The Six Nations 2019. Hold the press, someone has invented some spooky mind ray thing and they are somehow extracting thoughts, I blame the Google Street View van. It must have some clever gizmo on it that is harvesting thought waves. This must be the only plausible explanation, otherwise how else could the advertising agency…
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The Vatican’s position on the ashes of saints
The Vatican has updated it rules on relics these are body parts (and more historically) including associated items of a saint. There has been issues recently when surviving family members disagree with what the Catholic church wishes to do body of a person once they have given saint status. The rules were last updated in…
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Julius Caesar’s soul was carried to the heaven by an eagle
Julius Caesar arguably one off the most important figures in western history was assassinated on the Ides of March (15 March) 44 BC. When Caesar died, his body was taken to The Forum to be cremated, the crowd that witnessed this was much larger than had been expected causing mayhem, and his funeral pyre burnt slightly out of control causing…
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Repatriation of ashes or sending ashes abroad
Sending ashes abroad or repatriating them can be a difficult problem, few couriers are willing to handle them, mainly due to the fact that they are beyond value to a loved one – so how could you put a price on that? The second issue is the paperwork – every country seems to have…
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Venice – the ideal destination to scatter your ashes?
Scattering ashes over water is symbolic whether over the sea or a river. And so many people have strong connection to enchanting city of Venice – so what better place than to scatter them than over the famous lagoon. Every year there are a huge number of requests for people to be scattered at the…
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