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Looks like Yale University’s most talked-about secret society, the Order of Skull and Bones, isn’t so secret anymore...
Five or six years ago, I fell from the top of one of those loop ramps. I broke my pelvis, fractured my thumb and my skull and got a pretty heavy concussion. That...
...belonged to the author, as its nickname would suggest, it would undoubtedly be a keeper; however, it turns out it belonged to her second husband's second wife, and the university has no idea under what circumstances it was donated. Or what about a giant rhinoceros skull? Is that worth keeping? How about the samples of earth dug up from the English Channel, pre-Chunnel? Hundreds of beautiful hand-drawn lecture slides made by the scientist Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode? Or the slides of microscopic fossils, which don't seem to take up much space until...
...fire-lit cremation ground in Bengal, we see politicians, even communists, coming to a woman regarded as a witch to sacrifice goats in advance of an election. The woman, who lives among jackals in the burning ground, tells us why it's best to drink blood from the skull of a suicide or virgin. As an erudite scholar, Dalrymple gives us a precedent and a context for all this. As a fluent and vivid travel writer, he evokes the landscapes of the land he loves, and bullock carts that "trundle along red dirt roads, past village duck ponds...
Celebrate the Day of the Dead by watching ballet folklorico, taking part in a skull design competition, and enjoying mariachi music...