Science & Research
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2014 » July
Archive for July, 2014 Corpse Bride or Wax Statue? You decide… Folklore or morbid tribute? Her hands, just look at her hands… A Mexican Bridal Shop Mannequin Looks Just Like A Preserved Human Corpse. (Viral Nova) “In the middle of Chihuahua, Mexico, there is a bridal shop that is quite famous. However, it’s not famous because of the dresses. It’s the store mannequins that keep them on the map. That’s because, for the past 75 years, a startlingly lifelike mannequin stood in the window. That Mexican bridal shop mannequin puzzled locals. According to local legends, the mannequin is actually the preserved daughter of the shop’s former owner. Disturbing, but is…
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Poison Garments of the Victorian Age
Poison Garments of the Victorian Age …But would you have worn them anyway? Two skeletons dressed as lady and gentleman in “the Arsenic Waltz,” Etching (1862) (courtesy Wellcome Library, London) Fatal Victorian Fashion and the Allure of the Poison Garment by Allison Meier “Staying stylish in the Victorian period could be a dance of death. While industrialization and mass production made more beautiful fashions widely available, the green dresses were dyed with arsenic-based pigments, the mercury necessary to make shiny beaver top hats drove the hatters insane, and all that tulle and cinched corsets contorting women into airy nymphs would not infrequently cause them to tumble into gas lamps and…
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2014 » June
Archive for June, 2014 An Old Book, A Video Piece: An Experience of Paintings… “Thumb” through a beautiful old book from The Public Domain Review… Women painters of the world from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day; 1905; edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow; The Copp Clark Company Limited, Toronto. “A heavily illustrated collection of essays, edited by British art critic Walter Shaw Sparrow, focusing on notable women painters from the 15th century to the beginning of the 20th. Of the eight essays only one is written by a woman, Helena Westermarck, a Finnish artist and women’s historian active in the suffragette movement. From…
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2014 » May
Archive for May, 2014 Build Your Own Extraordinarily Strange Tesla Spirit Radio We imagine it must have delivered extraordinary strangeness in order to frighten the likes of Tesla! Build The Spirit Radio That Creeped Out Tesla Himself (The Mind Unleashed) “My first observations positively terrified me as there was present in them something mysterious, not to say supernatural, and I was alone in my laboratory at night.” – Nikola Tesla 1901 “Tesla’s Spirit Radio uses a simple crystal radio circuit connected to a computer sound-in jack to generate spooky sounds from all kinds of electromagnetic sources. As you will see, it creeped the hell out of Tesla himself…” For the…
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2014 » April
Archive for April, 2014 The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows… A beautiful, dark, much appreciated creative project about words and emotions. Welcome to The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows… “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a compendium of invented words written by John Koenig. Each original definition aims to fill a hole in the language—to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don’t yet have a word for. The author’s mission is to capture the aches, demons, vibes, joys and urges that roam the wilderness of the psychological interior. Each sorrow is bagged, tagged and tranquilized, then released gently back into the subconscious.” Peruse it here. Visit the page…
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2014 » March
Archive for March, 2014 The Clovis People: “the final shovelful of dirt” on who they were DNA analysis reveals the truth about the origin of the Clovis people… At last, archeologists have resolved the debate over the first Americans (hint: they walked). Then they screwed up a perfectly good answer to an ancient puzzle. “We finally have a definitive answer to the timeless mystery of where the First Americans came from: They walked across the Bering Straits from Asia (and not from southwest Europe paddling kayaks across the frigid Atlantic sea). The first people to successfully colonize North America are called “Clovis,” and they made their appearance in the lower…
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2014 » February
Archive for February, 2014 Bringing Back The Dead: It’s Happening This may sound like science fiction, but scientists really are resurrecting lost species. The Mammoth Cometh Bringing extinct animals back to life is really happening — and it’s going to be very, very cool. Unless it ends up being very, very bad. By NATHANIEL RICH (New York Times) “The first time Ben Novak saw a passenger pigeon, he fell to his knees and remained in that position, speechless, for 20 minutes. He was 16. At 13, Novak vowed to devote his life to resurrecting extinct animals. At 14, he saw a photograph of a passenger pigeon in an Audubon Society…
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Newton’s Dark Secrets
Newton’s Dark Secrets Was Newton a scientific genius with secret occult pursuits? Was he a sorcerer? An alchemist? Who was he really? Find out about the secrets revealed in ancient manuscripts in this fascinating NOVA special here. Emily K. Editor on 19 Jan 2014 | Ancient Wonders &Audio & Video &Mysterious History &Oddities &Science & Research | Comments (0) Comments are closed. Connect With M.J. Copyright © M.J. Rose, All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy
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2014 » January
Archive for January, 2014 Messages From Behind The Veil The Ascent of the Blessed, detail from a panel of an alterpiece of the Last Judgement. A few years ago, we focused on reincarnation related content here, so for old time’s sake let’s revisit that theme. The personal account below was written by blog editor Emily, and below that is an introduction to an interesting article about near-death experiences. Enjoy… The tunnel and angel image above was on the cover of a book in my mother’s bookshelf when I was a child. I was fascinated by the imagery, not because we were religious and believed in angels, we were not and…
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The Incans and the Egyptians: Connected through time and space?
The Incans and the Egyptians: Connected through time and space? HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE MUSEUM OF MYSTERIES! And now for some more mysteries… From gold funeral masks, nearly identical religions, obelisks with hieroglyphics, and so much more, the astounding similarities of the Incan/pre-Incan and Ancient Egyptian cultures is not to be denied. How did two cultures separated in antiquity by a vast ocean co-evolve in so many inexplicable ways? The following article delves into a huge list of coincidences that will no doubt stun you while also convincing you that there simply had to be some sort of connection between these cultures. Was there a seafaring global mother culture…
