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Forensic Toxicology – With I. Keränen
As a practicing forensic pathologist in a busy office, I am confronted every week with a stack of toxicology reports from my cases. Most are simple to interpret—the multiple GSW with (inconsequential) trace cocaine; the slam-dunk OD with a needle … Continue reading
Our Fancy – Red Skelton & Vincent Price in “Freddie’s Masterpiece”
Brought to you by Pet Evaporated Milk. First food for babies, first choice of good cooks! And Pet-Ritz frozen pies! Imagine… apple pie like this every time. Yes. Every time! -altered by Hystoria
Posted in Cooking Magic, Entertainment, Our Fancies
Tagged Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Charlie Chaplin Studios, David Rose Orchestra, Desilu Production, Freddie's Masterpiece, Hollywood, Johnson's Wax, Leonardo di Vinci, Pet Evaporated Milk, Pet-Ritz, pies, Procter & Gamble, Red Skelton, Richard Bernard, The Red Skelton Show, variety show, Vincent Price
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Documentary – Guys & Dolls: Men Who Prefer Life-like Dolls Over Real-life Women
In the 2008 movie “Lars and the Real Girl” Ryan Gosling plays a man who introduces a life sized doll as his girlfriend and takes her everywhere, eventually gaining the town’s acceptance. A year before that movie put so-called “real … Continue reading
Posted in Adults, Documentaries, Inventions
Tagged BBC, documentary, Guys and Dolls, Lars and the Real Girl, real dolls, Realdoll, Ryan Gosling
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Public School Grammar – Canada Publishing Company (Limited) 1899
The Public School Grammar textbook issued in the Province of Ontario in the City of Toronto by H. L. Strang, B.A., Principal Goderich Collegiate Institute and published by Canada Publishing Company (Limited) 1899 – front cover to Page 7 … Continue reading
Posted in Linguistics
Tagged Act of Parliament, adjectives, articles, Canada Publishing Company Limited 1899, case, comparison, conjuctive, demonstrative, derivation and composition, English grammar, finite verbs, gender, indefinite, indicative, inflection, interjections, interrogative, language, Linguistics, Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Education, moods, nouns, number, Ontario, passive, peculiar words and classes of words, personal, personification, phrases, pleonasm and ellipses, prepositions, pronouns, Public School Grammar, sentence, sequence and tenses, shall and will, sounds and letters, subject and predicate, the infinite, Toronto, transitive and intransitive, verbs
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The Oxford India Paper Dickens “Our Mutual Friend” – 1920
From Hystoria’s personal library, we present to you, the first pages of the last of 17 Volumes of the Oxford India Paper Dickens, Complete Works “Our Mutual Friend” – 1920 Edition. Illustrations by Cruikshank, ‘Phiz,’ &c. – altered by Hystora
Posted in Literature, Wartime
Tagged 17, 1920 edition, Charles, Our Mutual Friend, The Oxford India Paper Dickens, Volume Seventeen
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Cocaine & The Process of Human Decomposition
The time taken for a body to decompose can vary greatly due to a wide range of factors that can affect the process. Perhaps the most significant factor in the rate of decomposition is temperature and environment. Warmer temperatures will … Continue reading
Posted in Death & Culture, Medical Arts & Science
Tagged body, body farm, cadaver, climate, cocaine, corpse, drugs, elements, insect, Process of Human Decomposition, submerged, temperature
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Great Granny’s Cook Book & Modern Full-colour Printing
The first page of Great Granny’s 1947 copy of The American Woman’s Cook Book illustrates the beginning of modern full-colour printing, modern photoengraving and also speaks of the practice of food irradiation. However, the photos of the delightful, tantalizing Color PLATES weren’t printed in colour. … Continue reading
Vagina Fragrance Beads – Womb Detox
Potpourri is not meant for the vagina and, in fact, can cause adverse effects. If you want to detox your womb, do so by ingesting green tea which is used by many to detox the whole body – not just your … Continue reading
Posted in Adults, Inventions
Tagged adverse reactions, EOS lip balm, Gynecologist, infection, ordor, spa, Vagina Fragrance Beads, vaginal discharge, Womb Detox
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Our Fancy – The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station – 1896
One short film had a particularly lasting impact; yes, it caused fear, terror, even panic. It was the film L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de la Ciotat (Arrival of the Train at La Ciotat Station). Although the cinematographic train … Continue reading
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