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...strong force called the Commission for the Protection of Virtue and the Suppression of Vice. Back at the commission's local headquarters, events took a tragic turn: al-Huraisi died in custody, after allegedly being beaten. According to family lawyer Maher Al-Hamizi, the autopsy report said his skull was split open and an eye dislodged from its socket. Speaking to Time, the dead man's father, Mohammed al-Huraisi, a 73-year-old retired messenger, called for justice for the three commission members who he claims murdered his son. "I knew my son was dead due to the merciless...
...rush job, and an end hardly befitting one of Germany's greatest poets. In 1826, in an effort to give Schiller his due, the mass burial site was reopened, but by then the body had decomposed beyond recognition. Determining which among 23 recovered skulls was Schiller's became an act of divination: the mayor of Weimar simply deemed the biggest one to be that of the cerebral poet. Schiller's friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe later took the memento mori home to muse upon; he even wrote a reverential poem entitled Lines on Seeing Schiller's Skull. Since 1827, this...
...good mayor's ad hoc phrenology correct? Or was Schiller's fertile brain actually housed in another skull dug up almost a century later? Scientists from the Friedrich Schiller Code research project are now determined to find out. They will compare dna taken from the two skulls with dna from the skeleton of Schiller's second son, Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm, who was exhumed in Bonn on July 19. "Ultimately, this will show us whether one of the skulls is Schiller's - or whether neither of them is," says Freiburg anthropologist Ursula Wittwer-Backofen, one of the chief Code researchers...
There are ample grounds to wonder. The genuineness of the skull so cherished by Goethe was first questioned in 1883, when an anatomist named Hermann Welcker claimed it didn't jibe with Schiller's death mask. Some 30 years later, in 1911, the mass gravesite was searched again, turning up 63 additional skulls. Another anatomist, August von Froriep, declared one of them to be Schiller's, and in 1914, it too was placed in the ducal vault...
...hundred meters from their school in Yala; the four assailants then doused the bodies with gasoline and set them alight. In January, a kindergarten teacher died after eight months in a coma; she had been dragged from her class in Narathiwat by a Muslim mob and beaten until her skull shattered. And more than 300 government schools in Narathiwat were temporarily closed after insurgents killed three teachers last month. Two were women, shot dead in the school library by two gunmen while a hundred horrified children looked...