exhume

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• Beddoes as a writer of brief lyric poems, songs exhumed from the bodies of his dramas, and for the bizarre, sprawling Death's Jest Book. Introduction
• He will buried in the tomb left vacant after the remains of Pope John XXIII were exhumed from the cramped grotto under St. Peter's Basilica in 2001 and moved to the main floor following his beatification. USATODAY.com - Bells, white smoke to announce new pope
• Three to seven years after burial, the bones of the deceased are exhumed and placed in a family vault or a communal ossuary.
• It is of great significance to identify the location of the moat precisely to protect, exhume and utilize the site further.
• Champion Bobby Fischer were "exhumed" on Monday in the early hours of the morning. ChessBase News
• Pastor in Iceland: Fischer not 'exhumed' broke the news: tissue samples had been taken from chess champion Bobby Fischer's grave, on the order of the Icelandic Supreme Court to settle a paternity dispute. ChessBase News
• Apprentices' indentures issued by the Edinburgh College of Surgeons in the 1720s forbad trainees to exhume the dead - which suggests that they had been doing so.
• In centuries past, graves would be exhumed, and any bones remaining would be collected and buried deeper down, thereby allowing fresh graves on top.
• However, his body was exhumed in 2001 and examined by a state pathologist, who found the main impact to Barron's skull was from a moving object, ‘most likely a motor vehicle’.
• And if Carter's gone back to the dismal years 1977-80 to exhume diary material, what comes next? Jimmy Carter: Can't Stop the Typing