THE CLEVELAND, COLUMBUS, CINCINNATI RAILWAY (CCC) PLAYED A ROLE IN ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S FUNERAL PROCESSION
According to the internet, the locomotive Nashville, owned by the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad (a predecessor of the CCC&I), pulled the funeral train while it traveled through Ohio. The timetable shows the train leaving Cleveland at midnight and arriving in Columbus at 7:30am, pas
Shi (personator)
The shi (Chinese: 尸; pinyin: shī; Wade–Giles: sh’ih; lit. ‘corpse’) was a ceremonial “personator” who represented a dead relative during ancient Chinese ancestral sacrifices. In a shi ceremony, the ancestral spirit supposedly would enter the descendant