In celebration of International Women's Day, Google has unveiled a new doodle that inspires women and honors their achievements. But instead of using animated characters, the tech giant opted to travel to 13 different cities across the globe and asked a diverse group of females to finish the sentence "One day, I will . . . " Some of them are prominent figures: Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, anthropologist Jane Goodall, and activist Muzoon Almellehan. But most are everyday girls and women with big dreams and aspirations.
The idea of preserving tattoos after death came into existence long before NAPSA . London's Wellcome Collection has over 300 specimens of preserved human flesh bearing tattoos , collected in the late 19th century. There are many more examples of smaller collections in Paris, Poland, Portugal, Berlin, and Austria. But what fascinates me the most is this lesser-known museum at Tokyo University, the Medical Pathology Museum, which houses pieces of skin collected since 1926 by Dr. Masaichi Fukushi. "Fukushi would perform autopsies on donated cadavers and dissect off just the skin. He created a method of treatment to preserve the skin and kept them stretched in a glass frame, essentially like a leather. Later the ownership of the tattooed skin collection was passed on to Fukushi's son Katsunari. Katsunari added a further 20 tattooed skins himself and it's believed that the Medical Pathology Museum has 105 in its collection, many with full body suits." ...
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