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	Levi Coffin House - the "Grand Central Station" of the Underground Railroad
		Levi and Catharine Coffin were legendary in helping many former slaves escape to freedom in the North.
		The Coffin house was purchased in 1967 by the State of Indiana.
		View recently discovered manumission papers that were witnessed by Levi Coffin - these are legal documents showing the purchase of slaves by Quakers who would then care for them until they could be transported into a free state.
	www.waynet.org /nonprofit/coffin.htm (833 words)

	The Coffins of Ancient Egypt
		The iconography of these coffins was constant, consisting of a winged figure on the lid, the Four Sons of Horus, and Thoth and Anubis on the walls of the case.
		The outer coffin of the typical 25th Dynasty was decorated with solar scenes on its vaulted roof and the Four Sons of Horus on the side walls.
		By the end of the Pharaonic period, coffins and mummy containers varied considerably and were sometimes very specific to different locales, reflecting both the changing nature of Egyptian leadership, such as the Greeks, the inclusion and assimilation of foreign gods, as well as the diversity that was often found during the earlier intermediate periods.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/coffins.htm (2854 words)

	Coffin - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Egyptian coffins, or sarcophagi, as they have been improperly called, are the largest stone coffins known and are generally highly polished and covered with hieroglyphics, usually a history of the deceased.
		This type of coffin, more or less modified by planing, was used in medieval Britain by those of the better classes who could not afford stone, but the poor were buried without coffins, wrapped simply in cloth or even covered only with hay and flowers.
		The coffins used in England to-day are generally of elm or oak lined with lead, or with a leaden shell so as to delay as far as possible the process of disintegration and decomposition.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Coffin (954 words)

	Inclining coffin - Patent 6725510
		The coffin as recited in claim 1, wherein the mechanism for selectively concealing the angular gap are bellows mounted between the first longitudinal portion and second longitudinal portion at the seam therebetween.
		The coffin as recited in claim 3, further comprising a pair of lower brackets, extending against the lower edge between the first and second longitudinal portions when the coffin is in the planar position, for selectively preventing the first longitudinal portion from inclining during transport of the coffin.
		The coffin 10 has a pair of longitudinally extending side walls 24, which are each divided transversely by the seam 14, and a pair of end walls 26 extending substantially perpendicularly between the side walls 24.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /6725510.html (1996 words)

	injusticebusters 2003 > > Wilbert Coffin: Innocent hanged?
		Coffin, 42, a mining prospector from the Gaspé, was hanged on Feb. 10, 1956, for the murders of three Pennsylvanians apparently shot and robbed during a bear hunting expedition to the area in 1953.
		Coffin was sentenced to death on Aug. 5, 1954, but had seven stays of execution over the next 18 months while courts rejected his appeals.
		Coffin is accused of the murder of one of the hunters, Richard Lindsay, because the penal code prohibits an accused from being tried for more than one murder in the same trial.
	www.injusticebusters.com /2003/Coffin_Wilbert.htm (2455 words)

	Levi Coffin Summary
		Coffin aspired at the time to be a teacher and taught a number of seasons in the area.
		Coffin was outstanding in his search for alternatives to slave labor and was a major advocate of "free produce," that is, goods produced by free labor.
		Levi Coffin was also a prominent member of the Underground Railroad that secretly helped tens of thousands of slaves to escape from the South to the North in the years of slavery, using a number of safe houses, called Stations.
	www.bookrags.com /Levi_Coffin (927 words)

	Coffin Bay - South Australia - Australia - Travel - smh.com.au
		Coffin Bay and the beautiful Coffin Bay National Park (which covers 29,000 ha of the peninsula) are located 703 km west of Adelaide and 47 km west of Port Lincoln.
		Coffin Bay is a typical Australian holiday resort (of the unspoilt variety) full of holiday units and relatively cheap accommodation and designed for people who want to spend a holiday fishing, sailing, skindiving, bushwalking or enjoying themselves on the beach.
		Coffin, who was to become a Vice Admiral of the British Navy, assisted Flinders when he was preparing to sail for Australia.
	www.smh.com.au /news/South-Australia/Coffin-Bay/2005/02/17/1108500204205.html (1415 words)

	Obed J. Coffin
		Obed J. Coffin, a well-known and progressive farmer of Blue River township, this county, former trustee of that township and for nineteen years one of the best-known and most popular school teachers in that part of the county, is a native son of Hancock county, and has lived here all his life.
		Ammiel Coffin was born on June 12, 1843, near the village of Manilla, in Rush county, this state, and was about thirteen years of age when his parents moved to this county and settled in the Quaker settlement in Blue River township, both being earnest members of the Friends church.
		Coffin is a Republican and in 1908 was elected trustee of Blue River township, serving in that capacity for six years, during which time one of his notable official works was the consummation of the system of consolidated school in his jurisdiction.
	www.rootsquest.com /~indiana/hancock/1916/coffinoj.html (784 words)

