![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/710/jpeg/04t.jpg) Re-creation of a pope lying in state at St. Peter s Basilica flanked by two members of Swiss Guard at "Celebrating Deaths of Popes" exhibit in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/709/jpeg/20t.jpg) Black funeral coach in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/709/jpeg/16t.jpg) Green funeral coach in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/709/jpeg/15t.jpg) Campbell funeral coach in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/709/jpeg/14t.jpg) Buick funeral coach in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/710/jpeg/06t.jpg) La Salle funeral coach in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/709/jpeg/24t.jpg) Victorian era funeral parlor in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/709/jpeg/21t.jpg) Nebraska 1953 funeral coach in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/709/jpeg/25t.jpg) Black Campbell funeral coach in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/709/jpeg/17t.jpg) 1951 Superior-Cadillac Landaulet Hearse (funeral coach) in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/710/jpeg/02t.jpg) 1860 German "Glaswagen" funeral coach and 1850 German hearse made by Burkhardt (Wagenbruer) in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/709/jpeg/19t.jpg) Money Coffin for a gambler(?) in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/709/jpeg/23t.jpg) Model of ancient Egyptian coffin in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/709/jpeg/18t.jpg) Coffin for American presidents on display in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/710/jpeg/05t.jpg) Wooden compartments for coffins in a hearse in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/709/jpeg/22t.jpg) 1921 Rock Falls eight-column carved-panel motorized hearse in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/709/jpeg/26t.jpg) Fantasy coffins from Ghana shaped as objects (fish, canoe, leopard, chicken, bull, crab etc.) representative of the life of the deceased in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/710/jpeg/03t.jpg) Brightly colored wooden coffins from Ghana carved as objects capturing essence of the departed (fishing canoe, chicken, bull, crab etc.) in National Museum of Funeral History. Houston, Texas, February 8, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/618/jpeg/09t.jpg) Death penalty protests on exhibit in Prison Museum. Huntsville, Texas, February 23, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/900/jpeg/10t.jpg) Death row exhibit in Prison Museum. Huntsville, Texas, December 18, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1998/60/jpeg/29t.jpg) Crickets on National Geographic magazines at Museum of Natural History. Washington DC, February 5, 1998.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/900/jpeg/11t.jpg) Recreation exhibit in Prison Museum. Huntsville, Texas, December 18, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/900/jpeg/15t.jpg) Inmate crafts exhibit in Prison Museum. Huntsville, Texas, December 18, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/758/jpeg/05t.jpg) Statue of Three Graces in Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1998/60/jpeg/30t.jpg) Insects show at Museum of Natural History. Washington DC, February 5, 1998.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1998/60/jpeg/19t.jpg) World War II propaganda posters at Museum of American History. Washington DC, February 4, 1998.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/758/jpeg/02t.jpg) Replicas of ancient art in Gallery of History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 10, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1147/jpeg/01t.jpg) Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 7, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1998/60/jpeg/20t.jpg) A portrait of Russian communist leader J. Stalin at Museum of American History. Washington DC, February 4, 1998.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/618/jpeg/04t.jpg) Old Sparky electric chair used for capital punishment of several hundred death row inmates in 1924-1964 in Prison Museum. Huntsville, Texas, February 23, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1147/jpeg/02t.jpg) Sculptures in Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 7, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1147/jpeg/03t.jpg) Marble sculptures in Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, February 7, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1998/60/jpeg/21t.jpg) A bronze likeness of the current American president Bill Clinton at Museum of American History. Washington DC, February 4, 1998.
