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Neptune Society is an American company that offers cremation services and operates the Neptune Memorial Reef and the Neptune Society Columbarium. It was founded in 1973 and has faced some controversies over the handling of remains.
A historic neoclassical building that houses over 8,500 niches for human ashes in San Francisco. Learn about its history, architecture, notable interments and how to visit this non-denominational burial place.
Neptune Memorial Reef is an underwater columbarium and artificial reef off the coast of Key Biscayne, Florida. It contains cremated remains of over 125,000 people, including chef Julia Child, and is a home for sea life and a destination for divers.
Service Corporation International (SCI) is a public company that provides funeral goods and services, cemetery property and services, and pre-planning in the US and Canada. It operates under various brands and has faced controversies over costs, embalming, and acquisitions.
Neptune was mathematically predicted and observationally confirmed in 1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, based on calculations by Urbain Le Verrier and John Couch Adams. The planet had been seen and recorded by Galileo, Lalande, and John Herschel before its discovery, but not recognized as a planet.
Neptune's Navy is the name of the ships operated by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for marine conservation. The article mentions the Earthrace, later renamed Ady Gil, as one of the past vessels that sank after a collision with a Japanese whaler in 2010.
John Couch Adams was a British mathematician and astronomer who predicted the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics. He also explained the origin of meteor showers and won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Ocean Networks Canada is a research and ocean observing facility owned by the University of Victoria and managed by the ONC Society. It operates cabled observatories in the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Canada, collecting data on various aspects of the ocean.