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English: First Nations Indigenous Australian protest, "Day of mourning", 1938, Russell Clark, from photo-mechanical print published in 'Man' magazine, ...
The Adams Memorial is a grave marker for Marian Hooper Adams and Henry Adams located in Section E of Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. The memorial features a cast bronze allegorical sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (which he called The Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Understanding, but which was often called in the newspapers "Grief").
Sociologically, period of national mourning are understood "as instituting states of social exception during which state authorities enact ritual actions consisting in a sequence of choreographically staged performative acts meant to create a national community of grief in the face of what is framed as a socially meaningful loss."
On the national day of mourning, the federal government will be closed, as will the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. All governmental flags will be lowered to half-staff for 30 days following.
Arthur Malcolm Stace (9 February 1885 – 30 July 1967), [1] known as Mr Eternity, was an Australian soldier.He was an alcoholic from his teenage years until the early 1930s, when he converted to Christianity and began to spread his message by inscribing the word "Eternity" in copperplate writing with yellow chalk on footpaths and doorsteps in and around Sydney, from Martin Place to Parramatta ...
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STORY: With the day declared a national holiday, a memorial ceremony attended by 600 dignitaries was held at Parliament House in Canberra for Queen Elizabeth, who died on Sept. 8 after 70 years on ...
The death wail is a keening, mourning lament, generally performed in ritual fashion soon after the death of a member of a family or tribe.Examples of death wails have been found in numerous societies, including among the Celts of Europe; and various indigenous peoples of Asia, the Americas, Africa, New Zealand and Australia.