ethnic group group Gi Tri ng image poptime 30,243 1999 est. popplace Vietnam Kon Tum Province Kon Tum rels Traditional religion langs Vietnamese language Vietnamese , others related The Gie Trieng people lang vi ng i Gi Tri ng are an ethnic group in Vietnam . Most Gie Trieng live in the province of Kon Tum Province Kon Tum , in Vietnam s T y Nguy n Central Highlands region, and in 1999 the population was 30,243. They speak a Mon Khmer languages Mon Khmer language. They practice the custom of interring bodies of the dead by hanging the coffin on a tree. Notable Gie Trieng A Hu nh, football star, half back of Vietnam national football team, playing for the Hoang Anh Gia Lai F.C. Ho ng Anh Gia Lai Club. Ethnic groups in Vietnam Category Ethnic groups in Vietnam vietnam stub vi Ng i Gi Tri ng ... more details
File Regola S. Maria dell Orazione e Morte.JPG thumb 240px Santa Maria dell Orazione e Morte. Santa Maria dell Orazione e Morte Saint Mary of the Prayer and Death is a small church in central Rome , on Via Giulia between the Tiber and the Palazzo Farnese . First built in 1575, the church was completely rebuilt by Ferdinando Fuga in 1733 using an elliptical plan. Inside may be seen frescoes of St. Anthony Abbot and St. Paul of Thebes by Giovanni Lanfranco these were removed and transferred to this church from a now lost structure built by Odoardo Farnese . In the first chapel at the right is a Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine in the main chapel is a Crucifixion altarpiece 1680 by Ciro Ferri . In the second chapel to the left is St. Giuliana Falconieri Receives the Habit From St. Filippo Benizi 1740 by Pier Leone Ghezzi . In the first chapel to the left features an altarpiece of the Rest on the Flight to Egypt painted by Lorenzo Masucci . Santa Maria was built by a confraternity that assumed responsibility for interring abandoned corpses in Rome. It is remarkable for the depictions of laureled skulls over the fa ade entrance and other death imagery. In this it has some of the morbid encrustations also seen in the Roman church of the Capuchins. Its charity was, and still is, supported by a the Arciconfraternita di Santa Maria dell Orazione e Morte , a purgatorial society dating to the 1560s. Burials were performed in their cemetery, once sited on the banks of the Tiber adjacent to the church. Architect Fuga and San Carlo Borromeo were members of the fraternity. gallery File Rome Santa Maria dell Orazione e Morte Kruisiging Ciro Ferri 12 01 2011 17 37 04.JPG Crucifixion by Ciro Ferri File Rome Santa Maria dell Orazione e Morte 12 01 2011 17 35 20.JPG Interior gallery Sources http www.morelli.it aom Official website http www.romecity.it Santamariadellorazione.htm Romecity website coord missing Italy Category Roman Catholic churches in Rome Maria dell Orazione Categor ... more details
Infobox cemetery name Beverly National Cemetery image imagesize 250px caption established 1863 country United States location Beverly, New Jersey type Military Veterans owner United States Department of Veterans Affairs US Department of Veterans Affairs size convert 64.6 acre ha graves 49,080 website http www.cem.va.gov CEM cems nchp beverly.asp Beverly National Cemetery findagrave http www.findagrave.com cgi bin fg.cgi?page cr&CRid 99893&CScn bever&CScntry 4&CSst 33& Beverly National Cemetery political nrhp Infobox nrhp embed yes name Beverly National Cemetery nrhp type image caption nearest city Edgewater Park Township, New Jersey lat degrees 40 lat minutes 3 lat seconds 16 lat direction N long degrees 74 long minutes 55 long seconds 14 long direction W coord display inline,title locmapin New Jersey built 1864 architect Meigs, Montgomery C. architecture Late Victorian, Second Empire added October 15, 1997 area convert 64.4 acre m2 sigfig 3 governing body VETERANS ADMINISTRATION mpsub http pdfhost.focus.nps.gov docs NRHP Text 64500397.pdf Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS refnum 97001201 ref name nris NRISref version 2009a ref Beverly National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Beverly, New Jersey Beverly , in Burlington County, New Jersey Burlington County , New Jersey . It encompasses convert 64.6 acre , and as of the end of 2008, had 49,080 interments. History The original cemetery was only a single acre off of Beverly s Monument Cemetery, purchased from a local resident in 1863 for the purpose of interring Union Army casualties who died in the Beverly United States Army hospital run for the duration of the Civil War . Additional land was acquired in 1936, 1937, 1948, and 1951. It served as a burial ground only for those veterans who died in nearby hospitals, until space in the nearby Philadelphia National Cemetery became limited, and many interments that would have been made there were made at Beverly instead. Beverly Natio ... more details
