Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more unusual things Michael has done was to bid for the skull of John Merrick, the Elephant Man. After his first offer of $500,000 was denied by the museum where Merrick's head rests, he raised his offer to $1 million, then to $1.5 million...
...wonder if Michael Jackson is a fan of the poet Lord Byron, who used to use the skull of a dead friend as his drinking container. Byron also wanted the skull of the poet Percy Shelley after Shelley drowned, but couldn't get it. Come on Michael, I'm sure there are stores in your neighborhood that sell other types of drinking containers. I'm sure they're cheaper...
Bill Henning, a member of Yale's all-male Skull and Bones society, said one of the reasons Scroll and Key may have decided to accept women was that they were the most vulnerable to a lawsuit and that it will have little influence on the remaining all-male societies...
Chinn said the societies' alumni are reluctant to accept women partly because they fear going co-ed will hurt networking at the societies. But she said another society, Skull and Bones, was also thinking of going...
...Captain Midlife has never got it into his thick if frangible skull that his life is exactly where it is, consisting of a loving wife, three loving children and a loving dog, which, while no Westie, has much fine oddness to recommend it. Well, sometimes he understands this, and sometimes he does not. When he does not, his mind packs up its belongings and sets sail like Ulysses (the very first Captain Midlife), hopping from port to port, dreaming up a storm. The Captain knows too well what the voyage of Ulysses was all about. Circe gives the old come...