Everest hero Hillary laid to rest
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New Zealand bids a last goodbye to Mount Everest hero Sir Edmund Hillary at his state funeral in Auckland.
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Lady Bird Johnson arrived at her final resting place beneath a canopy of oak trees Sunday, beside the late President Lyndon Baines Johnson at the family's ranch in the Texas Hill Country.
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Saffron-robed Buddhist monks, Nepali Sherpas and grey-bearded mountaineers paid homage on Tuesday to Sir Edmund Hillary, the man who conquered Everest, as thousands gathered in New Zealand to watch his state funeral.
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Famed explorer Sir Edmund Hillary led a life of 'determination, humility and generosity'
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An Australian mountaineer who had been believed dead near the summit of Mount Everest has been revived and has come part way down the mountain, reports said Saturday.
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The body of legendary tenor Luciano Pavarotti was lying in state Friday in the cathedral in his hometown Modena, as the world paid tribute to the singer whose crossover appeal made him a global superstar.
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The mother of Russia's  last tsar, forced into exile by the Bolshevik revolution, was  to be laid to rest next to her family on Thursday, as Russia  tries to make peace with its dark past.
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Sir Edmund Hillary, was the mountaineer who, with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, was the first to scale the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - The mother of Russia's   last tsar, forced into exile by the Bolshevik revolution, was   to be laid to rest next to her family on Thursday, as Russia   tries to make peace with its dark past.
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Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday. He was 88.
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CHICAGO, Feb. 18 -- Families of those killed last week at Northern Illinois University began laying their loved ones to rest Monday.
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Vilma Espin, the former guerrilla fighter who was communist Cuba's most politically powerful woman, was laid to rest with full military honors Friday.
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"To be washed gently ashore, maybe on the many pleasant beaches near the place I was born. Then the full circle of my life will be complete"  Sir Edmund Hillary, the unassuming beekeeper who conquered Mount Everest to win renown as one of the 20th century's greatest adventurers, has died, New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Friday. He was 88.The gangling New Zealander devoted much of his life to aiding the mountain people of Nepal and took his fame in stride, preferring to be called 'Ed' and considering himself an ordinary man.'Sir Ed described himself as an average New Zealander with modest abilities. In reality, he was a colossus. He was an heroic figure who not only 'knocked off' Everest but lived a life of determination, humility, and generosity,' Clark said in a statement. Read more
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New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who along with Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first to conquer Mount Everest, has died, Prime Minister Helen Clark said on Friday.
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The son-in-law of Egypt's late president was laid to rest Sunday amid lingering mystery over his strange death and alleged role as a double agent who tricked Israel into complacency over the 1973 Yom Kippur war.
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As Alexander Litvinenko was laid to rest in London, investigators in Britain and Russia continued to seek answers in his radioactive poisoning death
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Benazir Bhutto was  laid to rest next to her father in the family mausoleum on  Friday after the opposition leader's assassination plunged  Pakistan into crisis and triggered violent protests.