Cremation of a dead body is carried out at a temperature ranging between 1400 to 1800 degrees Fahrenheit. The intense heat helps reduce the body to its basic elements and dried bone fragments.
Jack Kerouac, original name Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac (born March 12, 1922, Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.âdied October 21, 1969, St. Petersburg, Florida), American novelist, poet, and leader of the Beat movement whose most famous book, On the Road (1957), had broad cultural influence before it was recognized for its literary merits.
In the late afternoon of August 20, 1940, Leon Trotsky was killed by the blow of a mountaineer s ice-climbing pick axe at his home in Coyoacan, Mexico, where he had been living in exile. The assassin, Ramon Mercader, was an agent of the Soviet secret police, then called the GPU and later known as the KGB.