Image Cryptate of pottasium cation.jpg thumbnail Structure of 2.2.2 Cryptand encapsulating a potassium cation purple . At crystalline state, obtained with an X ray diffraction. ref cite journal author Alberto, R. Ortner, K. Wheatley, N. Schibli, R. Schubiger, A. P. title Synthesis and properties of boranocarbonate a convenient in situ CO source for the aqueous preparation of sup 99m sup Tc OH sub 2 sub sub 3 sub CO sub 3 sub sup sup journal J. Am. Chem. Soc. year 2001 volume 121 pages 3135 3136 doi 10.1021 ja003932b issue 13 ref Image 2.2.2 Cryptand.png thumb 2.2.2 Cryptand Cryptands are a family of synthetic bi and polycyclic multidentate ligand s for a variety of cations. ref von Zelewsky, A. Stereochemistry of Coordination Compounds John Wiley Chichester, 1995. ISBN 0 471 95057 2. ref The Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1987 was given to Donald J. Cram , Jean Marie Lehn , and Charles J. Pedersen for their efforts in discovering and determining uses of cryptands and crown ethers , thus launching the now flourishing field of supramolecular chemistry . ref Lehn, J. M. Supramolecular Chemistry Concepts and Perspectives VCH Weinhiem, 1995. ref The term cryptand implies that this ligand binds substrates in a crypt , interring the guest as in a burial. These molecules are three dimensional analogues of crown ether s but are more selective and complex the guest ions more strongly. The resulting complexes are lipophilic. Structure The most common and most important cryptand is N CH sub 2 sub CH sub 2 sub OCH sub 2 sub CH sub 2 sub OCH sub 2 sub CH sub 2 sub sub 3 sub N the formal IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry name for this compound is 1,10 diaza 4,7,13,16,21,24 hexaoxabicyclo 8.8.8 hexacosane. This compound is termed 2.2.2 Cryptand 2.2.2 cryptand where the numbers indicate the number of ether oxygen atoms and hence binding sites in each of the three bridges between the amine nitrogen caps . Many cryptands are commercially available under the tradena ... more details
Image DeadmansIslandHalifax.jpg thumb 400px A visitor reads a plaque on Deadman s Island which commemorates 195 American servicemen who died in captivity at a nearby prison on Melville Island during the War of 1812. Deadman s Island is a small peninsula containing a cemetery and park located in the Northwest Arm of Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia , Canada . The area was first used as a training grounds for the British military, and later became a burial ground for dead prisoners of war from nearby Melville Island Nova Scotia Melville Island . In the early 1900s the site became an amusement park before being annexed to the city of Halifax in the 1960s. Though development projects were considered for the site, these plans met with popular protest, and instead Deadman s Island became a heritage park, Deadman s Island Park . Geography Despite its name, Deadman s Island is not an island at all, but a peninsula that protrudes into the Northwest Arm of Halifax Harbour convert 200 m ft east of Melville Island Nova Scotia Melville Island . Connected to the mainland by a thin wedge of land, it is a swampy spit...surmounted by a piney knoll . ref cite journal journal Canada s History volume 84 issue 1 pages 31&ndash 35 title Internees, evacuees and immigrants author Boileau, John date Feb Mar 2004 ref The cove on its eastern side, characterized as likely areas for the discovery of pre Contact remains, sfn Shea Watts 2005 p 11 supports a significant fish population. Military use It was first known as Target Island or Target Hill after use by the British Navy for target practice. ref Halifax Regional Municipality interpretive plaque at Deadman s Island Park . ref The land was used by the British military during the Napoleonic Wars and War of 1812 for interring prisoners of war from a prison on nearby Melville Island. Sixty six French, nine Spanish, and 195 American soldiers and sailors died at the facility and were buried in canvas bags in unmarked graves, thus giving the island ... more details
