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  2. Plague doctor costume - Wikipedia

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    The costume consists of a leather hat, mask with glass eyes and a beak, stick to remove clothes of a plague victim, gloves, waxed linen robe, and boots. [2] The typical mask had glass openings for the eyes and a curved beak shaped like a bird's beak with straps that held the beak in front of the doctor's nose. [5]

  3. Durag - Wikipedia

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    Rihanna wore a durag on the cover of the British Vogue, which marked a milestone of durags as seen as a fashion symbol. [15] The character of Leon Black on Curb Your Enthusiasm is famous for wearing his durag on the show. [16] In 2021, contestant Symone wore an outfit with a durag, which extended to a train, on the thirteenth season of RuPaul's ...

  4. List of Bones characters - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of fictional characters in the American television series Bones.The article deals with the series' main, recurring, and minor characters. The series' main characters consists of the fictional Jeffersonian Institute's forensic anthropology department staff members Dr. Temperance Brennan, Dr. Camille Saroyan, Angela Montenegro, Dr. Jack Hodgins, and interns Zack Addy, Clark Edison ...

  5. Masks among Eskimo peoples - Wikipedia

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    Archaeological masks have been found from early Paleo-Eskimo and from early Dorset culture period. [2] It is believed that these masks served several functions, including being in rituals representing animals in personalized form; [14] being used by shaman (medicine man or angakkuq) in ceremonies relating to spirits (as in the case of a wooden mask from southwestern Alaska); [15] it is also ...

  6. False Face Society - Wikipedia

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    Iroquois oral history tells the beginning of the False Face tradition. According to the accounts, the Creator Shöñgwaia'dihsum ('our creator' in Onondaga), blessed with healing powers in response to his love of living things, encountered a stranger, referred to in Onondaga as Ethiso:da' ('our grandfather') or Hado'ih (IPA:), and challenged him in a competition to see who could move a mountain.

  7. Meteorologist with cancer, 33, shares message on body-shaming ...

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    Mock chose to share the details of her diagnosis on air two weeks before she started wearing a wig. She was diagnosed with stage 3 triple-negative breast cancer in May 2024, after finding a lump ...

  8. Radium Girls - Wikipedia

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    Radium-228 is more likely to cause cancer of the bone as the shorter half-life of radon-220 compared to radon-222 causes the daughter nuclides of radium-228 to deliver a greater dose of alpha radiation to the bones. It also considers the induction of several forms of cancer caused by internal exposure to radium and its daughter nuclides.

  9. Death mask - Wikipedia

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    The death mask of 18th century sailor Richard Parker Golden funeral mask of Tutankhamun Posthumous portrait bust of Henry VII of England by Pietro Torrigiano, supposedly made using his death mask. A death mask is a likeness (typically in wax or plaster cast) of a person's face after their death, usually made by taking a cast or impression from ...