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Lying in state. Lying in state is the tradition in which the body of a deceased official, such as a head of state, is placed in a state building, either outside or inside a coffin, to allow the public to pay their respects. It traditionally takes place in a major government building of a country, state, or city.
President George H. W. Bush lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda on December 3, 2018. In the United States, state funerals are the official funerary rites conducted by the federal government in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., that are offered to a sitting or former president, a president-elect, high government officials and other civilians who have rendered distinguished ...
Lying in repose is the tradition in which the body of a deceased person, often of high social stature, is made available for public viewing. Lying in repose differs from the more formal honor of lying in state, which is generally held at the principal government building of the deceased person's country and often accompanied by a guard of honour.
Big lie. Adolf Hitler in the early 1920s, about the time he began writing Mein Kampf (1925) A big lie ( German: große Lüge) is a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth primarily used as a political propaganda technique. [1] [2] The German expression was first used by Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf (1925) to describe how ...
Allowing the body of a monarch or nobleman to lie in state (for the public to pay their respects) is a long-established custom dating back many centuries, and is analogous to the once widespread practice of laying out a corpse for mourners at their home prior to a funeral. The use of Westminster Hall for this purpose, though, is comparatively ...
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus is a Latin [2] maxim [3] meaning "false in one thing, false in everything". [4] At common law, it is the legal principle that a witness who falsely testifies about one matter is not credible to testify about any matter. [5] While many common law jurisdictions reject categorical application of the rule, the ...
t. e. Perjury (also known as foreswearing) is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding. [A] Like most other crimes in the common law system, to be convicted of perjury one must have had the intention ( mens rea ...
"Lying In State" is a song by American thrash metal band Megadeth. It is the ninth track from their fifteenth studio album, Dystopia , which was released on January 22, 2016. The song's music video was released for the band's 35th anniversary on January 31, 2018.