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unusual facts about Morgue


Cornell North Campus

The study lounge located on the first floor is nicknamed 'The Morgue' due to its notoriously dim lighting, silence, and freezing temperatures for most of the year.


'Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen and Dave

They have a photo shoot (for the wedding invitations) with David LaChapelle that has the couple stripped naked and posing dead in a morgue.

Alcatraz water tower

It is located on the northwestern side of the island, near Tower No. 3, beyond the Morgue and Recreation Yard.

Annie Christopher

The death is not confirmed until the book The Mark when Hannah Palemoon finds her body in the morgue, then takes David to see it.

Devin Kelley

Her breakout role was in The Chicago Code, which she prepared for by talking to female police officers, going on a ride-along with Chicago police officers, and visiting a shooting range and the Cook County Morgue.

Gram staining

The method is named after its inventor, the Danish scientist Hans Christian Gram (1853–1938), who developed the technique while working with Carl Friedländer in the morgue of the city hospital in Berlin in 1884.

Identification tag

Toe tag, identification tag used on the big toe of a dead person in a morgue

Insect development during storage

A simulation of insects chilling in a morgue was conducted by using Calliphora vicina to illustrate that adult emergence is delayed by 24 hours, no matter in which stage the refrigeration occurred.

Louis Cataldie

Dr. Cataldie was also involved in running both the Find Family National Call Center, AKA the Family Assistance Center, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as well as the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team morgue in Carville, Louisiana.

Negley Farson

Farson went on to become one of the most renowned foreign correspondents of his day, interviewing Gandhi in India, witnessing Gandhi's arrest in Poona, witnessing bank-robber John Dillinger's naked body in the morgue just after he had been shot down by Hoover’s men and meeting Hitler, who described Farson’s blond son, Daniel, as a “good Aryan boy.”

Old Patent Office Building

During the Civil War, the building was turned into military barracks, hospital, and morgue.

Oliviero Diliberto

Fascinated by the philosophic thought of Michel Foucault, after graduating from high school he traveled for Paris where, to support himself, he briefly worked at the city morgue, preparing corpses that had to undergo autopsy.

Peter Tsiamalili

His body was transported to the Buka General Hospital morgue in Buka, the capital of the Bougainvillean government, before being flown to Port Moresby for an autopsy.

Pimpf

Pimpf, a short story by Charles Stross in his 2006 story collection The Jennifer Morgue

Sonderbehandlung

In a letter dated January 29, 1943 by SS-Sturmbannführer Bischoff to SS-Oberführer Hans Kammler, Bischoff refers to basement morgue 1 of Crematorium II at Auschwitz as a "Vergasungskeller", literally "gassing cellar".

Sparkwell Naval Camp

The Naval camp consisted of 20 Nissen-type huts for the soldiers' living quarters, a NAAFI (Navy, Army and Air Force Institute) canteen which was also used as a cinema and sometimes a dance hall as well as a sick bay with a morgue.

Steven E. Wedel

Wedel has earned praise from fellow authors Tom Piccirilli, Gary A. Braunbeck, Brian Keene and others, as well as from genre and mainstream publications like City Slab, Blood Rose and Rue Morgue magazines and The Oklahoman newspaper.

The Fuller Memorandum

Where The Atrocity Archives was written in the idiom of Len Deighton and The Jennifer Morgue was a pastiche of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, The Fuller Memorandum is a homage of sorts to Anthony Price's Dr David Audley/Colonel Jack Butler series of spy thrillers, and features two minor characters named Roskill and Panin, names which appeared as recurring characters in Price's series.

The Jennifer Morgue

Where 2004's The Atrocity Archives is written in the idiom of Len Deighton, The Jennifer Morgue is a pastiche of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and refers to the real-life Project Azorian (incorrectly named by the press as Project Jennifer); Stross also uses footnotes and narrative causality, two literary devices common in the novels of Terry Pratchett.

The Van Orsdels

As a result of their participation in the Screamfest Horror Conventions, they met famed artist/illustrator Gris Grimly, who created the artwork for the band's second CD release Miami Morgue Riot!

Thee Undatakerz

The album was not a huge commercial success but did feature the semi-successful single, "Party in tha Morgue", which would later appear on the soundtrack for Blade: Trinity.

Toe Tag

Toe tag, a tag typically attached to a dead person in a morgue

Valemont

The show follows Maggie Gracen (Kristen Hager), who after visiting the morgue to help identify the supposed burnt body of her brother Eric (Eric Balfour), decides to infiltrate Valemont University, an exclusive, historic and secretive college in rural Massachusetts from where some of the world’s greatest leaders have graduated, that her brother attended before disappearing mysteriously.

We Live

"Eko Eko Azarak" is the title of the first in a series of Japanese horror movies directed by Shimako Sato, while "Tutti I Colori Del Buio" and "Living Dead at Manchester Morgue" are named after a 1972 Sergio Martino movie and a 1974 Jorge Grau horror movie, respectively.


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