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4 unusual facts about mummy


History of Larkana

Its product of cloth was shifted from Mohen-Jo-Daro to the rest of countries via water ways, in the mean time the same cloth was used for mummification in Egypt.

Jake Arnott

Having left Aylesbury Grammar School at 17, he had various jobs including labourer, mortuary technician, artist's model, theatrical agency assistant, actor with the Red Ladder Theatre Company in Leeds and appeared as a mummy in the film The Mummy.

Mummy: The Resurrection

This resurrected mummy character was revived by combining his original soul with his mummified body using a magical spell granted by the god Osiris himself (in the case of Egyptian mummies), ancient Inca spirits (in the case of South American mummies) or the Eight Immortals, in the case of Chinese mummies.

Mummy's Dummies

Mummy's Dummies takes place during the reign of King Rootentootin, played by the rather tall and rotund Vernon Dent, but in the film We Want Our Mummy, Rootinrootin is said to be a midget.


A Kind of Alaska

Speaking of Pauline, Deborah states, bluntly: "She is a widow. She doesn't go to her ballet classes any more. Daddy and Estelle and Mummy who is actually dead are on a world cruise. They've stopped off in Bangkok. It'll be my birthday soon. I think I have the matter in proportion" (40).

A Present for Everyone

The band recorded covers of "Build Me Up Buttercup", "That's Entertainment", "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", "O Holy Night", "Teenage Kicks", "Where is the Love?", "Fall at Your Feet" and "Runaway Train", as well as new tracks "Peaches", "Let it Go" and "Mummy Trade", all of which appeared as B-sides to "Air Hostess".

Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton

Hamilton had a strong interest in Ancient Egyptian mummies, and was so impressed with the work of mummy expert Thomas Pettigrew that he arranged for Pettigrew to mummify him after his death.

Alien Investigations

Investigators examine the Metepec creature found in the Mexican town of Metepec, the Montauk Monster found washed up in Long Island, New York, a mummy with an elongated head found by an anthropologist in the Peruvian Andes and a pale, snub-nosed creature seen by four teenage Panamanian boys.

Amazing Fantasy

In 2008, an anonymous donor bequeathed the Library of Congress the original 24 pages of Ditko art for Amazing Fantasy #15, including Spider-Man's debut and the stories "The Bell-Ringer", "Man in the Mummy Case", and "There Are Martians Among Us".

Archaeogenetics of the Near East

It was reported in the PBS description of the National Geographic TV Special on this study entitled "Quest for the Phoenicians" that ancient DNA was included in this study as extracted from the tooth of a 2500 year-old Phoenician mummy.

Asiris Nuna

When the mummy throws a statue of the Sphinx at a glass pane, the glass shatters prior to being hit.

Atiqa Odho

She later starred in a string of successful films, including Jo Darr Gya Woh Marr Gya, Mummy and Mujhe Chand Chahiye.

Beerkada

Vernon once won a prize from a Halloween contest by allowing Alan to suit him up as a toilet paper mummy.

Bob McFadden

In 1959, he appeared as a singer with folk music artist, Rod McKuen, on the Brunswick Records album entitled Songs Our Mummy Taught Us which included the two tracks, "The Mummy" and "The Beat Generation", also released as a single.

Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy

Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy, or simply Bram Stoker's The Mummy, is a film based on Bram Stoker's novel The Jewel of Seven Stars.

Bubba Ho-Tep

While the novella and film revolve around an Ancient Egyptian mummy (played by Bob Ivy) terrorizing a retirement home, Bubba Ho-tep also involves the deeper theme of aging and growing old in a culture that values only the young.

Charley Says

The electronica group The Prodigy famously sampled the episode "Mummy Should Know" for their UK 1991 hit single Charly, reaching number 3 in the UK Singles Chart.

Emma Dodd

Emma Dodd illustrated the award-winning Amazing Baby series for Templar, was selected as a winner in the 2010 Booktrust Early Years Awards for I Love My Mummy, written by Giles Andreae (Purple Ronnie) and is nominated for the 2011 Kate Greenaway Medal for her book, I Love Bugs.

Ernest Fanelli

Fanelli was supported by Judith Gautier, the daughter of Theophile Gautier, whose novel The Romance of the Mummy had inspired the Tableaux Symphoniques.

Everton Cemetery

The head of Australian Aborigine warrior Yagan (c.1795-1833), after being kept in Liverpool Museum, was buried in the cemetery in 1964 in a box also containing a Peruvian mummy and a Maori's head that had also been kept by the museum.

Flash Film Works

For Tale of the Mummy, Flash Film works created 3-D mummy wrappings which unraveled and reformed into the mummy.

Frederick Arthur Bridgman

His large and important composition, The Funeral Procession of a Mummy on the Nile, in the Paris Salon (1877), bought by James Gordon Bennett, Jr., brought him the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Frederick VI of Denmark

After the discovery of the Haraldskær Woman in a peat bog in Jutland in the year 1835, Frederick VI ordered a royal interment in an elaborately carved sarcophagus for the Iron Age mummy, decreeing it to be the body of Queen Gunnhild.

