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  2. Richard Henry Pratt - Wikipedia

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    Signature. Brigadier General Richard Henry Pratt (December 6, 1840 – March 15, 1924) [1] was an American military officer who founded and was longtime superintendent of the influential Carlisle Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Pratt is associated with the first recorded use of the word " racism ," which he used in 1902 to ...

  3. Death care industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The death care industry in the United States includes companies and organizations that provide services related to death: funerals, cremation or burial, and memorials. This includes for example funeral homes, coffins, crematoria, cemeteries, and headstones. [1] [2] The death care industry within the U.S. consists mainly of small businesses, [3 ...

  4. State funerals in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Former president William Howard Taft, who at the time of his death was the sitting Chief Justice of the United States, was given a state funeral in Washington, D.C., on March 11, 1930, three days after his death. He lay in state in the Capitol rotunda and a funeral service was held at All Souls' Unitarian Church.

  5. Pratts of Streatham - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates. 51°25′53.07″N 0°7′46.27″W  /  51.4314083°N 0.1295194°W  / 51.4314083; -0.1295194. Opening date. 1850s. Closing date. 1990; 34 years ago. ( 1990) Pratts was a department store located in Streatham High Road, London. Established in the 1850s it became part of the John Lewis chain before its closure in 1990.

  6. Mauricio Umansky Reunites With ‘DWTS’ Partner Emma Slater

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    Mauricio Umansky and Emma Slater. Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Park Elm at Century Plaza Emma Slater received support from her former partner Mauricio Umansky during the Dancing With the Stars ...

  7. World's oldest conjoined twins, Lori and George Schappell ...

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    The twins passed away on April 7 of undisclosed causes, according to joint obituaries published by Leibensperger Funeral Homes in Hamburg, Pennsylvania. The Schappell twins were born in ...

  8. Pratt's - Wikipedia

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    Headquarters. 14 Park Place, London. , United Kingdom. Pratt's is a gentlemen's club in London, England. It was established in 1857, with premises in a house in Park Place, off St James's Street, and close to the Ritz .

  9. Richard Tandy, the keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist whose tenure with the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) spanned more than 50 years, has died, according to a statement from Jeff Lynne, the ...