Local people began using the cemetery as a garbage dump, throwing old wire, pieces of metal, tin cans, carcasses, and household ashes onto the grounds.
en.wikipedia.org However, ashes and fossils (assessed to be of 15 million years age) unearthed here reveal that leaves, willows, alders, maples, rhododendrons and conifers existed here.
en.wikipedia.org The easily alterable, or highly reactive, nature of these ashes and pumices limits their occurrence largely to recently active volcanic areas.
en.wikipedia.org The sisters move into a brownstone and try to rebuild their lives out of the ashes of a painful death.
en.wikipedia.org He would then attach these to urns which he would fill up with ashes.
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