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Funeral of Giuseppe Verdi: January 30, 1901 Italy: Milan: 10,000 (private ceremony) [12] February 27, 1901: 300,000 (State funeral) [12] Funeral of Sholem Aleichem: May 13, 1916 United States: New York City: at least 250,000 [13] Funerals of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht: June 13, 1919 Weimar Republic: Berlin: 200,000 [14] Funeral of ...
The monumental funeral on 21 September 1937 started at 10 am. Main part of the state funeral was celebrated at the first courtyard of Prague Castle. Among the eulogists were Russian émigré Pavel Milyukov. The main funeral speech was delivered by President Edvard Beneš, where he included famous motto Věrni zůstaneme ("We
The memorial to Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc in front of the National Museum during the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Jan Palach (Czech pronunciation: [jan ˈpalax]; 11 August 1948 – 19 January 1969) [1] was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University in Prague.
Ceremonial Hall of the Prague chevra kadisha. The Ceremonial hall of the Prague Jewish Burial Society was built for the last service to the deceased members of the Prague Jewish Community. It is used as an exhibition space administered by the Jewish Museum in Prague. The building is an excellent example of Romanesque Revival architecture.
Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) — composer; studied in Prague; Fanny Janauschek (1830–1904) — actress; migrated to the United States in 1867; Franz Kafka (1883–1924) — German-language fiction writer; born and lived in Prague; Tomas Kalnoky (born 1980) — guitarist, singer; born in Prague; Gertrud Kauders (1883–1942) – artist; born ...
Diagram showing the positions of the guards during the lying in state prior to a State Funeral - the cross is at the foot of the coffin: 1: Household Cavalry or Foot Guards 2: Yeomen of the Guard 3: Gentlemen-at-Arms or Royal Company of Archers. There are differences between lying in state at a State Funeral, and that of a Ceremonial Funeral.
Six years after Reger's death, his funeral urn was transferred from his home in Jena to a cemetery in Weimar. In 1930, on the wishes of Reger's widow Elsa, his remains were moved to a grave of honour in Munich Waldfriedhof. Organ pipes are engraved on his gravestone. Ottorino Respighi: 1936 Composer Cimitero della Certosa di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), Ivan Král moved to the United States in 1966 as a refugee [13] with his parents, who were diplomats.His father Karel Král, a reporter at the United Nations, brought worldwide attention to the pending Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and publicly denounced the action, [14] subsequently deciding not to return. [15]