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Casquette girl. Contemporary engraving depicting the departure of "comfort girls" to the New World. A casquette girl ( French: fille à la cassette) but also known historically as a casket girl or a Pelican girl, [1] was a woman brought from France to the French colonies of Louisiana to marry. [2] [3] The name derives from the small chests ...
Replica of the "good ship" Jeanie Johnston, which sailed during the Great Hunger when coffin ships were common. No one ever died on the Jeanie Johnson. A coffin ship ( Irish: long cónra) is a popular idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced by the Highland Clearances.
Burial vault (enclosure) A burial vault (also known as a burial liner, grave vault, and grave liner) is a container, formerly made of wood or brick but more often today made of metal or concrete, that encloses a coffin to help prevent a grave from sinking. Wooden coffins (or caskets) decompose, and often the weight of earth on top of the coffin ...
Last year, the body of an unknown little girl was discovered in a lead and bronze casket beneath a San Francisco home. Her body was perfectly preserved, with her hands clutching a single rose. Now ...
Jacopo Raule/Getty Images. Juliette Binoche, 59. Bootcut and flared denim is having a comeback. But for those who want to ensure they still look polished and modern (and less like a ‘70s ...
Jennifer's Body is a 2009 American comedy horror film written by Diablo Cody and directed by Karyn Kusama.Starring Megan Fox in the titular role, and Amanda Seyfried, alongside Johnny Simmons, J. K. Simmons, Amy Sedaris, and Adam Brody in supporting roles, the film follows a high school student, demonically possessed following a sacrifice, who kills her male classmates and devours their flesh ...
Luckily, the 65-year-old makeup artist shared her top beauty tips for creating a flawless makeup look on mature skin. And, of course, the products from her collection that she swears by to get the ...
Roman funerary art. Marble cinerary chest (90–110 AD), made by Marcus Domitius Primigenius "for himself, his freedmen and freedwomen, and their descendants": the deceased makes an offering to a reclining female figure who may be Mother Earth, with two attendants holding food and wine ( Metropolitan Museum of Art) [1] The funerary art of ...