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  2. Wikipedia:Funny biographical images - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Mourning portraits - Wikipedia

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    Mourning portrait of K. Horvath-Stansith, née Kiss, artist unknown, 1680s A Child of the Honigh Family on its Deathbed, by an unknown painter, 1675-1700. A mourning portrait or deathbed portrait is a portrait of a person who has recently died, usually shown on their deathbed, or lying in repose, displayed for mourners.

  4. Cadaver Synod - Wikipedia

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    The Cadaver Synod (also called the Cadaver Trial; Latin: Synodus Horrenda) is the name commonly given to the ecclesiastical trial of Pope Formosus, who had been dead for about seven months, in the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome during January 897. [1]

  5. While Dexter Wade’s remains were released Monday, his family said officials failed to honor the agreed-upon time approved by a […] The post Officials exhume the body of a Mississippi man ...

  6. Post-mortem photography - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. At mass grave exhumation, daughter of Spanish Civil War ... - AOL

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    She hopes the answer will lie in an exhumation outside Madrid of the remains of more than 100 people who were executed by forces of late dictator Francisco Franco in 1939, in the aftermath of ...

  8. Burial - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. List of mortuary customs - Wikipedia

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    Ma'nene is the ritual practiced by the Torajan people (takes place each year in August), the bodies of the deceased are exhumed to be washed, groomed and dressed in new clothes. [ 15 ] Memorials is an object which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic ...