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unusual facts about Dead Souls



Corporate-owned life insurance in the United States

Pejorative names for the practice include janitor's insurance and dead peasants insurance, the latter of which refers to the plot of Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls.

Margulies

It is not obvious why Ian Rankin chose Margulies as the name of an old Scottish Christian family in his novel Dead Souls.


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Alexander Karasyov

With a command since childhood of foreign languages, to which their forefathers had no access, enjoying freedom of speech, the absence of censorship, the opportunity to travel all over the world – for example, to spend time in Gogol's beloved Rome, where he wrote Dead Souls and to read books that used to be banned, they are creating a new type of literature.

Angel Clare

"Feuilles-Oh/Do Space Men Pass Dead Souls On Their Way To The Moon?", the fifth track of the album, was a combination of the traditional Haitian folk song with a middle section based on the melody of J.S. Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" Choral N°33, and lyrics by Garfunkel's then fiancée, Linda Marie Grossman.