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  2. Poltergeist (1982 film) - Wikipedia

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    Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and written by Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais, and Mark Victor from a story by Spielberg. It stars JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, and Beatrice Straight, and was produced by Spielberg and Frank Marshall.

  3. The Deep (1977 film) - Wikipedia

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    English. Budget. $9 million [1] or $8.5 million [2] Box office. $100 million [3] The Deep is a 1977 adventure film based on Peter Benchley 's 1976 novel of the same name. It was directed by Peter Yates, and stars Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset and Nick Nolte.

  4. Roman funerary art - Wikipedia

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    The funerary art of ancient Rome changed throughout the course of the Roman Republic and the Empire and took many different forms. There were two main burial practices used by the Romans throughout history, one being cremation, another inhumation. The vessels used for these practices include sarcophagi, ash chests, urns, and altars.

  5. Titan Casket - Wikipedia

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    Titan Casket was founded in 2016 as a vendor on Amazon by Scott Ginsberg. In 2018, he reached out to co-founders, Joshua Siegel and Elizabeth Siegel, and the three officially launched the company in January 2020. [3] In June 2022, Titan Casket raised $3.5 million in seed-round funding from Reformation Partners. [4][5]

  6. State funeral of Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    Washington, D.C. After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's body was carried by an honor guard to the White House on Saturday April 15, 1865. He lay in state in the East Room of the White House which was open to the public on Tuesday, April 18. On April 19, a funeral service was held and then the coffin, attended ...

  7. Coffin - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Hanging coffins - Wikipedia

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    Hanging coffins in China are known in Mandarin as xuanguan (simplified Chinese: 悬 棺; traditional Chinese: 懸 棺; pinyin: xuán guān) which also means "hanging coffin". They are an ancient funeral custom of some ethnic minorities. The most famous hanging coffins are those which were made by the Bo people (now extinct) of Sichuan and Yunnan.

  9. Music for Chameleons - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 978-0-394-50826-9. OCLC. 6223424. Music for Chameleons (1980) is a collection of short fiction and non-fiction by the American author Truman Capote. Capote's first collection of new material in fourteen years, Music for Chameleons spent sixteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, unprecedented for a collection of short works. [1]