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  • housewares Charming broccoli skull ornament Rob Beschizza
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  • music Remembering Johnny Cash on the day he died Xeni Jardin
  • books The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses Xeni Jardin
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    History "STOP – DEATH – STOP" a gloriously excessive 1930s railroad crossing signal Ellsworth Toohey
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    art history Why this husband commissioned a sculpture of his wife's rotting body Mark Frauenfelder
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    politics Man in custody after allegedly damaging Charlie Kirk memorial at Turning Point USA headquarters in Phoenix Jennifer Sandlin
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  • mementos mori This 550-year-old death's head ring says, "Behold the End" Mark Frauenfelder
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  • astrophotography During the Victorian era, people would photograph their deceased loved ones Popkin
  • oceans Stunning underwater scenes drawn by hand in an 1860s submersible David Pescovitz
  • skulls Can you keep a dead loved one's skull and/or tattoos? Andrea James
  • short stories Listen to this reading of "Memento Mori" the short story that was the basis for the film Memento Mark Frauenfelder
  • halloween Will your Purification Grave be ready by Halloween? John Struan
  • biographies Edward Gorey's macabre tarot deck from 1966 Mark Dery
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    Nixon Let's deconstruct Nixon's "Resignation Lunch," shall we? Mark Dery

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