2 May 2015

columbarium

[kol-uh m-bair-ee-uh m]

noun, plural columbaria [kol-uh m-bair-ee-uh]
1. a sepulchral vault or other structure with recesses in the walls to receive the ashes of the dead.
2. any one of these recesses.
3. columbary.

Origin of columbarium
1840-1850; < Latin: literally, a nesting box for pigeons, equivalent to columb (a) pigeon, dove + -ārium -ary

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Examples from the web for columbarium
– Addresses for urns within a columbarium -it was almost too precious.
– The columbarium is a wall with honeycomb niches for urns filled with cremated remains.
– The columbarium is proposed to be within a courtyard area within the educational building addition.

Anagram

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Today’s aphorism

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.

― Abigail Van Buren

On this day

2 May 1519 – death of Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian renaissance inventor, painter, sculptor, mathematician, writer. Born 15 April 1452.

2 May 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, second wife of King Henry VIII and mother of the future Queen Elizabeth I, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.

2 May 1568 – Mary Queen of Scots escapes from Loch Leven Castle.

2 May 1611 – the King James Bible is published for the first time in London by Robert Barker.

2 May 1986 – The Ukrainian city of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the nuclear reactor disaster.

2 May 2011 – Osama bin Laden, founder and leader of Al Qaeda, FBI’s most wanted man, is killed by US Special Forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Born 10 March 1957 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.