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  2. Funeral toll - Wikipedia

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    Historically, a bell would be rung on three occasions around the time of a death. The first was the "passing bell" to warn of impending death, followed by the death knell which was the ringing of a bell immediately after the death, and the last was the "lych bell", or "corpse bell" which was rung at the funeral as the procession approached the church. [1]

  3. Ohlsdorf Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Hamburg: Kabel Verlag. ISBN 3-8225-0470-X. Great Britain. Commonwealth War Graves Commission (1988), The war dead of the Commonwealth: the register of the names of those who fell in the Great War and are buried in Hamburg Cemetery, Ohlsdorf Germany., Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK: Commonwealth War Graves Commission, OCLC 222665010

  4. Death knell - Wikipedia

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    In England, an ancient custom was the ringing of church bells at three specific times before and after the death of a Christian. Sometimes a passing bell was first rung when the person was still dying, [1] [2] then the death knell upon the death, [3] and finally the lych bell, which was rung at the funeral as the procession approached the church.

  5. File:Hamburg, Bronze Medal 1859 Friedrich Schiller 100th ...

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  6. Timeline of Hamburg - Wikipedia

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    13 September: Hamburg-Neugraben and Hamburg-Sasel subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp established. The prisoners were Jewish women. [50] [51] 13 September: Women prisoners of the Hamburg-Veddel subcamp moved to other subcamps in Hamburg and Wedel. [48] 15 September: 2,000 male prisoners deported to the Hamburg-Veddel subcamp of ...

  7. Altstadt, Hamburg - Wikipedia

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    Detail of a 1790s map of Hamburg. The area of today's Altstadt had a minor Bronze Age settlement dating from the 9th or 8th century BC. An Ingaevonian settlement at this location was known by the name "Treva" – a strategic trading node on amber routes during Iron Age and Late Antiquity.

  8. History of Hamburg - Wikipedia

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    Hamburg was the port for most Germans and Eastern Europeans to leave for the New World and became home to trading communities from all over the world (like a small Chinatown in Altona, Hamburg). In 1903, the world's first organised club for social and family nudism , Freilichtpark (Open-air Park) was opened in Hamburg. [ 33 ]

  9. Hamburg Blues Band - Wikipedia

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    The Hamburg Blues Band's former keyboard player, Adrian Askew, was also a member of the revived Lake. British saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith (formerly Bluesbreakers and Colosseum ) was an integral part of Hamburg Blues Band from its 1982 inception until his death from cancer in 2004.