• In January 1803 the anatomist and electrical showman Giovanni Aldini shocked London with a ghoulish experiment.

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  • Ghoulish items up for grabs include rubber gloves, forceps and the hanger used to hold the singer's burial suit.

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  • Despite the seemingly ghoulish material, Ms Horn has clearly embraced a new serenity.

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  • The argument was dismissed as ghoulish at the time, and it still is.

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  • Simple human error, then, not ghoulish interference, was to blame for the loss.

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  • And ratings will continue to play a role in determining banks' capital requirements, as ghoulish a prospect as that may seem.

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  • Critics, though, argue that the potential benefits of using embryos have been overstated, and they have described the new bank as ghoulish.

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  • Summers, who has a distinctive tattoo of a ghoulish face on his right arm, has arrests dating back to 2002, police said.

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  • Instead, this inconsolable spirit makes her feelings known through more ghoulish means.

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  • Highsmith's books are page-turners of the first order, reflecting Highsmith's unsparing vision of human nature that makes her a ghoulish treat for grownups.

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  • By the same token, if a child wants to be a ghost or a ghoul, or Frankenstein, all the traditional ghoulish things are fine.

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  • As ghoulish as this may sound, you can also buy the possessions of a contemporary star in anticipation of higher prices after his or her death.

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  • Lubar says it took more than 125 years to transform objects collected the night of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination from ghoulish peep show to history lesson.

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  • Although it is called Anastasia, the film addles dates, kills off the ghoulish Rasputin by drowning (rather than poison) and advances the plot through a fairytale love story.

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  • The ghouls, goblins and vampires in the form of unregulated CDS contracts, overleveraging, Bernie Madoff, Internet stocks and sub-prime mortgages are sure to rear their ghoulish heads again.

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  • But Dome debris could suffer a fate worse even than ironic derision in trendy London pads as part of the ghoulish trade in disaster memorabilia, circulating illicitly on the Internet.

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  • But the atmosphere is too rich for the pallid plot: Jack Skellington, the bony master of ceremonies in Halloweentown, discovers the spirit of Christmas and tries to import it into his ghoulish world.

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  • Cross St Michan's Church immediately off your list: behind iron doors, a narrow stone staircase descends to its crypt where the ghoulish remains of up to 800-year-old bodies have been preserved by the dry air.

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  • We have, as Mr Spivey reflects, been programmed to pathos, and the other side of that cultural coin may be our ghoulish fascination for the photo-journalism which captures the last wince and wail of every disaster.

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  • Obviously our laws for all this must be changed to protect the people, failing that every means necessary must be employed to dismantle, under cut, cancel efforts that aid and abet any of these possible ghoulish plans.

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  • It had added another surreal dimension to this ghoulish Pacific war: the bimbos debarking from gargantuan transport planes, flashing their teeth and gyrating their groins, then becoming almost instantly airborne again, leaving behind thousands of doomed devils with aching gonads.

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  • Even outside, there are ghoulish touches.

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  • He made a name for himself early on with zombie movie "Dead Alive, " and during the course of a career that has spanned more than two decades, he brought a variety of ghoulish characters to the big screen in the "Rings" films.

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  • Mr. Pattinson, who no doubt wants to escape the ghoulish goldmine that has made him a star, isn't quite in step with the film's agenda: He's a bit too likable, as well as constricted, although those qualities are used by Mr. Cronenberg to the film's advantage.

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  • It is a strange and slightly ghoulish idea, because it means that if a patient tries to flex his missing finger, for example, a muscle in another part of his body (which is now connected to the nerves that used to control the finger) contracts instead.

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  • As we scan the crowd, our gaze is akin to that of the costumed characters on the viewing platform at right, but quickly shifts to eye level as the foreground gives way to some of Ensor's most frightening and crudely painted figures a top-hatted skeleton, a swollen prelate, ghoulish clowns, and grimacing, disembodied masks who threaten to spill into our space.

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