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She immediately undertook various literary activities including the composition of poetry, plays and film scripts. Her first published book was a collaborative translation of a work by Nikolai Gogol in 1903. The first published book that bore Underwood's name as author was the collection of short stories, A Book of Dear Dead Women (1911). [4]
Book of the Dead of Sobekmose, the Goldworker of Amun, 31.1777e, Brooklyn Museum. The dimensions of a Book of the Dead could vary widely; the longest is 40 m long while some are as short as 1 m. They are composed of sheets of papyrus joined together, the individual papyri varying in width from 15 cm to 45 cm.
Karen Margaret Greenlee (born 1958) [1] is an American criminal who was convicted of stealing a hearse and having sex with the corpse it contained. She is considered as the "best-known modern practitioner of necrophilia", [2] [3] and her case was the subject of much research due to her sex as only ten percent of known necrophiles are women, [4] as well as because of the highly detailed ...
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a 2019 novel by Kim Michele Richardson. The story is a fictionalized account of real subjects in ... her long-dead mother, who ...
Robert Wiles, a photography student, took a picture of her corpse where it lay on top of a crushed car. The photograph of the dead lady had a "beautiful" aesthetic quality, and was republished around the world. The photograph led Time magazine to call it "the most beautiful suicide". It inspired Andy Warhol, among other artists. [2] [3]
Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor, a.k.a. Rodney Alcala, was born on Aug. 23, 1943, in San Antonio, Tex. He spent part of his childhood in Mexico before his family moved to Los Angeles.
A copy of De integritatis et corruptionis virginum notis kept in the Wellcome Library, believed to be bound in human skin Anthropodermic bibliopegy —the binding of books in human skin—peaked in the 19th century. The practice was most popular amongst doctors, who had access to cadavers in their profession. It was nonetheless a rare phenomenon even at the peak of its popularity, and ...
A woman whose job it was to open the body bags of women and prepare their bodies for burial told NBC News in an interview Monday that she saw multiple female corpses that had been mutilated.