COFFIN

closed receptacle for a corpse. Its purpose is usually to protect and to aid preservation of the body, although in the past some have believed that it may confine the spirit of the deceased. Bark, skins, and mats were commonly used in primitive societies to wrap the body prior to burial. Peoples living near rivers or oceans often buried their dead in canoes, and hollowed oak coffins have been found in the Bronze Age barrow. The Chaldaeans and the early Greeks enclosed a corpse in clay, sealing the coffin by firing it. The largest known stone coffins (see sarcophagus) are Egyptian. Wood and papier-mâché were also used in Egypt for mummy chests. Coffins lined with metal, usually lead, came into use in the Middle Ages. Most coffins used in the Western world today are made of elm or oak and are lined with bronze, copper, lead, or zinc.

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books on: Coffin  - 14412 results

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Collected Poems of Robert P. Tristram Coffin
Book by Robert P. Tristram Coffin; The Macmillan Company, 1939
Subjects: Poetry
...These are poems a poet does not have to write. They are poems that come to him, and he has only to set them down. One or two of them can make any man cling to the precious chance of being alive. ROBERT P. TRISTRAM COFFIN January 1, 1939
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Keziah Coffin
Book by Joseph C. Lincoln; A.L. Burt, 1909
Subjects: Fiction
...Listen! listen to me! Ansel Coffin is dead, I tell you. I know it. I know...Its the truth. That sailor was Ansel Coffin. I watched with him and one night, the...called in Ebenezer Capen, who used to know Coffin in New Bedford. And he recognized him...
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A Very Dangerous Woman: Martha Wright and Women's Rights
Book by Sherry H. Penney, James D. Livingston; University of Massachusetts Press, 2004
Subjects: Feminists--United States--Biography, Suffragists--United States--Biography, Women Social Reformers--United States--Biography, Women's Rights--United States--History, Wright, Martha Coffin--1806-1875
...Henry, 26 Cleveland conventions, 103 , 183 84 Clinton, De Witt, 31 Coffin, Anna Folger, 7 , 29 , 42 43, 44 , 226 , 233 Coffin, Eliza. See Yarnall, Eliza Coffin Coffin, Lucretia. See Mott, Lucretia Coffin Coffin, Martha. See Wright...
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Jessie Benton Fremont: A Woman Who Made History
Book by Catherine Coffin Phillips; University of Nebraska Press, 1995
Subjects: Fremont, Jessie Benton--1824-1902, Fremont, John Charles--1813-1890, Pioneers--United States--Biography, Politicians' spouses--United States--Biography, Women pioneers--United States--Biography
...period my parents, Tristram and Susan Coffin, were Mrs. Fremonts next-door neighbors...father and Mrs. Fremont has become a Coffin family classic. In referring to the various...father said that his father, Tristram Coffin, had been "read out" of the Quaker...
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Rethinking International Organization: Deregulation and Global Governance
Book by Barbara Emadi-Coffin; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Free Ports And Zones, International Business Enterprises, International Economic Relations, International Organization, International Relations
...fields. In this book, Barbara Emadi-Coffin seeks to explain this contradiction through...political and economic power. Emadi-Coffin analyzes the complex interactions between...the Peoples Republic of China, Emadi-Coffin demonstrates these interactions. In so...
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A Coffin for the Union
Journal article by Robert J; Afro - Americans in New York Life and History, Vol. 23, 1999
Subjects: Albany, NY, Coffin, Edwin S., Congress, Fillmore, Millard, Government, New York, NY, Otsego, NY, Politics, Seward, William H., Slavery, Taylor, Zachary, Weed, Thurlow
...the book make fun of Coffins name, but many of...Honorable Edwin S. Coffin claimed to be an...introduction of the "Coffin Bill" was a turning...Assemblymen had about the "Coffin Bill" as recorded in Coffins autograph book...
