http://www.funeralwisdom.com Before and after the advent of a funeral home Mon, 25 May 2009 06:50:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In many religious belief systems and funeral traditions, there is a feature that is called funerary literature or in other words funerary texts.  Funerary literature existed for thousands years since the dawn of ancient civilizations.   Specialists do not really know when funerary texts first appeared but obviously it was thousands ... http://www.funeralwisdom.com/?p=205 For those who don't know the embalming is the funeral science and art of preserving the body and help forestall  decomposition. It is one of the earliest surgical procedures and funeral traditions in the history of the humankind.  Nobody really knows who invented this process in the ancient past.  Of course, we ... http://www.funeralwisdom.com/?p=200 In 1446 a child was born in a small Italian town of Tuscany. Parents named him Luca but we know him by his full name - Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli, who was destined to become a great Renaissance man, brilliant mathematician and close friend of another genius Leonardo da Vinci.  Luca ... http://www.funeralwisdom.com/?p=97 Our contemporary funeral eulogies, epitaphs and elegies originated in ancient Greece thousands years ago.  They are all derivations of Greek funeral oration that was a formal speech presented when somebody passed away. Ancients used funeral orations to remember the dead and his deeds.  They were known at the times of Odyssey ... http://www.funeralwisdom.com/?p=96 I learned about the battle of Karanberes by chance while going through the archives of my local web analytics company.  There will be no mistake, if I call the this battle one of the most bizarre thing that ever took place on a battle field. The Ottoman army was victorious ... http://www.funeralwisdom.com/?p=95 Since the beginning of the 10th century till almost the end of 17th century many people were tried, tortured, mutilated and burnt at the stake because they were accused of participation in the Witches' Sabbath. This accusation was extremely popular during practically each and every witchcraft trials. I found extremely ... http://www.funeralwisdom.com/?p=94 If you think that witch hunts ended several hundred years ago, think again. Do you know that up to 1951 there was a Witchcraft Act in England which provided penalties for the practice of witchcraft? And that the last case when this act was enforced was not in Medieval times ... http://www.funeralwisdom.com/?p=93 On May 11 we will be celebrating Mother's Day in the US. In some ways it is our own unique holiday. This holiday is one of the most popular and commercially successful US holidays. It is the most popular day of the year to dine out at a restaurant in ... http://www.funeralwisdom.com/?p=91 Elvis Presley funeral took place in 1977.  Thousands of Elvis's fans participated in funeral services. They lined the streets to see an open casket. Funeral pictures appeared on the cover of National Enquirer making it the fastest selling issue of that publication. Presley was buried next to his mother at ... http://www.funeralwisdom.com/?p=90 I believe there is only one Museum of Funeral Customs in the world. It is located in Springfield, Illinois, near Oak Ridge Cemetery, the site of Abraham Lincoln's tomb. Our team of  web analysts,  came to visit the museum along with the rest of the staff.  The museum contained ... http://www.funeralwisdom.com/?p=89