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4 unusual facts about Urn


Mrzlava Vas

Between 1920 and 1960 and in 1986 a number urn burials dating to the 1st and 2nd centuries were found and excavated in the area.

Ode on Indolence

He may have written the ode as early as March, but the themes and stanza forms suggest May or June 1819; when it is known he was working on "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode on Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode to Psyche".

Scrophularia atrata

The flower has an urn-shaped corolla with a rounded body and an open mouth at the top which is edged with hoodlike lobes.

Urn

He expanded his study to survey burial and funerary customs, ancient and current, and published it as Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial (1658).


Alexandre-Antoine Hureau de Sénarmont

In 1811 an urn with his heart was interred in the Panthéon, Paris.

Bersiap

Earth from these 22 war cemeteries was collected in an urn and was integrated into the Dutch National Monument (Amsterdam) on the Dam Square.

Bottisham

Their son, Soame Jenyns, was for 38 years a Member of Parliament, a keen debater, and is remembered here by angels garlanding an urn.

Carl Loewe

In 2012 an urn thought to contain the heart of Carl Loewe was found inside the Szczecin Cathedral's southern pillar during the renovation works carried out that year.

Connah's Quay High School

When Prince Andrew, Duke of York visited the school to declare the new block officially open, the opening ceremony was interrupted by a fire alarm caused by a hot tea urn.

Don Escudero

Escudero designed his own cremation urn kept at the chapel of the family-owned Villa Escudero in Tiaong, Quezon.

Ehrengrab

It is a common tomb for people who have donated their bodies to the Anatomical Institute of the University of Zurich for the needs of science and wished that their urn would be stored there.

Fletcher Steele

His early garden plans are generally in the English Arts and crafts style of Gertrude Jekyll, Reginald Blomfield, and T. H. Mawson, but ornamented with Italianate detailing such as balustrades, hedges, urns, statuary, stone pineapples, and flights of water steps.

Freemason's Grave

Another similar case is the urn of poetess Katri Vala which is set at a spot adjunct to her eponymous park in the Sörnäinen neighbourhood.

H. elegans

Heuchera elegans, the urn-flowered alumroot, a flowering plant species endemic to California

Japodian burial urns

The Japodian burial urn art was a unique form of art influenced to a degree by the Situla art of northern Illyria and Italy and by Greek art.

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot

The only surviving work by him dating from before the French Revolution (1789–95) is a coffee urn (Monticello, Virginia, Jefferson Foundation) designed and commissioned by Thomas Jefferson.

Johann August Georg Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvar

Mojsvar paid special attention to the Cephalopoda of the Austrian Triassic, and his publications include Das Gebirge urn Hallstatt (1873 1876); Die Dolomitrisse von Südtirol und Venetien (1878–1880); Grundlinien der Geologie von Bosnien-Herzegowina (1880) with E. Tietze and A. Bittner; Die Cephalopoden der mediterranen Triasprovinz (1882); Die cephalopoden der Hallsttter Kalke (187 31903) and Beiträge zur Kenntniss der obertriadischen Cephalopodenfaunen des Himalaya (1896).

Jorgen Thalbitzer

Thalbitzer was first buried on 7 July 1943 at Tibirke churchyard, however after his body was identified, by means of his ring with the family coat-of-arms, his urn was interred on 31 July 1943 at Vestre Cemetery.

Laura Place, Bath

It consists of a circular stone basin with four radial projections surmounted by an urn with gadrooned bowl.

León Cathedral

In the Main Chapel, there is an altarpiece by Nicolás Francés (15th century) and a silver urn containing the relics of San Froilán, the town's Saint patron, made by Enrique de Arfe.

Milanówek

During World War II urn with the heart of Frédéric Chopin, transferred from Holy Cross Church in Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw, was stored in St. Hedwig Church in Milanówek.

Nurhaci

In the beginning of the 1984 movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones trades the remains of Nurhaci (contained in a small, ornate jade urn) for a diamond owned by the Chinese mobster Lao Che.

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Bateson, F. W. "Ode on a Grecian Urn" in Twentieth Century Interpretations of Keats's Odes Editor Jack Stillinger.

Ode on Indolence

Charles Wentworth Dilke observed that while the poem can be read as a supplemental text to assist the study of "Grecian Urn", it remains a much inferior work.

Peter Archambo I

The Gilbert Collection now at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London has a neo-classical hot-water urn and a set of three exquisite caddies with finely engraved decoration.

Shrine of Remembrance, Brisbane

Designed in the Greek Classic Revival style, the columns of the Shrine of Remembrance are built of Helidon sandstone,and the Eternal Flame is kept in a brass urn within the Shrine.

St Cynhaearn's Church, Ynyscynhaearn

A memorial to James Spooner, the surveyor who built the Festiniog Railway, and members of his family comprises a stone urn surrounded by iron railings.

The Ashes urn

After Bligh’s death Florence presented the urn to the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1929.

Urnula craterium

The genus name means "little urn"; the specific epithet is derived from the Latin cratera, referring to a type of bowl used in antiquity to mix wine with water.

Wasp-class amphibious assault ship

The sensor suite fitted to each ship is made up of an AN/SPS-48 or AN/SPS-52 air-search radar backed up by an AN/SPS-49 air-search radar, an SPS-67 surface search radar, an AN/URN-25 TACAN system, along with several other radars for navigation and fire control.


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