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unusual facts about The Skull


The Skull

In real life the Marquis de Sade's body was exhumed from its grave in the grounds of the lunatic asylum at Charenton, where he died in 1814, and his skull was removed for phrenological analysis.


Simple Mind Condition

However, it was later reported that the band would start recording it in the fall of that year in time for an early 2005 release, as well as reissues of their first two classic albums Psalm 9 and The Skull.


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Adrian Street

After retiring from full-time in-ring work, Street ran the Skull Krushers Wrestling School until being forced to close doors following severe damage from Hurricane Ivan.

André Tchaikowsky

In 2008, the skull was finally held by David Tennant in a series of performances of Hamlet at the Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Argentiniformes

The hypaxial muscle is unusually extended to forward at its upper end and attaches to the neurocranium below the spine, perhaps to snap the upper part of the skull down when catching prey.

Becklespinax

According to Ralph Molnar the two spines closest to the skull are ankylosed or fused.

Cristian Gil Mosquera

Gil suffered severe injuries to the skull and thorax in a car crash in 2009, on the road to and just outside La Libertad.

Cryptolacerta

It is known from a nearly complete and articulated skeleton including the skull, which was found in the Messel/Messel Pit locality of Germany.

Dean Razorback V

Corey Beaulieu, one of the guitarists in Trivium, was one of the first guitarists to use the Dean Dime Razorback V. He used to use the USA Razorback V Explosion, USA Razorback V Red with Black Bevels, the USA made Razorback V with the Skull graphics, USA Blood Angel V Razorback, and his own signature model, the CBV 1122, a drastic variation on the original design.

Edward Loranus Rice

The development of the skull of the skink, Eumeces quinquelineatus L. Journal of Morphology 34(1):120-243.

Emissary

Emissary veins, valveless veins which normally drain the intracranial venous sinuses to veins on the outside of the skull

F. A. Mitchell-Hedges

However he published no mention of the skull until the late 1940s, not long after a crystal skull was auctioned off by Sydney Burney at Sotheby's in 1943.

Feilongus

The skull and lower jaws held 76 long, curved needle-like teeth, eighteen in the upper, nineteen in the lower jaw, confined to the beak ends, the anterior third, of the jaws.

General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian

At the beginning of the French and Indian War, young George Washington is said to have let Indian chief Tanaghrisson seal their fresh alliance by smashing the skull of Joseph Coulon de Jumonville, a wounded French officer they just took as prisoner, then washing his hands in the man's brain.

Hauptmann Deutschland

Although they captured the Skull and subsequently his Skeleton Crew, they later surrendered the Skull to a false Thor, Iron Man and Captain America, who were actually shapeshifting "bioplastoid" androids created by the Skull's lackey Arnim Zola.

Hellboy: Darkness Calls

At that moment Vasilisa, appearing at the cottage's door, subdues Koschei with light from the skull she received from Baba Yaga in her legend.

Hellboy: The Crooked Man and Others

A month later the BPRD are staking out North Carolina's Ocracoke Island, the antique dealer's ghost (communicating via medium) having tipped them off to the theft of what they realize is the skull of the legendary pirate.

History of psychosurgery

Trepanning, the practice of drilling holes in the skull, dates back to prehistoric times and is thought to have been used in the treatment of mental disorders.

Höchstädt an der Donau

The carnage of that battle was so horrific (over 20,000 men had died at the end of the day) that farmers are said to still dig up skulls from the fields today, as described in the poem After Blenheim, written by Robert Southey, which tells about children finding the skull of one of the "... many thousand men, said he, Were slain in that great victory"

Homo floresiensis

Prior to Jacob's removal of the fossils, a CT scan was taken of the skull and a virtual endocast of the skull (i.e., a computer-generated model of the skull's interior) of H. floresiensis was produced and analyzed by Dean Falk et al. This team concluded that the brainpan was not that of a pygmy nor an individual with a malformed skull and brain.

John Peter Smith Hospital

Fetus also had fluid building up inside the skull (Hydrocephalus) and possibly had a heart problem.

José Guadalupe Posada

Posada's best known works are his calaveras, which often assume various costumes, such as the Calavera de la Catrina, the "Skull of the Female Dandy", which was meant to satirize the life of the upper classes during the reign of Porfirio Díaz.

