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Design of a cloth antimacassar Armchair with antimacassar-Sheffield Mayors Parlour Antimacassars on rail carriage seats. An antimacassar / ˌ æ n t ɪ m ə ˈ k æ s ər / is a small cloth placed over the backs or arms of chairs, or the head or cushions of a sofa, to prevent soiling of the permanent fabric underneath. [1]
After the news of his death came out, Egyptian television and radio hastily began reciting the verses of the Qur'an. [2] Nasser had never recovered from the second stroke in four years. [2] He was succeeded by his vice president, Anwar Sadat. His funeral was attended by millions of Egyptians and foreign mourners, including leaders.
The state of Nasser's health was not known to the public prior to his death. [288] [289] He had previously suffered heart attacks in 1966 and September 1969. Following the announcement of Nasser's death, most Arabs were in a state of shock. [287] Nasser's funeral procession through Cairo on 1 October was attended by at least five million mourners.
The funeral was broadcast live by many countries on their state television channels. In West Germany, it was aired on Deutsches Fernsehen. Austrian television broadcast a film memorializing Tito for an hour prior to the funeral. In the U.S., all three major television networks covered the funeral, as did TF1 and Antenne 2 in France. In total ...
This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout the early modern period, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. The suicide of François Vatel
The monumental funeral on 21 September 1937 started at 10 am. Main part of the state funeral was celebrated at the first courtyard of Prague Castle. Among the eulogists were Russian émigré Pavel Milyukov. The main funeral speech was delivered by President Edvard Beneš, where he included famous motto Věrni zůstaneme ("We
Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland said she was "profoundly saddened" to hear of Magufuli's death. [51] The Chairperson of the African Union Commission , Moussa Faki , hailed the president as "a champion of regional cooperation in the East African region and a committed Pan Africanist leader".
Antimacassar, a cloth to protect chairs against soiling by the oil; Diospyros celebica or Makassar ebony, a species of flowering tree in the family Ebenaceae, endemic to the island of Sulawesi; Makassar-class landing platform dock, a class of amphibious warfare ships "Makassar", a song by Al Bano and Romina Power