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1674 in England

Two skeletons of children are discovered at the White Tower (Tower of London) and believed at this time to be the remains of the Princes in the Tower.

1799 in Wales

John Sevier, governor of Tennessee, writes of the alleged discovery of six skeletons in brass armour bearing the Welsh coat-of-arms.

8th millennium BCE in North American history

7560—7370: Kennewick Man dies along the shore of the Columbia River in Washington State, leaving one of the most complete early Native American skeletons.

Aftermath: The Remnants of War

The program features interviews with individuals involved with the reparation of the residual devastation - people who destroy unexploded munitions at Verdun and in Sarajevo, recover and identify skeletons of battlefield casualties at Stalingrad, and help victims of Agent Orange in the Aluoi Valley, Vietnam.

Arcusaurus

Arcusaurus is known from two fragmentary skeletons collected in March 2006 at the Spion Kop Heelbo site from the upper Elliot Formation in Senekal in Free State.

Bird collections

Dried tissue is removed from skeletons by using dermestid beetle larvae (genus Dermestes).

Bulukumba Regency

The traditional Phinisi ship is made from wood with many curve parts and belly of the ship (hull) is made first and then the skeletons.

Bumageddon: The Final Pongflict

Underneath this was 3 skeletons and that one was holding Imperial Leather soap.

Church of St Petka of the Saddlers

The theory was supported by the noted research worker of Levski Nikolay Haytov and to an extent backed by the 1956 excavations that discovered several skeletons in the crypt, as well as by press reports from 1937 retelling the stories of those who carried out the burial.

Cladh Hallan

According to recent anthropological and DNA-analysis the skeletons of a female and a male were compiled from body parts of at least 6 different human individuals.

Clash of Clans

Dark Elixir Troops - The Dark Elixir Troops consists of Golems, Hog Riders, Minions, Valkyries, and Witches (who can summon the skeletons of dead soldiers).

Coherent topology

A CW complex X is coherent with its family of n-skeletons Xn.

Darren Tanke

Current research and writing projects include several articles on the use of helicopters in Alberta to collect fossils and lift heavy dinosaur skeletons in their plaster field jackets; relocation of a lost (1914) Basilemys turtle quarry and other fossil turtle sites in Dinosaur Provincial Park; and a biography of Albertan amateur fossil collector and artist Hope Johnson (1916–2010).

Evil Dead: Hail to the King

Enemies the player faces include the Deadites, animated skeletons, and possessed "Hellbillies" and Wolverine scouts.

Filippo Napoletano

Starting in 1620 he reproduced in etchings part of his collection of animal skeletons owned by Johann Faber, a Bavarian physician-naturalist residing in Rome and a member of the scientific Accademia dei Lincei.

Grave goods

in a 2001 study on an Iron Age cemetery in Pontecagnano Faiano, Italy, a correlation was found between the quality of grave goods and Forensic indicators on the skeletons, showing that skeletons in wealthy tombs tended to show substantially less evidence of biological stress during adulthood, with fewer broken bones or signs of hard labor.

Hoan Kiem turtle

Recently, Đức and some researchers found skeletons of giant turtles in Yên Bái, Phú Thọ and Hòa Bình provinces.

Kasai Allstars

In 2011, Kasai Allstars took part in the Congotronics vs Rockers project, a "superband" including ten Congolese and ten indie rock musicians (also including members of Deerhoof, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Konono No.1, Skeletons and Juana Molina), who collaborated to create a common repertoire and performed at 15 major festivals and venues in ten countries.

Kenny Blank

In 1991 he starred as Linus Bragg in the movie "Carolina Skeletons" (or "The End of Silence"), featuring an African-American boy who was wrongfully executed at the age of 14, a story based on the true events around George Stinney Jr..

Luke Walton

On his right arm, there is a tattoo of four Grateful Dead-type dancing skeletons, each one with a basketball; the skeletons represent Luke and his three brothers.

Manuel Cuevas

Cuevas created Johnny Cash's black suits, the roses and skeletons insignia of the Grateful Dead, crafted Elvis' signature suits, and an inflated lips pillow for Mick Jagger that designer John Pasche modified into the logo for The Rolling Stones.

Moira railway station

During the construction of the station and the railway thousands of skeletons were unearthed, leading to a greater understanding of the Battle of Moira, the largest battle in the history of Ireland, which had occurred in 637 and the previous details of which were much less well known.

