Tears of frankincense from the Boswellia Sacra tree ~ photography by Cedric Pollet.
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Because I’m so clever, But clever ain’t wise
And fuck forever
If you don’t mind
Fuck forever
If you don’t mind (I don’t mind)
Christ’s Descent into Hell (detail) from a follower of Hieronymus Bosch, second quarter of the 16th century.
An early form of facial reconstruction was used during the investigation into murderer Doctor Buck Ruxton in 1935. The pathologist superimposed a portrait of Buxton’s wife, Isabella, over a skull that had been discovered on the bank of a river, amongst other parcels that contained decomposing body parts. The portrait matched the structure of the skull perfectly, and consequently the skull was identified as Isabella Ruxton, who had gone missing a number of weeks earlier. This identification, along with the use of entomology to narrow down the point in time that the body parts had been disposed of, secured the conviction of Dr Buck Ruxton, who was hanged at Strangeways Prison for the murder.
Human skull from a patient with Proteus syndrome.
Only
a few hundred people in the world have Proteus syndrome, a bizarre
condition in which a mutant gene causes the asymmetric growth of the
body parts. The syndrome can be horribly disfiguring, was the case of
Joseph Merrick, the English of the 19th century that became known as the
Elephant Man.
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