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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]
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Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2013.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
One holiday friendship has captured hearts across America: the unique bond between “Thanksgiving Grandma” Wanda Dench and her stranger-turned-friend Jamal Hinton.. But this year, it is Dench ...
Chandler David Owens Sr. (October 2, 1931 – March 6, 2011) was an American minister and Holiness Pentecostal denomination leader of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), for which he served as the Presiding Bishop from 1995 to 2000, after the death of Bishop Louis Henry Ford.
Christopher Branford Bell (January 12, 1951 – December 27, 1978) was an American musician and singer-songwriter. Along with Alex Chilton , he led the power pop band Big Star through its first album #1 Record (1972).
Mohammad Naseem, (Urdu: محمد نسیم; 6 September 1924 – 22 April 2014), was a British Muslim leader and political activist.Nassem worked as a GP before later becoming chairman of the Birmingham Mosque Trust (Birmingham Central Mosque), one of the largest and most prominent Islamic places of worship in the United Kingdom.