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..."

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Monday, March 24, 2014

Varanasi

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This is as close as I could come to an answer for my aide Marva, who asked me where the bodies that float down the Ganges in India end up....

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Percy's pyre

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English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) had a complicated life, but his death was even more so. He drowned off the coast o...

Friday, April 22, 2011

Follow-ups

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Nuremberg Chronicle 4/20/11 Rare original King James Bible found in an English village church. Lincoln's signature found on the wall o...

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Acid alternative

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Sinister associations with multiple murderers John George "Acid Bath" Haigh , Jeffrey Dahmer , and Santiago "Stew Maker"...

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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Follow-ups

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2/1/11 Alpine ibex Follower Priscilla notes, " We never talk about the ones that end up crashing. That would be natural selection i...

Friday, December 31, 2010

Not Santa

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" The silvery locks...were twisted and tied in long attenuated wisps, which hung over his shoulders and mingled with his snowy and pa...

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Follow-ups

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Vivisection 1/22/10 British scientists are blowing up live pigs to study the effects of bombs. A man in Oaklan Park, Florida, performs a ...

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Quigley's Cabinet: 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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