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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.
This is a list of people who died in the last 5 days with an article at the English Wikipedia. For people without an English Wikipedia page see: Wikipedia:Database reports/Recent deaths (red links). Generally updated at least daily, last time: 15:40, 16 December 2024 (UTC).
In January 1949, while working as a navigator for Alaska Airlines, Elgen Long was redirected to a British Royal Air Forceb ase in Aden, Yemen.There, he and his crew joined daring rescue mission Operation Magic Carpet that would come to be known as “On Eagle’s Wings”which airlifted tens of thousands of Yemenite Jews to Israel.
General Hospital just bid goodbye to a major character. During the Friday, Dec. 13 episode, fan-favorite Dex Heller, played by Evan Hofer, met his demise. Dex had been expected to make a full ...
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Photos from Ibarra’s Snapchat show him on the day of the murder. Athens-Clarke County Court Maxwell then starts attempting to revive her with CPR before he says, “I’m not getting any pulse.
Various images are used traditionally to symbolize death; these rank from blunt depictions of cadavers and their parts to more allusive suggestions that time is fleeting and all men are mortals. The human skull is an obvious and frequent symbol of death, found in many cultures and religious traditions. [1]
Newly released images from an Indonesian zoo have animal lovers up in arms this week. The heartbreaking photos show Yani, a Sumatran female elephant, sobbing moments before she passed away on ...