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  2. Margaret Keane - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.keane-eyes.com. Margaret D. H. Keane (born Peggy Doris Hawkins, September 15, 1927 – June 26, 2022) [1] was an American artist known for her paintings of subjects with big eyes. She mainly painted women, children, or animals in oil or mixed media. The work achieved commercial success through inexpensive reproductions on prints ...

  3. Chase Vault - Wikipedia

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    Chase Vault. The Chase Vault is a burial vault in the cemetery of the Christ Church Parish Church in Oistins, Christ Church, Barbados, best known for a widespread urban legend of "mysterious moving coffins ". According to the story, each time the heavily sealed marble vault had been opened for the burial of a family member including 1808, twice ...

  4. Fayum mummy portraits - Wikipedia

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    Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt. They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. The Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to ...

  5. Big Eyes - Wikipedia

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    Big Eyes is a 2014 American biographical drama film directed by Tim Burton, written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, and starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz.It is about the relationship between American artist Margaret Keane and her second husband, Walter Keane, who, in the 1950s and 1960s, took credit for Margaret's phenomenally popular paintings of people with big eyes.

  6. Marilyn Monroe was unrecognizable at the time of her death - AOL

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    Marilyn Monroe is iconic for her blonde curls, red lips, and perfect beauty mark, but the star was shockingly unrecognizable at the time of her death. According to the two morticians, who prepared ...

  7. Casquette girl - Wikipedia

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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, known ...

  8. Ancient Egyptian funerary practices - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Egyptians had an elaborate set of funerary practices that they believed were necessary to ensure their immortality after death. These rituals included mummifying the body, casting magic spells, and burials with specific grave goods thought to be needed in the afterlife. [1][2] The ancient burial process evolved over time as old ...

  9. List of Monogram Pictures and Allied Artists Pictures films ...

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    This is a list of feature films originally released and/or distributed by Monogram Pictures and Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. Monogram/Allied Artists' post-August 1946 library is currently owned by Warner Bros. (via Lorimar Motion Pictures), while 187 pre-August 1946 Monogram films are owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (via United Artists) and select post-1938 Monogram films are owned by ...