June 2011
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Autopsy Files →
Via ellamorte:
Autopsyfiles.org is a website dedicated in providing autopsy reports of famous celebrities and other infamous persons. The autopsy reports on this website have already been made available to the public; however, we strive to provide viewers with the easiest accessibility to these reports.
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To toke or not to toke, that is the question... →
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Paleontologists are looking to examine the remains of William Shakespeare, hoping to unlock the mysteries of the life and death of the world’s most famous playwright — and to prove that the poet once puffed.
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Archaeological News: Inuit remains to be returned... →
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The Canadian Museum of Civilization says it expects to return its cache of Inuit remains to Nunavut within a few months.
The Gatineau, Que.-based museum has a large collection of human bones and burial objects that were dug up by archeologists in the last century.
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Archaeological News: 7500-year-old skeleton found... →
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Bulgarian have archaeologists found the remains of what seems to be a 7500-year-old prehistoric skeleton in the region Koriyata, near the town of Suvorovo in northeast Bulgaria, Focus news agency reported on June 27 2011. The skeleton was found during the excavations of an ancient village…
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Smithsonian to display remnants of September 11... →
When a hijacked aircraft smashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Lisa Lefler left behind her briefcase as she fled to safety from her office on the 103rd floor.
Fifty-six minutes later, 175 of Lefler’s colleagues, as well as that briefcase, were entombed in the wreckage.
Lefler’s briefcase, along with more than 50 objects collected after the...
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Archaeological News: Early human fossils unearthed... →
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Ancient remains uncovered in Ukraine represent some of the oldest evidence of modern people in Europe, experts have claimed.
Archaeologists found human bones and teeth, tools, ivory ornaments and animal remains at the Buran-Kaya cave site.
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Charnel house gives up its secret: 1,000 human... →
The 5,000-year-old human bones - numbering at least 1,000, but possibly as many as 2,000 - were found in just one of the five chambers of the Banks Tomb on South Ronaldsay.
A STONE AGE burial chamber in Orkney has yielded a gruesome haul of more than 1,000 human bones, it was revealed yesterday.
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Hanged man's body 'kept in a cupboard'... →
Listen to the fascinating interview with the great-great-great grand niece of a man who was hanged in 1821 and who found his skeleton in a cupboard at Bristol University with a rope around his neck.
Mary Halliwell tells John Humphrys of the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Today’ how she has organised a funeral for John Horwood exactly 190 years after his death…
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So, whilst reading yesterday’s Guardian on my lunchbreak, I came across this interesting little factoid:
“Vampire bites, werewolf attacks and alien kidnappings - Lloyds of London has insured people for all these eventualities. Across the industry as a whole, more than 40,000 policies have been sold to insure people against alien abductions.”
Just…wow. And people say...
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Bronze Age Brain Surgeons... →
You might shudder at the mere thought of ancient brain surgery, but recent studies of the practice at Bronze Age sites in Turkey suggest that early neurosurgeons were surprisingly precise and that a majority of their patients may have survived.
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Archaeological News: Sizing up a shrunken head... →
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For first time, genetics finds tales of gruesome battlefield practice probably true
A remarkably well-preserved shrunken head has just been authenticated by DNA analysis, which provides strong evidence that anecdotal accounts of violent head-hunting in South America were true.
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CONFERENCE: 5000 Years of Death and Disease →
Covering 5000 years of death and disease, this conference aims to provide an overview of life in prehistoric and historic Britain. Seven short talks will give you an insight into people’s experience of life before modern medicine and hands-on workshops will provide an opportunity to see the effects of disease and injury on the human skeleton, while animal bones will provide insight into past...
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All the lonely people... →
The Beatles’ Eleanor Rigby, who epitomised loneliness in death, might remind us of the increasing number of people being buried at the public’s expense, writes Mark Hennessy…
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A Short History of Skulls as Decor... →
Throughout history, skulls have been particularly multipurpose symbols. Want to honor the dead? Use a skull. Promote eternal wisdom? Skull. Warn against corruption and temptations of the flesh? Skull. But the story of how the flesh-stripped head went from weighty icon to pop image decorating t-shirts, bookshelves, lamps, jewellery, and walls is a bit more obscure.
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Archaeological News: Now that's leg before wicket:... →
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When Freddie Owsley found a ‘stick’ among rocks on a Cornish beach, he decided it would make a rather handy bat for a game of beach cricket.
But the teenager was bowled over when he found out it was not a piece of scrap wood at all - but a 300-year-old shipwrecked sailor’s leg bone.
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Greetings and salutations...
…to all the new followers of this Tumblr! *waves* It’s nice to know that there are other people interested in this kind of stuff! :o)
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