George William Sulman

Between 2003-2004 a collaborative effort between the University of Western Ontario, Chatham-Kent Museum and sculptor Christian Cardell Corbet was created where Corbet sculpted a forensic reconstruction of what the Sulman Mummy would have looked like.

Goodbye Blue Sky

The sound of approaching bombers catches the attention of a child (voiced by a young Harry Waters), who states, "Look mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky".

Helga Liné

She starred alongside Spanish horror actor Paul Naschy in two notable films: Horror Rises from the Tomb and The Mummy's Revenge.

Henry McGee

He was also remembered by some as the 'mummy' of Honey Monster, a large, yellow, furry creature in advertisements for the breakfast cereal Sugar Puffs.

Hornby's Storm Petrel

There have also been reports of mummified fledglings and adults found in crevices in the Atacama Desert 50 km from the sea, and even reports of one fledgling being seen 150 km from the sea, and one unproven report of a bird flying into a nest in the town of Caraz in Peru, 100 km from the sea.

Hugh Marsh

with Bruce Cockburn – "Humans", "Inner City Front", "Christmas", "Waiting for a Miracle", "You've Never Seen Everything", "Big Circumstance", "Mummy Dust", "World of Wonders".

Imhotep Museum

The Museum has five large halls in which one may admire masterpieces from Saqqara such as a Greco-Roman mummy discovered by Zahi Hawass during excavation at Teti's pyramid complex, and the magnificent pair of statues of High Priest of Mut Amenemhotep and his wife, from the 19th Dynasty, found near the causeway of the Unas complex.

Julia Suits

As a certified medical illustrator and forensic sculptor, she was the first person to reconstruct the head of an Egyptian mummy using CAT scan technology.

Klaus Oeggl

He is well known for his studies on the life-circumstances and on the environment of the Neolithic glacier mummy „Ötzi“.

Lemon Grove, California

In 1966, two male teenagers ventured into caves near Chihuahua, Mexico, in search of a mummy to keep for their own.

Lipoptena cervi

Remains of Lipoptena cervi have been found on Ötzi, the Stone Age mummy from the Schnalstal glacier in South Tyrol.

Live in New York City

Additionally, all of her solo performances, which included "Sisters, O Sisters," "Born in a Prison," "We're All Water," "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)," "Move on Fast" and "Open Your Box", were deleted from the audio edition of the concert, to create a pure John Lennon album.

Lord of Sipán

The Lord of Sipán (El Señor de Sipán) is the name given to the first of several Moche mummies found at Huaca Rajada, Sipán, Peru by archaeologist Walter Alva.

Michael C. Carlos Museum

Through research and collaboration with Emory University medical experts, museum scholars were able to identify the mummy as pharaoh Ramesses I.

Mount Chocorua

Most of the events in John Bellairs' novel The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt happen near this mountain.

PowerSlave

The player finds himself battling hordes of evil creatures including mummies, Anubis soldiers, scorpions and evil spirits.

Regional Museum of the National University of San Martin

The Mummy of Shimbillo's modern blanket and sacred new clothing were made by a women's association of organic cotton weavers from the town of San Antonio del Rio Mayo, in Lamas Province.

San Pedro Mountains Mummy

This first mummy was examined using X-rays which determined that it was the body of an anencephalic infant "whose cranial deformity gave it the appearance of a miniature adult."

Shaq Fu

After speaking with a kung fu master, he stumbles into another dimension, where he must rescue a young boy named Nezu from the evil mummy Sett-Ra.

Studio Voltaire

Cathy Wilkes presented a mixed media installation entitled Mummy’s here, the first exhibition since her nomination for the Turner Prize in 2008.

Takabuti

At that time the unwrapping of a mummy was of considerable scientific interest (as well as curiosity) and later studies revealed beetles later identified as N. mumiarum Hope, 1834, Dermestes maculatus DeGeer, 1774 (as Dermestes vulpinus) and Dermestes frischi Kugelann, 1792 (as Dermestes pollinctus Hope, 1834).

To Surveil with Love

Queen Elizabeth II remarks "I'll miss that Ralph Wiggum. Reminds me of my boy", and her son Prince Charles replies with a quintessential Ralphism: "Oh Mummy, my cat's breath smells like cat food."

Universal Creative

Studio Tour (Flash Flood, Rockslide, Avalanche, Battle of Galactica, Parting of the Red Sea, Jaws, King Kong Encounter, Runaway Train, Collapsing Bridge, Earthquake, The Mummy's Tomb, The Fast and the Furious: Extreme Close-Up, Skull Island Sea, Stunt Show, Whoville, Psycho and King Kong: 360 3-D tour scenes) (1968–2010) (co-produced with Totally Fun Company, Ride & Show Engineering and Weta Digital)


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