Julien Dubuque

In 2012, members of the Dubuque County Historical Society and curators at the National Mississippi River Museum asked forensic artist Karen T. Taylor to create a facial reconstruction based on the skull of Julien Dubuque.

Karen T. Taylor

In early 2012, members of the Dubuque County Historical Society and curators at the National Mississippi River Museum asked Taylor to create a 2D facial reconstruction based on the skull of Julien Dubuque, founder of Dubuque, Iowa.

Mesorhinosuchus

Jaekel (1910) found a potential match of the sediment in which the skull was preserved to the Wipperbrücke, Parforcehaus locality, a horizon at the very base of the Middle Buntsandstein near Bernburg.

Monolake

In 2008 T++ followed Ricardo Villalobos in bridging the gap between minimal techno and dubstep, by remixing Shackleton's Death Is Not Final for the Skull Disco label.

Oddball paradigm

It has been found that an event related potential across the parieto-central area of the skull that is usually around 300 ms and called P300 is larger after the target stimulus.

OH 24

The skull was found crushed almost flat and was therefore named after the famously skinny model of the time Twiggy.

Örvar-Oddr

Oleg's death from "the skull of a horse" is the subject of one of the best known ballads in the Russian language, written by Alexander Pushkin in 1826.

Palvennia

The skull is 860 mm long, but is unusual in having a very short rostrum (~0.6× the skull length), similar to Ichthyosaurus breviceps.

Pholcus phalangioides

The cellar spider (Pholcus phalangioides), also known as the skull spider due to its cephalothorax looking like a human skull, is a spider of the family Pholcidae.

Pihen-lès-Guînes

Mammoth tusks and the skull of a woolly rhinoceros were uncovered during the construction of a departmental road.

Prodiplocynodon

The skull was collected by the American Museum Expedition of 1892 from exposures near the Cheyenne River in Niobrara County.

Ring Raiders

Scorch (voiced by Rodger Bumpass) – Stanley Smith (not to be confused with the CIA agent-patriarch of American Dad) is the identity of Scorch who is founder and director of the Skull Squadron.

Robert Perrino

As Perrino entered the club, Baldassare Amato, waiting inside the social club, shot Perrino several times in the back of the skull and immediately left with Cardello.

Rupert Cambridge, Viscount Trematon

One of his friends died from injuries and Trematon was taken to a nearby hospital at Belleville-sur-Saône with a slight fracture of the skull.

Russell Trust Association

The business and political network of the Skull and Bones was detailed by Hoover Institution scholar Antony C. Sutton in the exposé, America's Secret Establishment.

Skull Bearers

Kapalika means "Bearer of the Skull bowl" in Hindu culture

Skull Cave

The Skull Cave includes two treasure rooms, The Minor Treasure room with gold and jewels, and the major treasure room which includes invaluable, historical treasures, like the snake that killed Cleopatra, Excalibur, sword of King Arthur, the diamond cup of Alexander The Great, Shakespeare's original Hamlet script, and much more, including one of Alfred Nobel's first sticks of dynamite.

Skull crucible

The Skull Crucible process was developed at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow to manufacture cubic zirconia.

Starchild skull

According to Pye, the skull was found around 1930 in a mine tunnel about 100 miles (160 km) southwest of Chihuahua, Mexico, buried alongside a normal human skeleton that was exposed and lying supine on the surface of the tunnel.

Steen Fenrich

The remains were identified as those of Steen Fenrich by his Social Security number, which had been written on the skull, along with racial and homophobic slurs.

Vasili Blokhin

Then, without a hearing, the reading of a sentence or any other formalities, each prisoner was brought in and restrained by guards while Blokhin shot him once in the base of the skull with a German Walther Model 2 .25

Walter Jackson Freeman II

After almost ten years of performing lobotomies Freeman heard of a doctor in Italy named Amarro Fiamberti who operated on the brain through his patients’ eye sockets, allowing him to access the brain without drilling through the skull.

Wingdings

After September 11, 2001, an email was circulated claiming that entering 'Q33 NY', which it claims is the flight number of the first plane to hit the Twin Towers, in Wingdings would bring up a character sequence of a plane flying into two towers, followed by the skull and crossbones symbol and the Star of David.