Nedcolbertia

Three skeletons of a theropod were discovered in 1993 by Christopher Whittle near Cisco in the basal Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah, dating to the Barremian.

OSC OSCar

Ultravox used one for the solo on Love's Great Adventure, and it is used for the bass on Stevie Wonder's Skeletons, Jean-Michel Jarre's Revolutions Overture, Seaweed (British musician) of Ozric Tentacles used one in his rig and perhaps most notably on Do They Know It's Christmas.

Pierre Antoine Delalande

Their collection included 288 mammals, 2205 birds, 322 reptiles, 265 fish, 3875 shellfish, and various human skulls and skeletons from a Cape Town cemetery and from the 22 April 1819 Battle of Grahamstown between the British forces under Colonel Willshire and the Xhosa under Nxele.

Piqan County

Then the skeletons were transported to the present location by a debris flow during a catastrophic rainfall event, forming a Konzentrat-Lagerstätte.

Plateosauravus

More than a dozen additional partial skeletons have been found in the Kruger National Park after a discovery by game warden Adriaan Louw on 27 March 1995.

Prehistoric Beast

As for the subsequent documentary Dinosaur!, Phil Tippett, while making Prehistoric Beast, received assistance from ILM stop-motion animators Randy Dutra (who made the dinosaur molds and skins) and Tom St. Amand (who made the inner articulated metallic skeletons of the dinosaurs).

Protoceratops

Folklorist and historian of science Adrienne Mayor of Stanford University has suggested that the exquisitely preserved fossil skeletons of Protoceratops and other beaked dinosaurs, found by ancient Scythian nomads who mined gold in the Tian Shan and Altai Mountains of Central Asia, may have been at the root of the image of the mythical creature known as the griffin.

Radiolaria

The skeletons, or tests, of ancient radiolarians are used in geological dating, including for oil exploration and determination of ancient climates.

Royal, Nebraska

The park features well preserved skeletons of prehistoric animals, and is a joint project of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and the University of Nebraska State Museum.

Saurolophus

In 1939–40, two partial skeletons were found in the Moreno Formation of California.

Sirens and Sailors

On September 13, 2013, Alternative Press released the band's single "Straightjacket" on their website and announced that the band's second LP is entitled Skeletons and is scheduled for an October 29, 2013 release.

Skeleton Lake

Roopkund in Uttarakhand, India, the location of three to six hundred skeletons at the edge of a lake

Skeletons at the Feast

Skeletons at the Feast is a novel by author Chris Bohjalian, published in 2008.

Skeletons on the Zahara

Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival is a 2004 nonfiction book written by maritime historian Dean King.

The Clan of the Cave Bear

The flint tools found in association with the remains at the first Cro-Magnon site have associations with the Aurignacian culture that Lartet had identified a few years before he found the skeletons.

The Last Messiah

Zapffe compared this mechanism to Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's concept of the life-lie from the play The Wild Duck, where the family has achieved a tolerable modus vivendi by ignoring the skeletons and by permitting each member to live in a dreamworld of his own.

This Century

Produced by Colby Wedgeworth (The Maine, Lydia), their second full-length album includes hits “Bleach Blonde” and “Skeletons” as well as 11 new tracks.

Thylacoleo

In 2002, eight remarkably complete skeletons of T. carnifex were discovered in a limestone cave under Nullarbor Plain, where the animals fell through a narrow opening in the plain above.

Uley Long Barrow

The barrow was archaeologically excavated in 1821, revealing the remains of 15 skeletons and a later, intrusive Roman age burial above the northeast chamber.

Werner Janensch

They recovered an enormous quantity of fossils of late Jurassic period dinosaurs, including several complete Brachiosaurus skeletons, then the largest animal ever known.

Western Science Center

The highlights of this gallery are the skeletons of "Max", the largest mastodon ever discovered in the western United States, and "Xena", a Columbian mammoth.

Whatcheeria

Whatcheeria is named after What Cheer, Iowa, the hometown of the man who discovered the first skeletons of the animal.

William Edward Kettler

On his hikes, he found arrowheads, cogs, and two full skeletons in what is now known to be the Indian Middens of the Juaneño (Gabrielino-Tongva Band of Mission Indians).

XO Skeletons

XO Skeletons is an electronic/hardcore/punk group from Waterbury, Connecticut, featuring well-known Boston hardcore legend Wesley Eisold from bands such as American Nightmare and Cold Cave.


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