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In October 2021, a woman in the US state of Arkansas allegedly typed out a simple Facebook message: "Just out of curiosity, would you know anyone in the market for a fully intact, embalmed brain?"The woman was a staffer at Arkansas Central Mortuary Services, and according to prosecutors, the message was sent to an antique dealer in Pennsylvania.A search of his home would later uncover multiple buckets containing human remains, including pieces of brain, heart, livers, skin and lungs.Investigators say the pair were part of an underground community spanning multiple states across the US, made up of both morgue staff...

Russian team of embalmers headed for Pyongyang. Chia Head must be embalmed as well. From Russian NTV: (google translation) Soon the world will be on a "restless dead" is more - for Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung and Mao joins Kim Jong Il. In the capital, Pyongyang, DPRK flew a group of Russian scientists from the Institute of embalmers Mausoleum. Very soon, the list of the "immortals" - Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung and Mao Zedong, add another: the deceased North Korean leader Jong-il Keach prepared to keep forever. At the head of the Russian delegation...

Democrats and liberals have a nightmare vision of the Supreme Court's future: President Obama is defeated for re-election next year and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, at 78 the oldest justice, soon finds her health will not allow her to continue on the bench. The new Republican president appoints Ginsburg's successor, cementing conservative domination of the court, and soon the justices roll back decisions in favor of abortion rights and affirmative action.

WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Pressing his case against an assault on Baghdad, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said on Wednesday the United States had no legitimate reason to attack Iraq and that it would be a grave mistake to do so. "The claim that Iraq is a threat is a complete fraud. I don't think they believe it for a minute," Clark said, referring to the Bush administration's stated grounds for seeking to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Clark, who served in the Johnson administration at the height of the Vietnam war, said it would be "the...

<p>MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- A widower filed a lawsuit claiming his wife was embalmed by a university's mortuary science students without his permission or knowledge.</p> <p>Jeffrey Post claims Lynn University violated his and his wife's Jewish faith because embalming is not allowed under their religion.</p>