Nevermore.

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A hollow book used as a secret poison cabinet, 17th century.

GABINETE SECRETO DE VENENO DEL SIGLO XVII

En 2008 apareció en la casa de subastas Hermann Histórica en Alemania; se trata de un libro que se ahuecó y al que se le instalaron once pequeños cajones en el interior, así como un pequeño frasco de vidrio verde. Cada cajón de fina madera, posee una perilla de plata y una etiqueta escrita a mano con los nombres en latín de distintas plantas venenosas. La botella verdosa tiene la inscripción “Statutum est hominibus semel mori" (“Es un hecho que el hombre debe morir algún día"). Pegado al interior de la cubierta, se encuentra un antiguo grabado de un esqueleto en pie con la fecha 1682, que es una copia de “De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem”, un texto anatómico de Andreas Vesalius publicado por primera vez en 1543. Se cree que la copia proviene de una impresión posterior en Londres de 1682.

Para saber más: https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/herbs-kill-or-heal-was-17th-century-faux-book-poisoner-or-apothecary-021284

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Sabrina Salerno

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Jane Mansfield and her daughter Jayne Marie Mansfield  (b.1950) at the Hollywood Christmas Parade, Los Angeles, 1958.

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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) dir. Frank Tashlin

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Jayne Mansfield poses on a couch on the set of the television show "The Bachelor" (1950s)

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Love that girl! ♥

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Bettie Page

Marilyn Monroe

Jane Mansfield

Anita Ekberg

Elizabeth Taylor

Barbara Eden

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"For movie-buffs, the next best thing to a good movie (of which there are pitifully few these days) is the chance to sink their teeth into some juicy related reading. Atop the current heap is Kenneth Anger's HOLLYWOOD BABYLON, a chronicle of many of the sordid tales and scandals that rocked Glittertown-and the nation-from the Virginia Rappe murder to Judy Garland's death. Brimming with detail and decadence, Anger leaves few headstones unturned in unearthing the real stories behind the headlines that had Photoplay readers breathless with shock and macabre enthrallment. HOLLYWOOD BABYLON will have so many people spinning in their graves that the vibes might well touch off the menacing San Andreas fault to produce a fitting and inevitable postscript to the Twentieth Century Babylon known as Hollywood....

This book is a gossip gourmet's delight as the snarky innuendoes vie with the stark facts in competing for the reader's rapt attention...

HOLLYWOOD BABYLON stands as more than merely 'revealing.' It's a revelation."

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🎥 1957: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? stars Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, Mickey Hargitay and Joan Blondell.

• Rock Hunter (Randall) writes television commercials, and he's hatched a strategy for a new beauty product. Needing a famous face to deliver his message, Rock tries to recruit actress Rita Marlowe (Mansfield). At first, she thinks it's beneath her, but she wants to make her actor lover (Hargitay) envious, so she agrees, as long as Rock pretends to be her boyfriend. Soon, Rock is running the ad company, but his ascension is greeted by all kinds of personal troubles. (20th Century Fox)

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