When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Attitudes_Toward...

    [17] Death, being sorrowful and ugly, was therefore denied. Expressing sadness or emotional turmoil, Ariès argues, is likely to be equated with bad manners, mental instability, and unnecessary morbidity. Referencing anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, Ariès states that death has replaced sex as western society's greatest taboo. Children are less ...

  3. Cal McCrystal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_McCrystal

    Cal McCrystal is an Irish theatre director and actor. He is the brother of the journalist Damien McCrystal and the son of the journalist and writer Cal McCrystal. Following an early career acting in theatre, television, radio plays and commercials, McCrystal became a director specialising in comedy.

  4. Geoffrey Johnson-Smith - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Johnson-Smith

    Sir Geoffrey Johnson-Smith, DL (16 April 1924 – 11 August 2010) was a British Conservative politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1959 to 2001, with only a brief interruption in the 1960s.

  5. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Stand_at_My_Grave...

    The poem is recited at the funeral of Sir Freddy Butler (played by Joss Ackland) by Lady Annabel Butler (played by Siân Phillips) in the Episode 3 of Season 9 of Midsomer Murders ("Vixen's Run"). The poem was recited on live broadcast at the funeral of Michael Hutchence , the founding member and lead singer of rock band INXS , by his sister ...

  6. “Harry Potter”'s Maggie Smith Died Exactly 1 Year After ...

    www.aol.com/harry-potter-maggie-smith-died...

    Harry Potter fans have picked up on a connection between Maggie Smith and Michael Gambon that goes past their beloved film roles.. The two actors died on the exact same date — Sept. 27 ...

  7. Ingersoll Lectures on Human Immortality - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingersoll_Lectures_on...

    1988: Wilfred Cantwell Smith — Transcendence; 1989: Caroline Walker Bynum — Bodily Miracles and the Resurrection of the Body in the High Middle Ages; 1990: Stephen J. Gould — (title unavailable, but see for summary) 1991: Lawrence Sullivan — Death at Harvard and Death in America; 1993: Marian Wright Edelman — Leave No Child Behind

  8. Maggie Smith’s Top 20 'Downton Abbey' Quotes To Honor ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/maggie-smith-top-20...

    Science & Tech. Shopping. Sports

  9. List of last words (20th century) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_words_(20th...

    Geoffrey Saxton White VC, Royal Navy officer (28 January 1918), before being killed by a shell on the deck of HMS E14 in the Dardanelles during World War I "Throw up your hands! Throw up your hands!" [90] — Thomas Kane Wooten, Graham County, Arizona Deputy Sheriff (10 February 1918), prior to death in Power's Cabin shootout "Never." [91]