History of art and death
 
A major tradition in the study of death across cultures and time has been to demarcate distinctive death time periods in Western history. The most notable illustration is Philippe Ariès's The Hour of Our Death, which propose an evolutionary model, in which death through several successive stages reverted from the tame to the savage state in the course of some fifteen centuries. He insisted on providing social context and maintaining methodological coherence, thus shifting from the study of attitudes towards death to a more sociological approach (mortuary customs and attitudes examined in their social context). One of the central themes developed by Ariès is the "relationship between man's attitude towards death and his awareness of self, of his degree of existence, or simply of his individuality."  According to him, the concept of death as a familiar and anonymous event was replaced by the suppression of death. Ariès traced the loss of the tame death to an increasing awareness of individual identity and a corresponding decline in the importance of the community, which he dated to the later Middle Ages.

Tame death

Here death was considered a process that was both familiar and near, featuring a simple public and ritualistic ceremony largely controlled by the dying person and for which friends and family, including the children, were present. This attitude is typical of primitive societies, where rituals about sex, life and death gave rhythm to the existence. Human beings started dying from the first hour of their lives. The death-in-life motif was hailed citing classical examples, for instance, the customs of Roman Caesars, who were asked immediately after their election, from what stone they would order their tombstone to be made.

Death of self

With the devastating Black Plague, increasing individualism, and the weakening of traditional community ties (with perhaps a growing collective sense of the demise of the old feudal order), dying became the time when the true essence of oneself was assumed to be revealed. Although in the seventeenth-century death was a frequent, familiar and expected phenomenon, there was an immense anxiety about death expressed through recurring images of morbidity. The macabre iconography of this era, often featuring speaking corpses, worms devouring cadavers, skeletons has been variously

Albert Einstein's brain

Albert Einstein's brain has often been a subject of research and speculation. Einstein's brain was removed within seven hours of his death. The brain has attracted attention because of Einstein's reputation for being one of the foremost geniuses of the 20th century, and apparent regularities or irregularities in the brain have been used to support various ideas about correlations in neuroanatomy with general or mathematical intelligence. Scientific studies have suggested that regions involved in speech and language are smaller, while regions involved with numerical and spatial processing are larger. Other studies have suggested an increased number of Glial cells in Einstein's brain.

Preservation

Einstein's autopsy was conducted by pathologist Thomas Stoltz Harvey at Princeton shortly after his death. In a lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Harvey then removed, weighted

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Ramadan Moon

Ramadan is a holy festival of the Islamic community. It falls on the 9th month of the Islamic calendar and lasts for around 29 to 30 days depending upon when the new moon can be seen. Read on to know more about Ramadan moon sighting.

Moon Sighting for Ramadan

The month of Ramadan usually starts with the sighting of the new moon which marks the beginning of the 9th month of the Islamic calendar.