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Joyce Marilyn Meyer Sommers (July 20, 1927 – December 18, 1996), also known as the Christmas Tree Lady, was a formerly unidentified American woman who died by suicide in a cemetery in Annandale, Virginia, on December 18, 1996. She was identified more than 25 years later on May 11, 2022.
Mentally disabled woman who was tortured and stabbed to death by "The Greensburg Six" Jennifer Lee Daugherty (November 8, 1979 – February 11, 2010) was an American woman from Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania , who was killed by a group of people later referred to as The Greensburg Six , in an act of revenge, in February 2010.
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
This coverage was spurred by reports that the body had been found surrounded by strange objects, and by the theories of James Tate, the pastor of the DePalma family's Assemblies of God church. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 15 ] [ 23 ] Rumors about the case set off a panic in several Union County communities, which were still recovering from the shock of the ...
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.
Practices of body ornamentation are a cultural universal (found in all human societies). They can involve body modification (permanent) tattoos; branding; body piercing; body art (non-permanent) body painting, makeup; hairstyles; hair coloring; accessories jewelry; clothing
The feature was introduced on March 8, 2018, for International Women's Day, when the Times published fifteen obituaries of such "overlooked" women, and has since become a weekly feature in the paper. The project was created by Amisha Padnani, the digital editor of the obituaries desk, [1] and Jessica Bennett, the paper's gender editor. In its ...
Geraldine "Gerri" Santoro (née Twerdy; August 16, 1935 – June 8, 1964) was an American woman who died after attempting a self-induced abortion in 1964. A police photograph of her dead body, published by Ms. in 1973, became a symbol for the abortion-rights movement in the United States.