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Eric Ambler's Revisionist Thrillers: Epitaph for a Spy, A Coffin for Dimitrios, and the Intercom Conspiracy
Journal article by Robert Lance Snyder; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 45, 2009
Subjects: A Coffin for Dimitrios (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Ambler, Eric--Criticism and interpretation, Ambler, Eric--Works, Epitaph for a Spy (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Suspense fiction--Criticism and interpretation, The Intercom Conspiracy (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...Revisionist Thrillers: Epitaph for a Spy, A Coffin for Dimitrios, and the Intercom Conspiracy...fully than Epitaph for a Spy (1938) or A Coffin for Dimitrios (1939), in all three...Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. A COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS: HISTORYS NEW LOGIC Noting...
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Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott
Journal article by Nancy Isenberg; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 69, 2003
Subjects: Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott (Book)
Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott. by Nancy Isenberg Edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer, with the assistance of Holly Byers Ochoa and Carol Faulkner. Women...
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Coffins on Our Shoulders: The Experience of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Journal article by Dawn Chatty; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 12, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Coffins on Our Shoulders: The Experience of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel (Book)--Book reviews
Coffins on Our Shoulders: The Experience of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel. by Dawn Chatty RABINOWITZ, DAN KHAWLA, ABU-BAKER. Coffins on our shoulders: the experience of the Palestinian citizens of Israel...
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The Spinet and the Coffin: Katherine Anne Porter and the Art of Music: Four Movements with Prelude and Coda
Journal article by Thomas Austenfeld; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 62, 2009
Subjects: American writers--Criticism and interpretation, American writers--Works, Authors, American--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, American--Works, Music--Influence, Porter, Katherine Anne--Criticism and interpretation, Porter, Katherine Anne--Works
The Spinet and the Coffin: Katherine Anne Porter and the Art of...boxlike items. The first is a plain wooden coffin. Porter acquired it in 1973 from a mail...and evoking the visual similarity to a coffin. In his 1951 story, "The Resemblance...
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William Sloane Coffin, Jr.: A Holy Impatience
Magazine article; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, William Sloane Coffin, Jr.: a Holy Impatience (Book)--Book reviews
...Impatience. WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR.: A HOLY IMPATIENCE...almost totally admiring of Coffins ever more leftward politics...that shaped the young Coffin, from elite prep schools...Entirely without mention is Coffins involvement--albeit...and church life. While Coffin is obviously a hero...
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The Death of William Sloane Coffin Jr
Magazine article by Richard John Neuhaus; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 2006
Subjects: Coffin, William Sloane, Presbyterian clergy--Biography
...before his death. Bill Coffin has to have a major part...intentionality, he was both. Coffins went back to the Mayflower...uncle, Henry Sloane Coffin, was president of Union...security of privilege. Coffin thrived on the constancy...I saw mentioned Bill Coffins part in the 1975 Hartford...
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Coffin Elected on Eighth Ballot: Advocates Grassroots Ecumenism, Generous Dialogue [Coadjutor Bishop
Magazine article by Art Babych; Vol. 125, May 1999
Subjects: Anglican Church, Churches, Coffin, Peter, Ottawa Ontario Canada
Coffin Elected on Eighth Ballot: Advocates Grassroots...350 synod delegates to electVen. Peter Coffin, the rector of Christ Church Cathedral...where the election was held March 27, Dean Coffin, sitting in a pew near the back of the...
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Coffin Defends Granting of Temporary License to Gay Priest
Magazine article by Marites N. Sison; Anglican Journal, Vol. 132, March 2006
Subjects: Anglican Church, Coffin, Peter, Episcopal Church, Episcopal Church U.S.A., Homosexual clergy, Licensing, Ottawa Ontario Canada, Privitera, Linda F, United States
Coffin Defends Granting of Temporary License to...change in diocesan policy. Bishop Peter Coffin said he has granted Rev. Linda Fisher Privitera...related to human sexuality," said Bishop Coffin in an e-mail interview with the Journal...
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Peter Coffin and Djordje Ozbolt: Herald St
Magazine article by Gilda Williams; Artforum International, Vol. 47, October 2008
Subjects: Coffin, Peter--Exhibitions, Installations (Art)--Exhibitions, Ozbolt, Djordje--Exhibitions, Painting (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting--Exhibitions
...OMITTED In fact, the whole Coffin/Ozbolt viewing experience...Ozbolts enigmatic paintings; Coffins light show is merely an embellishment...1982 camp film Polyester, Coffin delights in drawing our nonvisual...in each mysterious image. Coffins overlaid son et lumiere exemplifies...
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Colourful Coffins in Attempt to Brighten Death's Dullness
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, October 29, 2006
...beautifully painted coffin best reflects the...deceased. Even so, coffins in living colour...lighter-framed coffins. Few people want...especially fancy coffin, said Koebe. People...artificial materials in coffins across Germany...envision a unique coffin that expresses their...
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SECRETS OF SINATRA'S COFFIN; When Ol' Blue Eyes Was Buried, His Wives and Children Placed Five Intriguing Objects Inside His Coffin. Their Meaning Has Been Shrouded in Mystery. until Now
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 28, 2004
Subjects: Reagan, Nancy, Sinatra, Frank
SECRETS OF SINATRAS COFFIN; When Ol Blue Eyes Was Buried, His...Placed Five Intriguing Objects Inside His Coffin. Their Meaning Has Been Shrouded in...and Liza Minnelli crowded around his coffin in Beverly Hills to say farewell. As...
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THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX; A Must-Have for Celebrities, Wicker Coffins Are Big Business. and There's More to Them Than Just Their Green Credentials
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 5, 2009
Subjects: Celebrities
...telephone number is 1890-COFFIN or maybe his good...undeniable reality that coffins are a resolutely recession...Ireland do make willow coffins to order (a coffin takes between 24 and...aversion to traditional coffins. THE wicker coffin business bumped along...
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REQUIEM FOR A PRINCESS: A Wreath from the Boys Was Lying on Coffin with the Sad Word 'Mummy' as the Hearse Made Its Way through the Streets of London the Driver Had to Use His Windscreen Wipers to Clear Away All the Flowers That Were Thrown
Newspaper article; The People (London, England), September 7, 1997
Subjects: Hague, William
...A Wreath from the Boys Was Lying on Coffin with the Sad Word Mummy as the Hearse...William and Harry following their mothers coffin will be seared into the worlds heart for...final resting place to shower her passing coffin with flowers. It was the ultimate tribute...
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Coffin Held the Secret of Who Would Die Next; in the Last of Our Terrifying Tales, Tom Slemen Tells the Story of the Coffin
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), October 28, 2010
Coffin Held the Secret of Who Would Die Next...Tales, Tom Slemen Tells the Story of the Coffin. ON THE Saturday night of October 31...sentence is a rope ends it." "Theres this coffin in an old empty house," said Montserrat...
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Coffin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COFFIN closed receptacle for a corpse...dead in canoes, and hollowed oak coffins have been found in the Bronze...a corpse in clay, sealing the coffin by firing it. The largest known stone coffins (see sarcophagus ) are Egyptian...
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Coffin, William Sloane, Jr
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COFFIN, WILLIAM SLOANE, JR. 1924 2006, American Protestant social activist...City. Strongly influenced by the social philosophy of Reinhold Niebuhr , Coffin became a leader in the civil-rights and peace movements of the 1960s and...
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Coffin, Levi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COFFIN, LEVI 1798 1877, American abolitionist, b. North Carolina. In 1826 he moved to the Quaker settlement of Newport (now Fountain...
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Coffin, Henry Sloane
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COFFIN, HENRY SLOANE 1877 1954, American Presbyterian clergyman, b. New York City. He was pastor of the Madison Ave. Presbyterian...
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Jewett, Charles Coffin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
JEWETT, CHARLES COFFIN joo it, 1816 68, American librarian, b. Lebanon, Maine. Jewett prepared his first catalog of books as librarian of Andover...
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