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Photo by forrevva.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48721644@N03/4737835118/in/photostream

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The “From Hell” letter is a letter posted in 1888 by a person who claimed to be the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.

From hell

Mr Lusk
Sor
I send you half the Kidne I took from one women prasarved it for you tother piece I fried and ate it was very nise. I may send you the bloody knif that took it out if you only wate a whil longer

signed
Catch me when you Can Mishter Lusk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell_letter

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Mummy from Peru, at the Carmo Convent. The display says it is pre-Columbian but offers little other information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peruvian_mummy.jpg

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Cabinet of Curiosities, or the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. Most of the anatomical collection belonged to Frederik Ruysch, a professor of botany and anatomy. He made a unique collection of anatomy and embryology. In 1717, partial to fancy Peter the Great bought 937 of its member agents. Ruysch, who collected his collection of half a century, has agreed to sell it only to the Russian Tsar. Ruysch believed that this man knows how to appreciate the rarity and able to preserve this extraordinary collection for posterity.

http://urod.at.ua/index/0-13

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