A bequest for a Mass occurs when a person leaves a bequest in their will for a Mass to be said for the repose of their soul. In England after the Reformation...
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J. M. W. Turner (redirect from Turner Bequest)
conservation which was unusual at the time. In 1910, the main part of the Turner Bequest, which includes unfinished paintings and drawings, was rehoused in the...
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Austen Henry Layard (redirect from Layard Bequest)
extricate from Venice and bequeath to the National Gallery (as the Layard Bequest) and other British museums. Layard was born in Paris, France, to a family...
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West Brookfield, Massachusetts (redirect from West Brookfield, Mass)
Merriam-Gilbert Public Library after it received an unexpected and generous bequest from Helen E. Gilbert, a former West Brookfield native. The exterior of...
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Middleton, Massachusetts (redirect from Middleton, Mass)
1891 at the bequest of Charles L. Flint, the first Secretaries of the MA Board of Agriculture a former president of UMass Amherst as Mass. Agricultural...
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Komenda (redirect from Svešek Alder Mass Grave)
vaulted interior, and an arcaded walkway in the rear. It was built at the bequest of Peter Pavel Glavar to serve the poor, infirm, and aged. The hospital...
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Hopkinton, Massachusetts (redirect from Hopkinton, Mass)
downtown, just steps away from the Town Common, since 1895. Until 1955, bequests were the only source of funding for the library. Since that time, the town...
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Wareham, Massachusetts (redirect from Wareham, Mass)
although it only allows for national service. Tobey Hospital was funded by a bequest from the estate of Alice Tobey Jones. The hospital was opened in 1940 and...
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2009 Collier Township shooting (category 2009 mass shootings in the United States)
shooting, also referred to as the Bridgeville LA Fitness shooting, was a mass shooting and murder-suicide that took place on August 4, 2009, in an LA Fitness...
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Peabody, Massachusetts (redirect from Peabody, Mass.)
Peabody Institute Library, a public library established in 1852 following a bequest from philanthropist and Peabody resident George Peabody. Tillie's Farm...
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riches among the poor. Eutychia suggested that the sums would make a good bequest, but Lucy countered, "...whatever you give away at death for the Lord's...
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other historians assert that the bequest had nothing to do with the kingship, and Alfred Smyth argues that the bequest was provision for Æthelwulf's young...
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Chicago. In 1986, he mortgaged his home and invested his life savings and a bequest from his father into founding Ty Inc. Warner started out selling stuffed...
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Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. Widely regarded as Van Gogh's magnum opus, The Starry Night is one of...
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a parishioner of the London Oratory, and in her will, she left them a bequest that is used to fund their choir programme. Feast Days: Recipes from the...
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conclusion of Eighty Years' War involving the Habsburgs, and his architectural bequest, marked by commissioned works of art and buildings. His pageantry, opulent...
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made a new will detailing the disposal of his property at his death, with bequests to the church, his children, and his grandchildren. Einhard (possibly relying...
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Littleton, Massachusetts (redirect from Littleton, Mass)
Houghton. The elder Houghton, a Littleton native, had in 1884 made a bequest to the town for the establishment of a library collection in honor of Reuben...
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before 946 (?) possibly during the reign of King Edmund by Alfgar who left bequest to the community of Stoke; land granted to Ely by King Edgar BlackFriars...
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bequest to the University of Minnesota helped create the journalism department now known as the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass...
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November 15, 2022 (2022-11-15) 2.35 Dr. Goodwin confronts New Amsterdam's bequest department, which attends to elderly patients when their families are not...
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"Lizzie Borden's Will Is Probated". The New York Times. AP. June 25, 1927. "Bequest for Tomb of Slain Father". The New York Times. June 8, 1927. Radio section...
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Middleborough, Massachusetts (redirect from Middleborough, Mass)
first philanthropies in The Pratt Free School, later adding additional bequests upon its incorporation in 1865. It later became a grammar school, preparing...
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of providing a Twelfth Night cake. The will of Robert Baddeley made a bequest of £100 to provide cake and punch every year for the company in residence...
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sportscaster John Ferguson (Ferguson bequest) (1787–1856), Scottish businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Ferguson bequest John Ferguson (clergyman) (1852–1925)...
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Gregory was criticized after the archdiocese used $2.2 million from a bequest to build a new archbishop's residence in the Buckhead section of Atlanta...
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and rose to $630 million per year in 1987, described as the "biggest bequest to any Third World insurgency". The first CIA-supplied weapons were antique...
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Gallery, one of the finest art museums in the world, was founded on a large bequest from the last member of the Medici family. It is located at the corner...
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without heirs in 1835, President Andrew Jackson informed Congress of the bequest, which amounted to about US$500,000 (US$18 million in 2024 dollars after...
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Myles Standish Burying Ground, Duxbury, Mass. (a daughter) was born ca. 1661, based on the wording of various bequests in Philip's will. There is no further...
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