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El Dia De Los Muertos Lives On Through The Centuries
It's an annual tradition. Burial plots are weeded, tombstones scrubbed and decorated, candles are lit – one for each lost soul. The women, they kneel and sit... all night as they pray. The men, they keep watch, talking amongst one another, drinking chocolate, atole and even carbonated soft[...]
Celebrating Spring in a Cemetery for Tomb Sweeping Day
After yet another long and bleak winter, the sun is shining brightly and spring is in the air. It's the time of year in which everyone rejoices as they begin the anticipation of summer. While many will begin their spring by cleaning out their houses and setting up their backyards with lawn[...]
Velorio del Angelito - Latin America's Little Angels
In Chile, the death of children used to be an everyday occurrence. With poor health care and spotty access to maternal care, 120 of every 1000 children born at the start of the 20th century died, but those numbers have since dropped to 9 of every 1000 born due to the improvement of access to[...]
Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day
A week after the end of the Passover holiday and a week before Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers), highways and roads become inactive. Vehicles come to a stop as drivers and passengers abandon their vehicles and stand on the streets, flanking their cars. Pedestrians freeze on the spot as a siren echos through the air at ten in the morning. The people of Israel[...]
A Final Farewell for Nurses
"Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts." ~ Florence NightingaleFlorence[...]
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