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unusual facts about corpse



A Body in the Bath House

When Marcus Didius Falco discovers a corpse hidden under the floor of his new bath house he starts to track down the men responsible - Glaucus and Cotta.

Agostino Carlini

Also in 1775, Carlini was commissioned by Dr William Hunter, first Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy schools, to make a cast of the flayed corpse of a recently executed smuggler.

Amerigo Bonasera

Initially terrified, Bonasera is relieved when Vito Corleone comes to his funeral parlor with the corpse of his elder son, Sonny Corleone, who has been gunned down by the Barzini Family.

Andrzej Bart

He is to seduce Queen of Castile, Juana, who is traversing Spain with the corpse of her husband.

Barbara Gowdy

The story's name is taken from a line in the Frank O'Hara's poem "Ode on Necrophilia", and was inspired by a newspaper article Gowdy read about a young California woman who hijacked a hearse on its way to a funeral, took the corpse of the young man inside the coffin to a motel room and had sex with it for several days before being caught by the police.

Champions of Angor

Wandjina's corpse would later be reanimated as a weapon by Queen Bee of Bialya.

Çiçek Hatun

He also requested to have Cem's body for a Muslim funeral, but it was not until four years after Cem's death that his body was finally brought to the Ottoman lands because of attempts to receive more gold for Cem's corpse.

Coffin

Sometimes coffins are constructed to permanently display the corpse, as in the case of the glass-covered coffin of the Haraldskær Woman on display in the Church of Saint Nicolai in Vejle, Denmark or the glass-coffin of Vladimir Lenin which is in the Red Square in Moscow.

Coroner's Pidgin

Just returned from years overseas on a secret mission, Albert Campion is relaxing in his bath when his servant Magersfontein Lugg and a lady of unmistakably aristocratic bearing appear in his flat carrying the corpse of a woman.

Corpse paint

In the 1980s, Hellhammer, Venom, Death SS and King Diamond of Mercyful Fate (who used corpse paint as early as 1978 in his band Black Rose) were the first extreme metal groups to use corpse paint.

The earliest rock groups to don makeup similar to corpse paint included Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Arthur Brown in the 1960s, Secos & Molhados, Alice Cooper and Kiss in the 1970s and, later that decade, punk rockers like The Misfits and singer David Vanian of The Damned.

Professional wrestler, Jeff Hardy, wore face paint resembling corpse paint at one point in his career.

Dreaming with the Dead

"Dreaming with the Dead" is the full-length studio debut by death metal band Ripping Corpse, released in 1991.

Eric Shapiro

Short fiction by Eric Shapiro can be found in the fiction anthologies "The Elastic Book of Numbers" (British Fantasy Award Winner for Best Anthology, 2006), "Daikaiju!" (Ditmar Award Winner for Collected Work, 2006), and "Corpse Blossoms" (Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Anthology, 2006), among other speculative fiction anthologies.

Giovanni Aldini

Mary Shelley (born Mary Godwin 30 August 1797) would have been only 5 years old in January 1803 when Aldini experimented on the corpse of George Foster.

Giuseppe Impastato

The same day, Christian-Democrat former Prime Minister Aldo Moro's corpse was discovered on via Caetani in Rome.

Hammer Smashed Face

An abridged version of the song "Hammer Smashed Face" appeared in the film, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, while Jim Carrey was present at a death metal concert featuring Cannibal Corpse.

Harold Shea

This may have encouraged him to wrap up long-unresolved loose ends from the original series, such as the stranding of Walter Bayard in the world of Irish mythology, and to resolve the unaddressed complication introduced by L. Ron Hubbard's "borrowing" of Harold Shea for use in his novel The Case of the Friendly Corpse.

Hugo Loetscher

She also criticized details like the folded hands of the laid out corpse or a Stephen King book on Dürrenmatt's bedside table.

İhsan Hakan

On 1 November 1993 he disappeared, and on 4 November his corpse was found in the vicinity of Avcılar Village of Polatlı District of Ankara, shot dead by a bullet to his head, while the bodies of gendarmerie commander Cem Ersever and his girlfriend Nevval Boz were found elsewhere.

Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains

Gerard Evans (Civilian accused of being a British Informant, IRA never officially admitted to have killed him) (1979) (corpse recovered October 2010)

Jim Knipfel

He wrote of a failed attempt to steal the corpse of the notorious American killer and graverobber Ed Gein from the graveyard at the Mendota Mental Health Institute in Madison.

Kurdaitcha

The eye of a Murray cod and flesh from a fresh corpse is coated in a paste made from fish oil and red ochre and attached to the end of the bone.

Lorenç Mallol

Lorenç presented a certain vers figurat (figured verse), Sobre·l pus alt de tots los cims d'un arbre, to the Consistori del Gay Saber in Toulouse, a mystic allegory of Jesus Christ (Ihus lo salvaire), who is the auzel(l)et tot blanch (little all-white bird), and the Jews, who are a corps mot vils (most vile corpse).

