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Lombardo's body in 2012. Thanks to Salafia's embalming techniques, the body was well-preserved. X-rays of the body show that all the organs are remarkably intact. [4] Rosalia Lombardo's body is kept in a small chapel at the end of the catacomb's street and is encased in a glass covered coffin, placed on a wooden pedestal.
Grimms' Fairy Tales. " The Glass Coffin " is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 163. [1] Andrew Lang included it in The Green Fairy Book as The Crystal Coffin. [2] It is Aarne-Thompson type 410, Sleeping Beauty. Another variant is The Young Slave.
Edith Howard Cook. Edith Howard Cook (November 28, 1873 – October 13, 1876) was an American child who died at the age of 2 years 10 months. [1] Her cast iron casket and mummified body were found in 2016 during a home renovation project in San Francisco, California. At the time of the discovery, her identity was unknown.
Bernadette Soubirous (/ ˌ b ɜːr n ə ˈ d ɛ t ˌ s uː b i ˈ r uː /; French: [bɛʁnadɛt subiʁu]; Occitan: Bernadeta Sobirós [beɾnaˈðetɔ suβiˈɾus]; 7 January 1844 – 16 April 1879), also known as Bernadette of Lourdes, was the firstborn daughter of a miller from Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan), in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in France, and is best known for experiencing ...
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye is a 1994 collection of five mythical short stories by British novelist A. S. Byatt. [1] The collection includes two short stories, "The Glass Coffin" and "Gode's Story," originally published in the novel Possession, [1] as well as the titular story, "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye", which was published in The Paris Review.
The Night of the Iguana (1961) Signature. Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.
Djedmaatesankh was an Egyptian woman from the city of Thebes (modern Luxor) who died in the middle of the 9th century B.C. She was an ordinary middle-class woman and musician. [1] Her cartonnage coffin is thought to have been buried on the west bank of the Nile about 2,850 years ago. [2] The coffin and mummy of the lady Djedmaatesankh are part ...
Marilyn Monroe is iconic for her blonde curls, red lips, and perfect beauty mark, but the star was shockingly unrecognizable at the time of her death. According to the two morticians, who prepared ...