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A visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I've met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new a
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Aquaria 11/23/09 Valencia, Spain, boasts not the largest tank, but the largest aquarium in Europe, the Oceanografic.Stone/house 11/19/09 Reader Angelica Compton brought my attention to this article about an enormous boulder in a house in Margaretvill...
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Shackleton 10/28/09 A New Zealand team plans to recover some of the whiskey that Shackleton had deposited in the Antarctic.Three clocks 9/20/09 A pile of old coins which have helped keep Big Ben accurate for the past 150-years has been replaced by a ...
Manikins
The Oxford English Dictionary distinguishes between mannequin (a model of a human figure, used for the display of clothes, etc.) and manikin (a model of the human body designed for demonstrating anatomical structure, or for teaching any of various su...
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Odd animals 11/4/09 An Australian girl is injured attempting to rescue an echidna from a storm drain.Leonardo's lion 8/17/09 A portrait of Cosimo I de Medici (not by da Vinci) features the earliest depiction of a watch.Adventurers Club 8/9/09 Neighbo...
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Gossamer 9/27/09 The oldest spider web on record has been found encased in amber found on an East Sussex beach in the U.K. Scientists at the University of Wyoming have determined exactly what makes cobwebs so sticky. And about my Gossamer post, my si...
Docking cow tails
Until I read that California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger just signed a bill banning docking the tails of any of the 1.5 million dairy cows in the state, I wasn't even aware that this was done. The practice - painful, because it is usually done wit...
The biting off of fingers
I am greatly appalled by recent news reports of people venting their frustration by biting off a person's finger. This happened most recently on Wednesday at a health care protest in Thousand Oaks, California: a demonstrator bit off the fingertip of ...
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Mexican novelist Mario Bellatin wearing one of his designer prostheses.I want to follow up on my posts, but the news items and comments are coming so fast and furious that I have opted to discontinue my time-consuming practice of many small illustrat...
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Emu oil Follower Carrie Hoggan liked this post. Having lived in Chandler, Arizona, for 7 months, she went to the Ostrich Festival. "It was interesting," she says. "I tried a bite of the ostrich burger, it wasn't bad.".More than a mishap The subject o...
Death by chocolate
It was reported today that Vincent Smith II, a 29-year-old temporary worker at a processing plant in Camden, New Jersey, was killed when he fell into a vat of chocolate destined to become Hershey's candy. The vat was 8 feet deep and the mixture into ...
More than a mishap
Remember that horrific accident at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in which a teenager's feet were cut off by snapped cables on a ride? It happened two years ago and here's a timeline to bring us up-to-date:.6/07 - Kaitlynn Lasitter, 13, loses both of her...
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Multi-purpose cemeteries This post reminded Kent of the lack of space demonstrated in this video, in which the stalls at a market in Thailand are pulled away from the tracks to allow a train to pass through and then put back in place..Believe It or N...
Arms and legs
Sometimes a gravestone is not what it looks like. There are a handful that mark remains - but not a complete set! The photo at the top is the multi-purpose marker of William and Desire Tripp's infant children Wait (d. 1780) and William (d. 1784), but...
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Follow-ups Kent congratulated me on finding the speed-cooking video in my last set of follow-ups (see Autotomy). He writes, "I experienced tiny bits of that during several trips to Singapore. I had heard of the fried fish with mouth still moving, but...
