September 2011
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Court finds pensioner's death in fire caused by... →
A CORONER’S court has heard how a man who died in a fire in his house three days before Christmas had spontaneously combusted.
The case was outlined in Galway yesterday, where an inquest into the death of a pensioner heard how investigators were baffled as to how Michael Faherty had died…
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The Macabre & Beautifully Grotesque
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Joel-Peter Witkin (born September 13, 1939) shocking photography deals with such themes as death, corpses (or pieces of them), and various outsiders such as dwarfs, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, and physically deformed people. His complex tableaux often recall religious episodes or famous classical paintings. Because of the transgressive nature of the contents of his pictures, his...
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Mystery afoot in British Columbia... →
It’s the stuff of crime novels. Eleven severed feet in running shoes have appeared on the shores of British Columbia in the past four years. For some it would be a great mystery to solve and reportedly high-profile crime experts from all over the world have been weighing in. But according to a Daily Beast article that’s attracting readers, police shouldn’t be on the look out for a serial killer...
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chocolateoatmilk asked: Hi, I'm always on the lookout for new podcasts and am therefore wondering whether you have any other recommendations than the one from Freakonomics? Anything else within 'the ossuary'-theme you'd feel comfortable to share? (: Other than that I'd like to say that I'm a conservation student, and I really enjoy your tumblr!
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NYTimes: Bones of Australia’s Jesse James Are... →
…After his execution, Ned Kelly was buried in a mass grave at a prison, the Melbourne Gaol. There his remains might have quietly and invisibly decomposed but for a mistake by 19th-century gravediggers: they used a type of lime that slowed decomposition instead of hastening it.
So when the grounds were dug up for development in 1929, startled workers found the site full of skeletons....
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Black Death did not kill indiscriminately: study →
This article’s a few years old, and I’m not sure if there has been follow-up research since 2008 confirming/disproving this, or not. Still interesting.
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“I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but careless of death, and still...”
– Montaigne (via slightperceptualproblem)
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