Was it really his body that was buried in Westminster Abbey in 1658, with jarring pomp and ceremony?

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Tuesday will be a day of pomp and ceremony, as the queen attends a service of thanksgiving at St.

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The Queen set out the government's plans in a speech written for her by the government amid the traditional pomp and ceremony of the state opening of parliament.

BBC: The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh

Pope Francis, meanwhile, is starting to get to grips with his new role now that the pomp and ceremony of his inauguration is out of the way.

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After arriving to loud cheers and prolonged applause on a night of political pomp and ceremony, Obama began the speech on a positive note, saying the nation was on sound footing to move forward.

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That is also why thoughts of an uprooted road in 20th century Bethlehem are worth holding on to as the pomp and ceremony of millenium celebrations - the anniversary of Jesus's birth - threaten to make us forget.

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Yet on August 27th Jack Layton, leader of the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP), who died of cancer on August 22nd at the age of 61, will be laid to rest in Toronto with all the pomp and solemn ceremony that official Canada can muster.

ECONOMIST: Canada��s opposition