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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Sherpas laid prayer scarves on Sir Edmund Hillary's coffin as thousands across New Zealand bid farewell to the Mount Everest conqueror Tuesday. An honor guard held ice axes aloft as his casket was carried through their lines.
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New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who along with Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first to conquer Mount Everest, has died. He was 88.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Thousands of mourners filed past the coffin of former dictator Augusto Pinochet on Monday, praying, crying and paying their respects to a man who divides Chilean public opinion in death as he did in life.
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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.
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STONEWALL, Texas  - Friends and family bade a final goodbye to Lady Bird Johnson on Sunday as she was buried next to her husband, former President Lyndon Johnson, at a cemetery on the family's Texas ranch.
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RIP conqueror of Everest Sir Edmund Hillary, the NZ climber who in 1953 conquered Mount Everest and subsequently did much to improve the lot of Nepal's Sherpa people has died aged 88.â¦
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By Will Buss, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 8--George Becker is returning home.   After decades of leadership in Pittsburgh and Washington D.C., the late steel union leader will be laid to rest Friday in his hometown, Granite City.
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Mount Everest pioneer Sir Edmund Hillary said Wednesday he was shocked that dozens of climbers left a British mountaineer to die during their own attempts on the world&#039;s tallest peak.
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Anger in New Zealand over absence of royal family at funeral of Everest conqeuror Sir Edmund Hillary
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Nepal has named an airport in the remote Everest region after pioneering climbers Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, who first climbed Mount Everest in 1953.
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When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa guide, stood on the summit of Mount Everest, it seems as if they were making the last âgiant leap for mankindâ of pre-space-age generations.
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Edmund Hillary, who climbed to international fame as the first person to conquer Everest, the world's highest mountain, died Friday aged 88.
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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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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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Actor and presidential contender Fernando Poe Jr. was laid to rest Wednesday morning with an officially estimated 1.5 million to 2 million fans going with the cortege and lining the 5
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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.