Sentence examples for preserved corpse from inspiring English sources

The palace also is a quirky complement to Hanoi's prominent tourist attractions, like the Temple of Literature, the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum and a mausoleum with the carefully preserved corpse of President Ho Chi Minh.

For 60 years Emily preserves her husband's memory and sacrifices her own dreams as she stoically continues to await his return – only to face the eventual discovery in the Arctic of his frozen, preserved corpse.

Yep, a marsh preserved corpse.

All these memories remind me that recently I visited the salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria and followed what is called 'the trail of the man in salt.' The story revolves around the discovery by three miners in April 1734 of an astonishingly well preserved corpse of a man believed to be the victim of a mining accident around 1000 BC.

PARIS — Gunther von Hagens says he is dying, and he wants to put his preserved corpse on display as part of his popular "Body Worlds" exhibitions.

These transcripts, which are reviewed and corrected by editors, will eventually be used for printed editions of the collected works of Bentham, whose preserved corpse, clothed and seated, has greeted visitors to the college since 1850.

Vincent Price fills up the lavish sets as the museum owner so obsessed with revenge and perfection that only preserved corpses can furnish his ghastly vision.

Besides, Watt could think of no better way to celebrate the lives of 11 fine specimens of dead British wildlife than ensuring that rather than being left to rot, their perfectly preserved corpses, stuffed by a master taxidermist from Doncaster, would be "forever cherished" by the buyers of what was without doubt the most expensive beer in the world.

Newcastle has had less success in capturing the imagination, with the ticky-tacky Centre for Life – currently drumming up visitors with the tasteless, two-decades-old Body Worlds exhibition of preserved corpses – and the Blue Carpet, an over-budget, not-on-time public space by Thomas Heatherwick, whose blue glass surface was supposed to last a century but now looks very grey.

Early techniques were sometimes primitive: in 1898, an article in the Journal of Medicine and Science complained that the arsenic used to preserve corpses had leached into the soil and the groundwater near cemeteries.

She found that ancient Babylonians used honey to preserve corpses, that bees were effectively used as military weapons by the Viet Cong, and that beekeepers in a remote corner of Pakistan use the same kind of hives found in excavations of ancient Greece.