This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

before it was sprawled the mangled corpse of the bearded stranger.

The corpse was on a table, covered by a sheet.

After Agrippina's death, Nero viewed her corpse and commented how beautiful she was, according to some.

Despite the legend of his divorce and remarriage, Amram was also held to have been entirely sinless throughout his life, and was rewarded for this by his corpse remaining without any signs of decay.

When the hermits were gathered to Saint Anthony's corpse to mourn his death, Saint Anthony was revived.

The most effective means of preventing the return of the dead was believed to be the corpse door.

A special door was built, through which the corpse was carried feet-first with people surrounding it so the corpse couldn't see where it was going.

This concept was to be complicated by the fact that the corpse had begun to putrefy.

Nanna, the wife of Baldr ( whose heart burst upon seeing the corpse of Baldr and was placed upon the pyre with Baldr ), gives gifts to Hermóðr to return to Asgard with.

Once in the arena morgue, the corpse would have been stripped of armour, and probably had its throat cut to prove that dead was dead.

After his death his corpse was removed to the village of Thodanum ( T ' ordan-modern Doğanköy, near Erzincan ).

His corpse was then transported by friends to the First Cemetery in Athens.

There is no evidence that Julian's corpse was skinned and displayed, and it is likely that the illustrator simply confused the fate of Julian's body with that of Emperor Valerian ( emperor ) | Valerian.

) His corpse was taken, after a short stay at the Basilica of Saint Dominic in Bologna, to the French royal necropolis at Saint-Denis, resting in Lyon on the way.

Labs and notes that the corpse was altered postmortem to make it resemble Lex Luthor.

Romano's bullet-riddled corpse was left at his bound comrades ' feet as a warning.

* Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, was killed of wounds suffered at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, his corpse was beheaded, castrated and quartered by the knights of King Henry III of England.

Marat's body had to be periodically sprinkled with water and vinegar as the public crowded to see his corpse prior to the funeral on June 15 and 16.

Another version of the legend says that she died at age 16 of exhaustion after swimming far into the ocean trying to find her lost father and that her corpse later washed ashore on Nankan Island of the Matsu Islands.

His corpse was found near Riano, 20 miles from Rome, on 16 August 1924, after an extensive search.

In May 2005, a corpse flower species Amorphophallus titanum bloomed, attracting more than 16, 000 visitors.

Below the corpse was a small pit holding the remains of six dogs, and along the edge lay the skeletons of 16 human slaves, evidence of human sacrifice.

However, the most stand-out trait is their use of corpse paint – black and white makeup ( sometimes mixed with real or fake blood ), which is used to create a corpse-like appearance.

* 1947 – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short (" The Black Dahlia ") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles.

* 1895 – Eulmi incident-Queen Min of Joseon, the last empress of Korea, is assassinated and her corpse burnt by the Japanese in Gyeongbok Palace.

* Jacopo Bonfadio ( 1508 – 1550 ) was beheaded for sodomy and then his corpse was burned at the stake for heresy.

Confirming his continued support of the anti-Formosus faction, Sergius honoured the murdered Pope Stephen VI ( 896 – 897 ), who had been responsible for the " Cadaver Synod " that had condemned and mutilated the corpse of Pope Formosus, writing a laudatory epitaph on Stephen VI's tombstone.

In other stories, the universe is created by crafting it from pre-existing materials, such as the corpse of a dead god — as from Tiamat in the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish or from the giant Ymir in Norse mythology – or from chaotic materials, as in Izanagi and Izanami in Japanese mythology.

* May 9 – In Rome, the corpse of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro is found in a red Renault 4.

On the afternoon and evening of January 21, Commissioner Soete and his brother dug up Lumumba's corpse for the second time, cut it up with a hacksaw, and dissolved it in concentrated sulfuric acid ( de Witte 2002: 140 – 143 ).

* Lesser corpse flies – Sphaeroceridae

* Kokh – a rectangular rock-cut sloping space, running inward, like tunnels into rock, sufficiently high and wide to permit the admission of a corpse

For example, in Ionesco's Amédée, or How to Get Rid of It, a couple must deal with a corpse that is steadily growing larger and larger ; Ionesco never fully reveals the identity of the corpse, how this person died, or why it's continually growing, but the corpse ultimately – and, again, without explanation – floats away.

That river's spirits reject it too, and the body is driven east into " Losania ", where it is plunged in the bay of the lake near Lucerne, near Mont Pilatus – originally Mons Pileatus or " cloud-capped ", as John Ruskin pointed out in Modern Painters — whence the uncorrupting corpse rises every Good Friday to sit on the bank and wash unavailing hands.

Another act of World War II – era disinformation was Operation Mincemeat, where British intelligence dressed up a corpse, equipped it with fake invasion plans, and floated it out to sea where Axis troops would eventually recover it.

It was noted as being a rare opportunity to see the play on its own and was well received – particularly for its staging of the conclusion, in which Henry's corpse remained onstage, doused in a steady rain of blood, throughout Edward IV's final scene, after which a naked and feral Richard bolts onstage and delivers the opening lines of Richard III, before literally eating the throne.

The young Géricault had painted copies of work by Pierre-Paul Prud ' hon ( 1758 – 1823 ), whose " thunderously tragic pictures " include his masterpiece, Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime, where oppressive darkness and the compositional base of a naked, sprawled corpse obviously influenced Géricault's painting.

The ‘ corpse within its grave ’ ( l. 8 ) in the next line is in contrast to the ‘ azure sister of the Spring ’ ( l. 9 ) – a reference to the east wind – whose ‘ living hues and odours ’ ( l. 12 ) evoke a strong contrast to the colors of the fourth line of the poem that evoke death.

263 – 72 Radt ; 242 – 59 Mette ) almost certainly corresponded with Book 24 of the Iliad: Achilles ' defilement of Hector's corpse and his eventually agreeing to ransom the body back to the grieving father, Priam.

In March 1821, he graduated from high school in Grenoble, and in October, at age 18, Berlioz was sent to Paris to study medicine, a field for which he had no interest and, later, outright disgust after viewing a human corpse being dissected.

In order to purify a person who has become ritually contaminated by contact with a corpse, water from the vessel is sprinkled on him, using a bunch of hyssop, on the third and seventh day of the purification process ( Numbers 19: 18 – 19 ).

A committee of experts, two physicians and one surgeon, declared the corpse was of a girl 18 to 20 years of age who had met with her death eight or ten days before.