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Bethesda Hospital (Rumah Sakit Bethesda), founded in 1899, is the oldest hospital in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is managed by Yayasan Kristen untuk Kesehatan Umum (Yakkum, lit. ' Christian Foundation for General Health ' ).
A memorial is an object or place which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects such as homes or other sites, or works of art such as sculptures , statues , fountains or parks .
A funeral procession in the Philippines, 2009. During the Pre-Hispanic period the early Filipinos believed in a concept of life after death. [1] This belief, which stemmed from indigenous ancestral veneration and was strengthened by strong family and community relations within tribes, prompted the Filipinos to create burial customs to honor the dead through prayers and rituals.
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.
National memorial is a designation in the United States for an officially recognized area that memorializes a historic person or event. [1] As of September 2020 the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the Department of the Interior, owns and administers thirty-one memorials as official units and provides assistance for five more, known as affiliated areas, that are operated by other ...
10. Camilla Buonvisi. The monument on the last pillar of the north aisle was dedicated to Camilla Buonvisi from Lucca by his husband, Vincenzo Parenzi. It is made of coloured marbles. The stone plaque is decorated with the Parenzi-Buonvisi coat-of-arms in the gable and the skull and crossbones at lower part. There is a winged cherub above the ...
An = Anum, a Sumerian god synonym-list on six tablets thought to have originated during the late Kassite era [10] [CT XXIV 20-50 [p 7]] [p 8] An = Anu ša amēli , "An is the Anu of man", undoubtedly a Kassite product according to Lambert , an Akkadian list of around 160 divine names [ 10 ] [CT XXV, pl. 47, 48, [ p 9 ] CT XXVI, pl. 50 [ p 10 ...
The Non-Catholic Cemetery of Rome is intended for the rest of all non-Catholics, without any distinction of nationality. Because of the scarcity of space, relatively few illustrious Italians are buried there, on the grounds of having expressed in life alternative culture and ideas ("foreign" compared to the dominant one), for the quality of their work, or for any other circumstances for which ...