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Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisiana (near New Orleans). [5] [6] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries.
3. Paul Lafargue ( French: [lafaʁg]; 15 January 1842 – 25 November 1911) was a Cuban-born French [1] revolutionary Marxist socialist, political writer, economist, journalist, literary critic, and activist; he was Karl Marx 's son-in-law, having married his second daughter, Laura. His best known work is The Right to Be Lazy.
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 ...
Marie Lafarge. Marie-Fortunée Lafarge (née Capelle; 15 January 1816 – 7 November 1852) was a French woman who was convicted of murdering her husband by arsenic poisoning in 1840. Her case became notable because it was one of the early trials to be followed by the public through daily newspaper reports, and because she was the first person ...
Daisy Lafarge (born 1992) is a Glasgow-based poet and novelist. Career. Born in Hastings, East Sussex, Lafarge studied Fine Art and History of Art at Edinburgh College of Art. She later completed a PhD in Creative Writing, Geography and Molecular Epidemiology at the University of Glasgow in 2021.
Lafarge is a French industrial company specialising in cement, construction aggregates, and concrete. It is the world's largest cement manufacturer. It was founded in 1833 by Joseph-Auguste Pavin de Lafarge and is a part of the Holcim Group . In 2015, Lafarge merged with Holcim and a new company was formed under the name of LafargeHolcim.
The Milltown Cemetery attack (also known as the Milltown Cemetery killings or Milltown massacre [1]) took place on 16 March 1988 at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland. During the large funeral of three Provisional IRA members killed in Gibraltar, an Ulster Defence Association (UDA) member, Michael Stone, attacked the mourners with ...
The Ballad of Ira Hayes. " The Ballad of Ira Hayes " is a song written by folk singer Peter La Farge. Its words tell the story of Ira Hayes, one of the six marines who became famous for having raised the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the ...