Quigley's Cabinet

Being a visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I've met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new acquisitions to my “museum”; and (reluctantly) my health, having been diagnosed with MS in 1990. "Satisfying my morbid curiosity and yours..."

Showing posts with label Astronomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Astronomy. Show all posts
Sunday, December 15, 2013

Pendulum plummeted

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In 1851, French physicist Léon Foucault c onstructed a device to demonstrate the rotation of the earth to Napoleon III and the Parisian e...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Busted

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While it is uncertain that Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet ever existed, romantics flock to Verona, Italy, to the Casa di Giulietta (J...
Friday, October 11, 2013

Space scarab

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I may have seen this amulet belonging to King Tutankhamun when I visited the traveling exhibition of his treasures in the 1970s. Little ...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Aurora from above

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We've seen beautiful photographs, like those above, of the Northern and Southern lights . And some of us have seen in person the Auror...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Hambleton gets hammered

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I feel a great affinity for people who have special collections ,* having had one myself, though I have since sadly had to disassemble mos...
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Chris Quigley has been reviewing morbid books since receiving an MA in 2007 from Georgetown University, where she has worked since 1986. As of June 2009, she is on long-term disability leave. She delivered the keynote address at the first Museum of Funeral Customs symposium (Springfield, Illinois), consulted with the producers of the National Geographic Channel’s Mummy Road Show, and authored 6 morbid books of her own - Death Dictionary, The Corpse, Modern Mummies, Skulls and Skeletons, Conjoined Twins, and Dissection on Display - all published by McFarland & Co.
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