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2) While seeking to limit U.N. access to Saddam Hussein's 63 palaces, Iraq paraded nearly 100 coffins containing what it said were corpses of children killed by cruel U.N. sanctions.
After flying to Nairobi and bringing home the coffins of the American dead, Secretary Albright increased the department's focus on counterterrorism.
Consider Gira Fornaciari, who unearthed 49 members of the Medici family to confirm various causes of death, or the committee that had Beethoven and Schubert dug up to transfer them to more secure zinc coffins (borrowing both heads for a bit more measuring, and swiping Schubert's luxuriant, larvae-laden hair while they were at it).
Americans of the last century surrounded themselves with photographs of dead family members posed in their coffins, a practice so widespread as to be an important source of income for photographers.
All these artifacts survived because they were buried in coffins within coffins in subterranean royal tombs.