The Most Kissed Lips

L’Inconnue de la Seine or unknown woman of the Seine plaster death maskL’Inconnue de la Seine (or “the unknown woman of the Seine”) was an unidentified young woman pulled from the Seine River at the Quai du Louvre in Paris in the late 1880s whose death mask became a popular fixture on the walls of artists’ homes after 1900. Her body showed no signs of violence, so suicide was suspected.

A pathologist at the Paris morgue was so taken by her beauty that he had a plaster death mask cast from her face. In the following years, many copies were produced, and the mask became a fixture in the Parisian Bohemian society. Her smile was compared to that of the Mona Lisa. Her identity was never discovered.

The original cast had been photographed, and eventually new casts were created from the film negatives which displayed details usually lost in bodies taken from the water.

L’Inconnue de la Seine became the erotic ideal in Germany, where an entire generation of girls modeled their looks after her until Greta Garbo came around.

The Resusci Anne CPR training mannequin came into use in 1960 in numerous first aid classes with a face molded from the death mask of L’Inconnue de la Seine, so they have come to be known as the most kissed lips.

Burlesque Queen Miss Zorita Walking Her Snake

1940s burlesque queen Miss Zorita walking her snake

Miss Zorita began performing at stag parties at the age of fifteen and eventually became a famous burlesque queen. Her routines often included the use of snakes, and her most remembered was called “the consummation of the wedding of the snake.”

X-Ray Pin-up Calendar Photos

Pin-up models truly bare all in this first-ever pin-up calendar for the medical profession, where EVERY detail is revealed in x-ray.

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More Cannibalism in the News

The bizarre cannibal attacks last month were not the end of what is surely a zombie apocalypse on the rise. Two new cases have come to light that are equally disturbing.

Homeless Woman Grabs Baby, Tires to Eat Arm

On July 21st, 2011 a homeless woman in downtown Los Angeles unbuckled a 4-month-old baby boy from a stroller and pulled him out by the leg, swinging him overhead before slamming him into a rail. The mother and her sister managed to fight the homeless woman off, who was eventually identified as Natasha Hubbard and arrested.

In an interview with detectives, Hubbard confirmed she tried to break the baby’s arm off to eat it.

Professor Cuts Off, Eats Adulterous Wife’s Lips

A professor in Sweden, suspecting his young wife was having an affair, decided to punish her by disfiguring her in a fit of jealousy. He cut off her lips and then ate them to make sure they could not be sewn back on.

Sounds like a pretty effective method to me.