Lychpit

Lych or Lich being the Old English name for a corpse, it is assumed that the pit was therefore some kind of mass burial ground, local tradition associating it with the Danish victory over Alfred's Saxons at the Battle of Basing in 871.

Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga

Shakti Peethas are shrines that are believes to have enshrined with the presence of Shakti due to the falling of body parts of the corpse of Sati Devi, when Lord Shiva carried it.

Monk's spade

The monk's spade (under the name "Shaolin spade") was listed in Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide as a highly effective hand-to-hand anti-zombie weapon, as it can decapitate a rotting corpse with ease and its length allows users to engage opponents both from a distance and with both sides of the spade.

Murder of Helle Crafts

In the 1989 film Woodchipper Massacre, the children kill their aunt, freeze her corpse, dismember it, and then put it in a woodchipper.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes

In the seven rooms of the upper gallery are Flemish and Dutch paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries (Rubens, Carel Fabritius, Pieter van Aelst (1502–1550), Leonaert Bramer) and French paintings by Renaud Levieux, Jean-François de Troy, Pierre Subleyras and Paul Delaroche's Oliver Cromwell with the corpse of Charles I.

Natsuo Kirino

For Out, she visited a pathology autopsy class at a university but was not able to view a real corpse.

Nepenthes truncata

On September 29, 2006, at the Botanical Gardens in Lyon, France, a Nepenthes truncata was photographed containing the decomposing corpse of a mouse.

Neskhons

She predeceased her husband and her mummified corpse was placed with that of Pinedjem II in Tomb DB320 in the Theban Necropolis, in which it was rediscovered in 1881.

Niccolò Fortebraccio

Wounded, blocked under his horse's corpse, Fortebraccio was abandoned to his agony by Sforza, until he died-killed by Cristoforo da Tolentino.

Norman Jewell

As part of the ruse, the corpse of a vagrant named Glyndwr Michael was dressed as a Royal Marines officer and briefcase, stuffed with dummy secret papers, chained to its wrist.

Pablo Pineda Gaucín

At around 2:45 a.m. on 9 April 2000, in the town of Los Indios, Texas just across the US-Mexico border, US Border Patrol officers found Pineda Gaucín's corpse.

Project Ha Ha

It spans a day in the life of an unusual corporate office building, where stockbrokers must construct a method to dispose of the corpse of a lifeless prostitute, a bored worker becomes involved in hip hop music videos, love songs are graphic, and a xenophobic spy stalks them through the corridors.

Robert G. L. Waite

To supplement his scholarship and to earn whatever spending money he could, Waite held a variety of jobs, from working in the open pit mines of the Mesabi Range in northern Minnesota to guarding the supposed corpse of John Wilkes Booth in a traveling carnival.

Rolfstorp

The Bocksten Man, well preserved medieval corpse found within the parish

Sempronius Densus

While most of the assassins hacked Galba's corpse to pieces and paraded his severed head on a pole, two of them sought out Piso, who had taken refuge in the Temple of Vesta.

Seven Dumpsters and a Corpse

The first release of Seven Dumpsters and a Corpse outside of Switzerland was at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, April 2007, in Toronto.

Sir Harold and the Gnome King

Another issue addressed was a long-standing plot complication introduced by L. Ron Hubbard's "borrowing" of Shea for use in his novella The Case of the Friendly Corpse (1941), previously ignored by de Camp and Pratt.

Technarchy

Eli Bard, a closeted servant of Selene, infected himself with the programming and has also used the Technarch spawn to resurrect the corpse of Caliban as well those of Warpath's massacred tribe.

Ted V. Mikels

Six of these titles included 10 Violent Women, The Doll Squad, The Corpse Grinders, The Corpse Grinders II, Girl in Gold Boots and Blood Orgy of the She-Devils, all of which Alpha later released as a six-DVD set titled Ted V. Mikels Signature Collection, which was autographed by Mikels.

The Jewel That Was Ours

Two days later a battered and naked corpse is dragged from the River Cherwell.

The Judge and His Hangman

Jacqueline Bisset and Friedrich Dürrenmatt also appeared in the film, and Donald Sutherland played the role of the corpse of Ulrich Schmied.

The Man in the Morgue

Brennan suspects Mike Doyle's girlfriend for his murder, and Sam Potter scatters ashes across the body of Mouton, revealing an electrostatic charge, as some ashes stuck to the corpse more than others, revealing an emblem of a Cadillac Brougham, the car belonging to Richard Benoit.

The Stinking Corpse

"The Stinking Corpse" is an Aztec myth that tells of the body of a giant, killed by the Toltecs, which released a stench that would kill anyone that smelled it.

The Transformers: Escalation

The Autobots rally to find his corpse, but the Machination prove more than ready for Jazz and Wheeljack.

Tom Donahue

Donahue wrote a 1967 Rolling Stone article titled "AM Radio Is Dead and Its Rotting Corpse Is Stinking Up the Airwaves", which also lambasted the Top Forty format.


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