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Barbara Narendra <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 23 Jul 1994 12:37:48 EST
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On Fri, 22 Jul 1994 11:15:19 -0700,
Jim Haynes  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
>>something lately about Napoleon's private parts in a jar? (How's that for
>>weird and bizarre information?!)
>>
>>Anita Cohen-Williams; Reference Services; Hayden Library
>>Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ  85287-1006
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>There was something lately about the Australian-born composer Percy Grainger;
>believe the museum in question is at his birthplace.  He became a U.S.
>citizen, much of his music was inspired by English material, and it's said
>that he had a number of sexual er, eccentricities.
 
 
Napoleon's private part is owned by a New York doctor (there was
an article on him and his eclectic collection in the NY Times on
July 9);  the Percy Grainger Museum is at the University of Melbourne (from
a Museum-L posting back in April).
 
The once-glorious Warren Anatomical Museum at the Harvard Medical School
(see Harvard Magazine, July-Aug. 1987) still has the skull of Phineas
Gage and the iron bar that was driven through his head by an explosion in
1848.  Mr. Gage's subsequent personality changes are discussed in
the May 20, 1994 issue of Science.
Barbara Narendra
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