Image DSCN4297 strata florida arch.JPG thumb right 300px Entrance archway Strata Florida Abbey lang cy Abaty Ystrad Fflur Audio Cy Abaty Ystrad Fflur.ogg pronunciation is a former Cistercian abbey situated just outside Pontrhydfendigaid , near Tregaron in the county of Ceredigion , Wales . The abbey was originally founded in 1164. The name Strata Florida is a corruption of the Welsh Ystrad Fflur, meaning Valley of the river of Flowers . Ystrad corrupts into Strata , while Fflur flowers is the name of the nearby river. ref name Founding of Strata Florida http www.archivesnetworkwales.info cgi bin anw search2?coll id 12176&inst id 40&term strata 20florida Founding of Strata Florida ref After the region around St. David s was firmly occupied by the Norman Marcher lordship of Pembroke by the early 12th century, with St. David s firmly under Norman influence thereafter, the princely Dinefwr family of Deheubarth transferred their patronage to Strata Florida, interring many of their family members there. Present day remains Lying mostly in ruins, there is a variety of remains in the area. The Abbey Church monument is in the care of Cadw . Next to the remains of the church is the graveyard , which is still active to this day, with many people choosing to be buried there. It is traditionally the burial place of the Welsh language poet, Dafydd ap Gwilym , and a memorial to him is to be found on the site, under a taxus Yew tree . The yew tree is quite famous, although it was quite damaged in storm s, when it was hit by lightning . No less than eleven princes of the House of Dinefwr of the Welsh Royal house of Deheubarth were also buried here during the 12th century and 13th century. A stone marker in the Chapter House of the Cadw monument commemorates these princes. The marker is a replica the original is housed in a small museum . The only substantive structure remaining is the entrance archway, the Great West Door to the Abbey Church, though low walls marking the extent of t ... more details
Image Figures in a cortege, tomb of Li Xian, Tang Dynasty.jpg thumb right 200px Figures in a cortege, from a mural of Li Xian s tomb at Qianling Mausoleum , dated 706 AD each figure measures approximately 1.6 m 63 in in height. Li Xian 653&ndash 684 , courtesy name Mingyun , formally Crown Prince Zhanghuai , named Li De from 672 to 674, was a crown prince of the History of China Chinese Tang Dynasty . He was the sixth son of Emperor Gaozong of Tang Emperor Gaozong , and the second son of his second wife Wu Zetian Empress Wu later known as Wu Zetian . He was known for writing commentaries for the Book of Later Han , the official history of the Eastern Han Dynasty . He became crown prince in 675 after his older brother Li Hong s death which traditional historians believed to be a poisoning by Empress Wu , but soon fell out of favor with Empress Wu himself. In 680, Empress Wu had her associates accuse Li Xian of treason, and he was demoted to commoner rank and exiled. In 684, after Emperor Gaozong s death, Empress Wu, then empress dowager , had her associate Qiu Shenji visit Li Xian to force him to commit suicide. In 706, his younger brother Emperor Zhongzong of Tang Emperor Zhongzong provided Li Xian with an honorable burial by interring his remains at the Qianling Mausoleum . Background Li Xian was born in 653, as the sixth son of Emperor Gaozong of Tang Emperor Gaozong and the second son of his then favorite concubine Wu Zetian Consort Wu later known as Wu Zetian . There were, however, persistent rumors inside the palace that he was not actually born of Consort Wu but of her older sister Wu Shun who was later created the Lady of Han . In 655, the same year that his mother Consort Wu displaced Emperor Gaozong s first wife Empress Wang Gaozong Empress Wang as empress , Li Xian was created the Prince of Lu. In 656, he was initially titularly given the post of prefect of Qi Prefecture , roughly modern Baoji , Shaanxi , and then the dual posts as pref ... more details
Encyclopedia
top
