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 geography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geography. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Rare earths

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Like warnings about the world's dwindling supply of helium , essential for operating MRI machines, news about the limited sources of r...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Mind your teeth

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I found this photograph, which appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic , a bit difficult to research. The caption makes clear t...
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Friday, November 27, 2009

Place name changes

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I heard something on the news the other day about Mumbai, India, and became curious about when and why the name of the city changed from Bom...
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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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