When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Lying in repose - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_in_repose

    In the United States of America, "lying in state" is generally considered to be when one's body is placed in the rotunda of the United States Capitol. [citation needed] When the deceased person is placed in another location, like the Great Hall of the Supreme Court, they lie in repose, as was the case following the deaths of Justices Antonin Scalia in February 2016, [2] Ruth Bader Ginsburg in ...

  3. Repose - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repose

    Repose is a word meaning "rest" or "calmness".. Repose may also refer to: . Lying in repose, when the body of a deceased person is set out for public viewing; Dying, particularly used of saints in the Eastern Orthodox Church

  4. Angle of repose - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_repose

    Angle of repose of a heap of sand Sandpile from the Matemateca collection. The angle of repose, or critical angle of repose, [1] of a granular material is the steepest angle of descent or dip relative to the horizontal plane on which the material can be piled without slumping.

  5. Viewing (funeral) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viewing_(funeral)

    Viewing (museum display) Museum of Funeral Customs. In death customs, a viewing (sometimes referred to as reviewal, calling hours, funeral visitation in the United States and Canada) is the time that family and friends come to see the deceased before the funeral, once the body has been prepared by a funeral home. [1]

  6. AOL latest headlines, entertainment, sports, articles for business, health and world news.

  7. Altar of repose - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altar_of_Repose

    Altar of repose at St James Episcopal Church, Columbus, Ohio where Eucharistic hosts are reserved in a veiled ciborium overnight from Maundy Thursday to Good Friday.. The altar of repose is a temporary altar where the Communion hosts consecrated on Maundy Thursday during the Mass of the Lord's Supper are placed, or "reserved", for use on the following day, Good Friday.

  8. Post-mortem photography - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-mortem_photography

    Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.

  9. Officer of the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officer_of_the_United_States

    To all who shall see these presents, greeting: Know Ye that, reposing special trust in the integrity, ability, and fidelity of John Dow, I have nominated and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint John Dow as Librarian of Congress, and do authorize and empower him to execute and fulfill the duties of that office according ...