Indian tour more important than Ashes: Katich

"Australian batsman Simon Katich reckons his team’s rivalry against India has become “bigger” than the Ashes in recent times and predicts the upcoming Test series in October will be tough for his side. Katich, who is currently in India leading the Australia ‘A’...

Abandoned ashes stack up at funeral homes

"BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- The abandoned ashes are stacked floor to ceiling in the basement of the Graham, Putnam and Mahoney Funeral Parlors, tucked neatly on wooden shelves and tables and in an unused dumbwaiter. ...

Thirteen arrested over Tuscan crematorium scam

This is just so sick.The funeral director and twelve other employees in Tuscany, Italy have been arrested for operating a crematorium scam, where they stored bodies with the corpses of cats and dogs, and burned them...

Hamburg fans stay eternally loyal with soccer cemetery

There are soccer fans. There are crazy soccer fans. And then there are soccer fans devoted enough to their team that they wish to be burried in a stadium-side grave at a cost of €2,500 (blue and white coloured...

Cremated remains of show organizer to be shot in fireworks at Indianapolis...

One of the fireworks bursting above the city this year will contain a bit of cremated remains – a fitting tribute, organizers say, to the man who ran the annual event for 40 years." Meredith Smith died in February at age 74. About a half-teaspoon of his ashes will be in...

Yves Saint Laurent's ashes scattered in Morocco

Morocco has given final adieu to its old time hero French fashiondesigner Yves Saint Laurent. Fashion icons ashes have been scattered inhis villa in Moroccan city of Marrakech. Although born in AlgeriaFashion icon...

THE man who invented the Pringles tube was so proud of it he has been BURIED ...

" THE man who invented the Pringles tube was so proud of it he has been BURIED in one. Designer Fred J. Baur asked for some of his ashes to be put in a can and interred in a grave in his home city. "

Update: Quebec Voltigeurs: Vow to rebuild armoury

This story is in relation to Greg1USA's covering of the story on the tragic fire at Quebecs Historic Armoury, the Armoury's Regiment have vowed to rebuild the armoury stone for stone to it's former glory.I have...

Mt Semeru showing signs of declining activity

Lumajang, East Java (ANTARA News) - Mount Semeru in East Java province showed signs of declining activity in the past week, spewing ashes 15 to 17 times once every four hours. The declining activity however caused...

Villages covered by Mt Soputan`s ashes

"The 1,783-meter volcano sent up ashes 1,000 to 1,500 meters into the sky at 09.15 a.m. on Thursday. "A number of villages in Southeast Minahasa district on which ashes had fallen have been put in a state of red...

Mt Soputan spews ashes

Manado, N Sulawesi (ANTARA News) - Mount Soputan in Indonesia`s northern-most province of North Sulawesi sent up ashes 1,500 meters into the sky at 09.15 a.m. on Thursday. Columns of brownish ashes and white clouds moved in westerly direction, an officer at the volcano`s...

.: My Lebanon is being burned to ashes: Explosion near Horsh Tabet :.

Lebanese Kataeb party member Antoine Ghanem was killed today in a huge bomb attack in Beirut.  So far the body count is six dead and ten wounded.  This will ripple into the refugee Palestinian community...

Ashy Thoughts Of A Crazy Senior

  What one does with one’s cremains has never really been much of a concern for me.  Not until a few weeks ago, when I read a news story about an Edmonton company offering to make you into a pencil and...

The Great Black Swamp

The Great Black Swamp in Ohio was as large as the Everglades, but covered with broad leaf trees:"“Water! Water! Water!” wrote an early surveyor of northwestern Ohio, “tall timber! deep water! Not a blade of...

James Doohan's Ashes Beamed Back Down to New Mexico

I, too was under the impression that Doohan's (who played Scotty in TV's Star Trek) ashes would remain in outer space, but I guess it was only a brief tour. At any rate, the temporarily-mislaid ashes have been...

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