When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. 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.

  3. Wikipedia:Funny biographical images - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Funny...

    English Wikipedia's image guidelines for living people stipulate that we can only use freely-licensed images of living people in articles, and our image use policy says that we can only use copyrighted images if no free alternative exists. This often means that editors themselves must take photographs of notable subjects, or that historical ...

  4. The day they dug up Lee Harvey Oswald in Fort Worth: 1981 ...

    www.aol.com/news/day-dug-lee-harvey-oswald...

    Oct. 4, 1981: The casket containing Lee Harvey Oswald’s remains for 18 years was exhumed and moved into the privacy of a tent at Rose Hill Memorial Park in Fort Worth before it was taken to ...

  5. Burial - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial

    Exhumation of those killed in Bucha massacre in March 2022. Exhumation, or disinterment, is the act of digging something up, especially a corpse. This is most often done to relocate a body to a different burial spot; families may make this decision to locate the deceased in a more pertinent or convenient place.

  6. List of mortuary customs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mortuary_customs

    Candlelight vigil is an outdoor assembly of people carrying candles, held after sunset in order to show support for a specific cause. [5] Cemeteries is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. Cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere ...

  7. Funeral - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral

    A memorial service (service of remembrance or celebration of life) is a funerary ceremony that is performed without the remains of the deceased person. [3] In both a closed casket funeral [4] and a memorial service, photos of the deceased representing stages of life would be displayed on an altar. Relatives or friends would give out eulogies in ...

  8. Embalming - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embalming

    Pottery, dishes, and other miscellaneous items from the embalming cache of Tutankhamun. While the term embalming is used for both ancient and modern methods of preserving a deceased person, there is very little connection between the modern-day practices of embalming and ancient methods in terms of techniques or final aesthetic results.

  9. Las Vegas police release chilling new photos showing Stephen ...

    www.aol.com/news/las-vegas-police-release...

    The Las Vegas Police Department released graphic new photos that provide a chilling look inside Stephen Paddock's 32nd-floor Mandalay Bay Hotel room, from which he committed the worst mass ...