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Article: Putting a spin on death.(News)
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- Pretoria News (South Africa)
- Article date:
- July 16, 2008
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Ubud - Two Balinese royals were paraded on massive spinning pyres representing the universe at the start of a spectacular funeral rite yesterday, expected to draw hundreds of thousands of people. The procession took the bodies through the Indonesian hillside town of Ubud, the heartland of traditional Balinese arts. The pyres are spun to confuse the spirits before cremation.
Athens - One woman died on the Greek island of Rhodes yesterday during to a strong undersea earthquake measuring 6.3 points on the Richter scale. She tripped and fell down the stairs while fleeing from her house in the island village of Archangelos, deputy mayor Christos Argyrou said. The quake caused ...
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