	Rev. William Sloane Coffin Dies at 81; Fought for Civil Rights and Against a War - New York Times
		Coffin, a believer in the power of civil disobedience to bring social and political change, was arrested as a Freedom Rider early in the 1960's and was an early admirer of the Rev. Dr.
		And for almost all of Dr. Coffin's adult life, his service was performed in one or another institution near the heart of power and prestige: the Central Intelligence Agency, Andover, Williams College, Yale, and then Riverside Church, which had been built as an interdenominational house of worship with financing from John D. Rockefeller Jr.
		Moreover, Dr. Coffin made the case that by addressing the anger, fears and frustrated idealism of the students, the Yale administration may have helped the university avoid the kind of fractures that left far deeper scars at Columbia and other universities.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/04/13/us/13coffin.html?ex=1302580800&en=e8befce9aac45583&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (1083 words)

	coffinfam
		The family traces its ancestry to Sir Richard Coffin, Knight, who accompanied William the Conqueror from Normandy to England in the year 1066 and to whom the manor of Alwington in the court of Devonshire was assigned.
		Our Coffin line in America was founded by Tristram Coffin (Coffyn as he always signed his name), who was born in Brixton, a small parish and village, near Plymouth, in the southwestern part of Devonshire County England, in the year 1605.
		Alice Virginia Coffin was one of the seven founders of the PEO Sisterhood, a Philanthropic Education Organization, of which Christie and Sheryl are members as well as Scott's wife, Madelyn.
	www.cartar.com /papers/coffinfam/coffinfam.htm (2234 words)

	Indiana Historical Society
		Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966 by the United States Department of the Interior, the Coffin house was purchased by the state in 1967 and leased to the Wayne County Historical Society.
		Levi Coffin was born on 28 October 1798 on a farm in New Garden, North Carolina, the only son of seven children born to Levi and Prudence (Williams) Coffin.
		Coffin, who married Catharine White, a woman he had known since childhood, on 28 October 1824, decided two years later to join his other family members who had moved to the young state of Indiana.
	www.indianahistory.org /pop_hist/people/coffin.html (1067 words)

	William Sloane Coffin, rights activist, dies at 81 - Americas - International Herald Tribune
		Coffin, a believer in the power of civil disobedience to bring social and political change, was arrested as a Freedom Rider early in the 1960's and was an early admirer of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
		Coffin said he had not pushed the thought of draft evasion on anyone who did not already have it, but the government argued that this defied common sense, given the persuasive power that someone of his standing would have when he took a position or set an example.
		Coffin was appointed to the ministry at Riverside Church in 1978.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/04/13/america/web.0413obit.coffin.php (2548 words)

	Frank M. Coffin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coffin served as chairman of the Maine Democratic State committee from 1954-1956 and was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1961).
		Coffin was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on October 2, 1965 and served as chief judge of that court from 1972-1983.
		Coffin was the chairman of the U.S. Judicial Conference Committee on the Judicial Branch from 1984-1990.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_M._Coffin (351 words)

	Coffin Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		This is a reprint of Charles Coffin's history of the march of mankind from "slavery to freedom", first published in 1879, and climaxing with an account of the role of Providence in the founding of America as the nursery of freedom.
		Coffin was chaplain at Yale and the former pastor of Riverside Church in New York.
		In her finely crafted translations Coffin has been uniquely successful in reproducing the directness and striking effects characteristic of Akhmatova's poetry, and she is the first to remain true to Akhmatova's rhyme and cadence.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Coffin (821 words)

	The Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
		Coffin served in the army until 1947, rising to the rank of captain while working as a liaison with the French and Soviet armies.
		Coffin left Yale in December 1975, citing the need to remove himself from the academy in order to work on a global level for social justice, disarmament, and an end to hunger.
		Coffin re-married in 1969, to Harriet Gibney; they divorced shortly after he left Yale.Coffin's third wife is Virginia Randolph Witson After becoming president emeritus of SANE/FREEZE in the mid-1990s, Coffin moved to Vermont and continued to teach and lecture.
	ecojustice.net /coffin/Archive-Intro.htm (1112 words)

	Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr: 1924-2006
		In 1978, Coffin was called to the very visible pulpit of Riverside Church and as its Minister led the church into the center of the antinuclear movement.
		Because of his facility with languages, Coffin was made a liaison to the Russian army and, in 1946, he took part in operations to forcibly repatriate Soviet citizens who had been taken prisoner.
		Coffin's influence on my generation was great, and we persevere in working on the same issues year after year because of his example.
	www.thenation.com /blogs/notion?bid=15&pid=77125 (997 words)

	Coffin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A coffin may be buried in the ground directly, placed in a burial vault or cremated.
		Sometimes coffins are constructed to display the dead body as in the case of the glass covered coffin of Haraldskær Woman on display in the Church of Saint Nicolai in Vejle, Denmark or Disney's Snow White's casket.
		An airtight coffin, for example, fosters decomposition by anaerobic bacteria, which results in a putrefied liquification of the body, and all putrefied tissue remains inside the container, only to be exposed in the event of an exhumation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coffin (1461 words)

