighty per cent of Emirati workers hold government posts, with many of the rest taking part in state-owned enterprises such as Emirates airlines and Dubai Properties. Western states, including the United Kingdom, were also warned by the Emirati Trade Minister, Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi to keep politics separate from trade ...

  8. Coffin ship - Wikipedia

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    Replica of the "good ship" Jeanie Johnston, which sailed during the Great Hunger when coffin ships were common. No one ever died on the Jeanie Johnson. A coffin ship ( Irish: long cónra) is a popular idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced by the Highland Clearances.

  9. 'Steve Harvey' features women in their 70s who look decades ...

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    The ladies are all pushing 80 -- Mimi is 75, Annette is 72 and Linda is 71 -- but they look decades younger. Not a single one of those women looked over 40, let alone in their 70s. Mimi and ...