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The 57-year-old described the stench as an "eggy, foul and awful Christmas present", adding she had previously considered moving away. "I came into my porch and I thought my husband had left ...
Musk deer of Tibet in an 1835 illustration. Musk is a class of aromatic substances commonly used as base notes in perfumery.They include glandular secretions from animals such as the musk deer, numerous plants emitting similar fragrances, and artificial substances with similar odors.
"Smell", from Allegory of the Senses by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Museo del Prado. An odor (American English) or odour (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is a smell or a scent caused by one or more volatilized chemical compounds generally found in low concentrations that humans and many animals can perceive via their olfactory system.
An evil organisation named STENCH (Society for the Total Extermination of Non-Conforming Humans) is featured in the film Carry On Spying. James Earl Ray, who committed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, used the alias Eric Starvo Galt during 1967, almost certainly a mixture of Ian Fleming and Ayn Rand. "Ernst" and ...
"The Silent Highwayman" (1858). Death rows on the Thames, claiming the lives of victims who have not paid to have the river cleaned up. The Great Stink was an event in Central London during July and August 1858 in which the hot weather exacerbated the smell of untreated human waste and industrial effluent that was present on the banks of the River Thames.
The name brôme (bromine) derives from the Greek βρῶμος (brômos, "stench"). [ 14 ] [ 20 ] [ 18 ] [ 21 ] Other sources claim that the French chemist and physicist Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac suggested the name brôme for the characteristic smell of the vapors.
Been Caught Buttering is the second album of the Austrian death metal band Pungent Stench.It was originally released in 1991 on Nuclear Blast.The original album art, which depicted two severed, partially decomposed heads kissing (in fact, it is one head which had been sawed in half by Joel-Peter Witkin), had to be changed for the Australian release.
A musk pod, obtained from the male musk deer. Deer musk is a substance with a persistent odor, obtained from the caudal glands of the male musk deer.. Although more commonly referred to as "musk", the term itself is often used to describe a wide variety of "musky" substances from other animals such as the African civet ("civet musk") or various synthetic musks whose compound exhibits some ...