	Egypt: Coffin Texts
		The Coffin Texts, which basically superseded the Pyramid Text as magical funerary spells at the end of the Old Kingdom, are principally a Middle Kingdom phenomenon, though we may begin to find examples as early as the late Old Kingdom.
		While the coffin text were available as a tool for the afterlife to all Egyptians, the spells were primarily employed by the local governors and their families of Middle Egypt.
		Many of the coffin text spells play on the concepts of creation, so we find the deceased portrayed as a primeval god and creator and once series of spells references the creator god and his children, Shu and Tefnut, who were given the responsibility of creation.
	touregypt.net /featurestories/coffintext.htm (2817 words)

	Nantucket Hotels & Lodging \| Jared Coffin House \| Historic Inns in Nantucket
		Originally built as a family residence by Jared Coffin, one of the most successful ship owners of his time, the three-story mansion was the first of its kind on the island.
		The Jared Coffin House offers a uniqueness that can only be found at a place that brings together perfectly the best of Nantucket, past and present.
		Jared Coffin House is owned and operated by Nantucket Island Resorts, a collection of premier properties on Nantucket including: The Wauwinet, White Elephant, Harbor House Village, The Cottages, and Nantucket Boat Basin.
	www.jaredcoffinhouse.com (165 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Society & Community. William Sloane Coffin \| PBS
		Renowned for his role in the civil rights movement and as a vocal opponent against nuclear weapons proliferation, it is a belief in faith as a force for resisting evil that continues to drive his commitment to global peace and social justice.
		William Sloane Coffin served as chaplain of Yale University from 1958-1976.
		Coffin initially became famous at Yale University in the 60's for his opposition to the Vietnam War.
	www.pbs.org /now/society/coffin.html (625 words)

	Stephen B. Coffin
		Coffin was a large property owner, but there is no probate to list his heirs in either Multnomah County, where he had his extensive holdings, or Yamhill County where he died.
		Coffin in Portland of an age to be the father of this boy.
		The Coffin claim may be described as follows: The northern boundary line begins at the foot of Madison street and runs west along Madison to Second street, thence along Second to Mill, thence along Mill west to the line of Carter's addition, which is between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets.
	www.orednet.org /~clenzen/coffin.html (5115 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: The Rev. William Sloane Coffin made his mark as activist, rebel
		From the moment in 1958 when the Rev. Coffin roared onto Yale's campus atop his motorcycle, he signaled that his presence would mean a distinctly radical approach to the social, political and moral upheaval that defined the next decade.
		The Rev. Coffin, son of a prosperous furniture-store executive, was born in Manhattan, N.Y., on June 1, 1924.
		The Rev. Coffin previously was married to Eva Rubinstein, daughter of pianist Arthur Rubinstein, and to Harriet Gibney.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002933059_coffinobit16.html (885 words)

	McClung Museum - Egyptian Coffin Face (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Anthropoid coffins, one of which belonged to the Museum’s face, were believed to be the idealized substitute for the deceased should something happen to the body.
		The tomb was the deceased’s eternal house, and the coffin an enclosure to safeguard his/her earthly remains, or spirit.
		It may be noted that the unpretentious face was part of a private coffin belonging to a person of more than modest circumstance, one wealthy enough to afford a hand carved, painted, wood coffin.
	mcclungmuseum.utk.edu /research/renotes/rn-21txt.htm (1358 words)

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		Coffin The Mutara class nebula a recent memory, three friends and a perpetual outsider relaxed in idle conversation.
		He rose, and staggered over to the torpedo casing; a small, rational part of his mind sensed an opportunity to escape, but it involved getting back into his spaceborne coffin, and for some reason his instincts were warning him against the idea.
		As he leaned over the torpedo casing, his senses allied themselves with his instincts, and he saw that this was the wrong coffin.
	www.geocities.com /dave.rogers/fanfic/coffin.txt (2962 words)

	Aboard the Underground Railroad-- Levi Coffin House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Because of his outstanding role in the operation of the Underground Railroad, Coffin has been termed its "president." It is believed that Coffin and his wife Catharine helped more than 2,000 fugitive slaves escape to freedom, using this house as a principal depot.
		Coffin was born in North Carolina and in 1826 moved to Fountain City, at that time called Newport, where he operated a general merchandise store.
		Coffin's accounts on his activities as the "president" of the Underground Railroad were published in an 1876 book entitled Reminiscences of Levi Coffin.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/underground/in2.htm (267 words)

	Jeff Coffin - Compass Records
		While Coffin's technical facility on his instruments leads him to tackle the most imposing of situations and structures, his vision of music as a continuously fluid, organic medium allows him to weave the most disparate strands together into performances of indescribable singularity and transcendence.
		With each track of Bloom, Coffin tests his own premise, seeking to unify elements of indigenous, popular, and art music on the sole common ground that they "groove on several levels." It all filters through in a lot of interesting ways, he explains.
		Coffin is equally open to non-musical concepts influencing his compositions.
	compassrecords.com /jeff-coffin (1371 words)

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