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2010/900/jpeg/13t.jpg) Texas Prison Rodeo exhibit in Prison Museum. Huntsville, Texas, December 18, 2010
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/12t.jpg) Caterpillar on a leaf in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/14t.jpg) Emerald Swallowtail (Papilio Palinurus) in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/15t.jpg) Close-up of Emerald Swallowtail (Papilio Palinurus) in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/24t.jpg) Blue flower of Lignum Vitae (Gaiac tree, Guaiacum sanctum) in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/21t.jpg) Butterfly head in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/09t.jpg) Speckled butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/06t.jpg) Sitting butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/01t.jpg) Flying Dutchman butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/19t.jpg) Black and red striped butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/16t.jpg) Black and orange butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/13t.jpg) Black and red butterfly on a leaf in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/23t.jpg) Close-up of a black and red butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/03t.jpg) Close-up of a feeding Owl Butterfly (Caligo) in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/05t.jpg) Butterfly on a flower of tropical milkweed in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/10t.jpg) Orange butterfly Dryadula Phaetusa(?) in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/26t.jpg) Red Peacock Butterfly (Anartia amathea) in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/25t.jpg) Black butterfly with white stripes in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/20t.jpg) Close-up of Dryadula Phaetusa(?) butterfly in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/18t.jpg) Rice Paper Butterfly (Idea leuconoe) in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/17t.jpg) Close-up of Red Peacock Butterfly (Anartia amathea) in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/08t.jpg) Butterfly on pink Pentas lanceolata flowers in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/711/jpeg/22t.jpg) Owl Butterfly (Caligo) feeding on a rotten star fruit in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/02t.jpg) Butterfly on Pentas lanceolata (Penta starla) flowers in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/07t.jpg) Owl Butterfly (Caligo) with dramatic eyespots on the underside of the lower wing in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1078/jpeg/12t.jpg) Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1997/34/jpeg/21t.jpg) - Central Park and Museum of Natural History (New York, June 23 - 24 and a trip to Turner Falls, May 28, 1997)
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2007/594/jpeg/13t.jpg) Hall in Kshesinskaya Mansion, now Museum of Political History. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 25, 2007
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/33t.jpg) Wooden staircase in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/34t.jpg) Exhibition hall in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1997/34/jpeg/18t.jpg) - Central Park and Museum of Natural History (New York, June 23 - 24 and a trip to Turner Falls, May 28, 1997)
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1997/34/jpeg/22t.jpg) - Central Park and Museum of Natural History (New York, June 23 - 24 and a trip to Turner Falls, May 28, 1997)
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1997/34/jpeg/23t.jpg) - Central Park and Museum of Natural History (New York, June 23 - 24 and a trip to Turner Falls, May 28, 1997)
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/1997/34/jpeg/19t.jpg) - Central Park and Museum of Natural History (New York, June 23 - 24 and a trip to Turner Falls, May 28, 1997)
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/36t.jpg) Marble stairs in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/38t.jpg) Collection of revolutionary posters in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/28t.jpg) Typical barrack (reconstruction) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/32t.jpg) Old wooden sculpture on a door in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2007/594/jpeg/15t.jpg) Wooden stairs in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 25, 2007
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/30t.jpg) Showcase "Moving to a new flat" in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/712/jpeg/04t.jpg) Blue Wave Butterfly (Myscelia cyaniris) with bands of iridescent blue across the upper wing surface in Cockrell Butterfly Center of Houston Museum of Natural Science. Houston, Texas, February 14, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1252/jpeg/16t.jpg) A marble sculpture of three women in Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Petersburg, Russia, September 3, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1078/jpeg/14t.jpg) Marble sculpture in a gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/37t.jpg) Lenin s Cabinet (workroom), reconstruction, in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/31t.jpg) Typological complex "Boyler s House" in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/22t.jpg) Boiler-room (Kotelnaya) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/35t.jpg) Reconstruction of security police office in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/23t.jpg) Soviet office (Kabinet) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/21t.jpg) Soviet kitchen (Kukhnia) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/27t.jpg) Decoration of a wooden door in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2007/594/jpeg/16t.jpg) Reconstruction of Stalin style office in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 25, 2007
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/29t.jpg) Common kitchen of a communal flat (reconstruction) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2007/594/jpeg/17t.jpg) Reconstruction of Soviet style kitchen in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 25, 2007
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/26t.jpg) Stained glass with monument of Peter the Great in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1078/jpeg/13t.jpg) Marble statue of a woman with a skull in a gallery of the History of Ancient Painting in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 17, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/755/jpeg/01t.jpg) Symbols of death on a tomb in Necropolis of Alexander Nevsky Lavra (Lazarevskoe Cemetery). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 3, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1289/jpeg/20t.jpg) Death cap like Amanita mushrooms on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2681/jpeg/22t.jpg) Death cap mushrooms (Amanita sect. Phalloideae) on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, April 6, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2007/594/jpeg/14t.jpg) Reconstruction of Soviet style boiler-room (kotelnaya) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 25, 2007
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2389/jpeg/30t.jpg) Death cap mushroom (Amanita sect. Phalloideae) in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, October 28, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2004/413/jpeg/19t.jpg) An exposition in Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard University. Boston, Massachusetts, September 22, 2004
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2515/jpeg/39t.jpg) Caricature rubber sculpture of a head of the first Russian president Boris Yeltsin in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2011/969/jpeg/25t.jpg) Leather coat of a communist spy Richard Sorge (Germany, 1930s) in Museum of Political History (Kshesinskaya Mansion). Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 24, 2011
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2389/jpeg/32t.jpg) Dissected death cap mushroom (Amanita sect. Phalloideae) in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, October 28, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/759/jpeg/09t.jpg) Iron funeral gates (1808 - 1809) in a forest near Mausoleum "To kind spouse" in Pavlovsk Park. Pavlovsk, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 11, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2389/jpeg/31t.jpg) Side view of a death cap mushroom (Amanita sect. Phalloideae) in Big Creek Scenic Area of Sam Houston National Forest. Shepherd, Texas, October 28, 2018
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