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2. Tzompantli - Wikipedia

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   A tzompantli, illustrated in the 16th-century Aztec manuscript, the Durán Codex. A tzompantli (Nahuatl pronunciation: [t͡somˈpant͡ɬi]) or skull rack was a type of wooden rack or palisade documented in several Mesoamerican civilizations, which was used for the public display of human skulls, typically those of war captives or other sacrificial victims.

3. The Weird and Wonderful World of Radioactive Glassware ... - AOL

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   The secondhand Facebook group also piqued the interest of Whitney Granger, a vintage and antique jewelry collector from Colorado. She launched the Uranium Glass Jewelry Facebook group in 2020 when ...

4. Trepanning - Wikipedia

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   Detail from The Extraction of the Stone of Madness, a painting by Hieronymus Bosch depicting trepanation (c. 1488–1516). Trepanning, also known as trepanation, trephination, trephining or making a burr hole (the verb trepan derives from Old French from Medieval Latin trepanum from Greek trúpanon, literally "borer, auger"), [1] [2] is a surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled or ...

5. Skull cup - Wikipedia

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   The skull cup from Gough's Cave. A skull cup is a cup or eating bowl made from an inverted human calvaria that has been cut away from the rest of the skull.The use of a human skull as a drinking cup in ritual use or as a trophy is reported in numerous sources throughout history and among various peoples, and among Western cultures is most often associated with the historically nomadic cultures ...

6. Shot glass - Wikipedia

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   A shot glass is a glass originally designed to hold or measure spirits or liquor, which is either imbibed straight from the glass ("a shot") or poured into a cocktail ("a drink"). An alcoholic beverage served in a shot glass and typically consumed quickly, in one gulp, may also be known as a " shooter " or “shot”.

7. Cranial drill - Wikipedia

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   The rotating crank is typically connected to several cogs that set pressure on the skull. This specific drill is not connected to any external power and is used very little in today's operations. [9] The manual cranial drill is the most used and predominant type of drill in surgery, and performs manually. It has an adjusted stopper based on the ...