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6 days ago · Death masks are wax or plaster casts made of a person’s face after death. The McComas Collection (1955-2013), in the McDaniel College Archives, contains life and death masks of 66 famous and infamous persons, as well as other paper manuscript materials relating to the collection.
- Gwenlyn Coddington
- 2020
4 days ago · Medical masks have a long history from the plagues of medieval Europe to nineteenth century outbreaks of cholera in the United States, but when did they start to be commonly used? That’s my quiz...
1 day ago · Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Mask of the Red Death” is a spooky tale full of deep meaning about life and death. Published way back in 1842, it tells the story of Prince Prospero, who tries to dodge a deadly plague called the Red Death by hiding away in a fancy abbey with his buddies.
5 days ago · Eminem drops most devastating track ever on new album leaving fans ‘in tears’. Eminem has officially unveiled The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace), and he’s left fans in tears after a ...
1 day ago · The Death Mask Helm is a piece of DLC Armor added to Elden Ring by the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC. You can get the Desk Mask Helm by defeating the elder Fire Knight, Wego, who is found surrounded ...
4 days ago · The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand [a] was one of the key events that led to World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip.
3 days ago · Black Death, pandemic that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time. The Black Death is widely thought to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
