BOWERS MUSEUM HOSTS MUMMIES OF THE WORLD EXHIBIT... SEE YOUR GREAT GRANNY HERE!

BOWERS MUSEUM - MUMMIES OF THE WORLD THROUGH SEPTEMBER 5 2016
March 19, 2016 - September 5, 2016

Inside every mummy is a story waiting to be told.

Mummies of the World portrays a once-in-a-lifetime collection of real mummies and artifacts from across the globe. This compelling collection, presented with reverence and dignity, includes ancient mummies dating back as far as 4,500 years.

SANTA ANA HOSPITAL SCANS HUNGARIAN MUMMY MOM and BABY TO FIND OUT HOW THEY DIED

ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER - HUNGARIAN MUMMIES IN CAT SCAN  Great Photo!
There are genealogy records of the 350 people who were buried near the church where they were entombed, and theoretically anyway, it could be YOUR great great great great great grandma that they're scanning!

EXCERPTS from article by ANTONIE BOESSENKOOL 

Johannes Orlovits and a mother named Veronica Skripetz,are on loan from the Hungarian Natural History Museum, underwent CT scans at OC Global Medical Center in Santa Ana Monday. Ildiko Szikossy, left, from the Hungarian Natural History Museum places the baby after the scan. They are part of the Mummies of the World exhibit at Bowers Museum and date from the 1800s. Researchers are hoping to discover more about how these two people lived and died from the CT scan. ...

“We never really know what we’re going to find. We’re kind of unwrapping a surprise package,” Sutherland said. Skripetz appeared to have died from tuberculosis, but Sutherland said the CT findings may be able to confirm that.

In a CT, or computerized tomography, scan, a computer combines multiple X-ray images into cross-section views to create 3D images of a body. Along with other tools such as written records and standard X-rays, mummy experts use CT scans to learn about diseases, injuries, causes of death and lifestyles without having to cut open or damage mummified bodies.

“It’s also a surprise for us, what we can find out,” said Ildiko Szikossy, director of anthropology at the Hungarian Natural History Museum and an expert on the Vác mummies. “Using these scientific techniques, we can press them to tell us their life, their history.”

The bodies of Skripetz and her baby, with their dried, papery skin and old-fashioned clothes, made for a stark contrast with the modern machine at Orange County Global Medical Center. Szikossy and Katy Hess, associate registrar at the Bowers Museum, together carefully lifted Skripetz’s body onto the CT scan table. As the body moved slowly through the scanner’s aperture, cross-section images began to appear on the computer screen in an adjoining viewing room, as Dr. Maurice Yu, director of radiology for the hospital; Michelle McLaughlin, CT supervisor for the hospital; and Sutherland looked on.

What’s already known is that Skripetz had a life touched with death. Her son Johannes died at less than 1 year old, and he was the last of her three children, none of whom lived to age 3. After her husband, Michael Orlovits, a miller, died at 41 years old, Skripetz was a widow at 36. She remarried, but died shortly after, at age 38, in 1807 or ’08.

“The child mortality was very high ...” Szikossy said. “We can tell that yes, it’s very sad.”

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PURPLE AND WHITE LILACS in a GREEN VASE ; SYRINGA JOSIKAEA

My search for Hungarian Lilacs turned up information that the plants bloom about 2 weeks after the Lilacs bloom in France.  How about this link BACKYARD GARDENER - HUNGARIAN LILACS for more information?

HUNGARIAN MUMMIES - COLON RECTAL CANCER MAY NOT BE CAUSED BY MODERN HABITS - GENE MUTATION

When I do my genealogy research, knowing that I may never even see a photo or  portrait or drawing of an ancestor, I ask myself, if, given the chance, I would care to see them as a mummy.  I think I'd be too squeamish...

The Hungarian Mummies that scientists have been studying to learn more about TB are now studying the same Mummies and are thinking that Colon-Rectal Cancer may not be caused by modern habits.

SCIENCE DAILY - COLON CANCER IN HUNGARIAN MUMMIES  sourced from American Friends of Tel Aviv University

EXCERPTS:

In 1995, more than 265 mummies were excavated from sealed crypts in the Dominican church in Vác, Hungary. These crypts were used continuously from 1731 to 1838 for the burial of middle-class families and clerics and provided ideal conditions for the natural mummification of corpses -- low temperatures, constant ventilation and low humidity. Some 70% of the bodies found had been completely or partially mummified.

The preservation of the tissue samples and abundant archival information about the individuals buried in the crypts attracted researchers from around the world, all of whom where interested in conducting their own morphological and genetic studies of the human remains.

"Colorectal cancer is among the most common health hazards of modern times," Dr. Rosin-Arbesfeld explains. "And it has a proven genetic background. We wanted to discover whether people in the past carried the APC mutation -- how common it was, and whether it was the same mutation known to us today. In other words: Is the increase in the incidence of cancer the result of man's manipulation of nature alone?

HUNGARY AND REFUGEES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST

REUTERS - EUROPE MIGRANTS HUNGARIAN REFERENDUM full article

EXCERPT:

Prime Minister Viktor Orban has taken an increasingly anti-immigrant stance since the migration crisis escalated last year and opposes a plan, agreed by a majority of EU governments in September, to redistribute 160,000 migrants around the bloc.

Along with Slovakia, Hungary has launched a court challenge against that plan, which will set quotas for each EU country to host a share of the migrants over two years.

DAILY MAIL - HUNGARIAN OUTRAGE AT EUROPEAN UNION REFUGEE PROBLEM


EXCERPT: 

States could refuse to take people for a year - but only if they paid another country 250,000 euros per person to accommodate them.

 

But at a meeting in Prague, ministers from Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic all repeated their opposition to the idea of relocation. 

'It's blackmail, it's unacceptable and a non-European type of proposal from the (European) Commission,' Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said after a meeting with his counterparts from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland in Prague.

'The quota concept is a dead-end street and I would like to ask the Commission not to run into this dead-end street anymore.' 

 

Poland's Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski echoed Szijjarto, saying: 'I'm still wondering if it's a serious proposal, because it sounds like an idea announced on April Fool's Day.'

  

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 In earlier posts I used the example of being an individual who is giving to some friends who have less than me and feeling the difference between the ones who find a way to give back and those who may say Thank You but don't.

 

I will tell you the equivalent of what is happening here is the United States of America, especially in Southern California where we have 50,000 homeless (or more) and there is, first of all, no affordable housing.  Without a stable residence it is near impossible to hold a job. Yet we keep not addressing this problem of poverty among citizens and keep taking in new immigrants.  Granted some of these new immigrants have wealth they bring with them or can prove that their educations and employment history make them valuable to us, because there are not enough Americans available with equal offerings.  That means that there are many people from India coming in with advanced degrees in computer-related fields, scientists and doctors are always welcome.

Still, I would never think to show up in a foreign country and expect the people there to immediately accept me and support me.  THAT'S WHY LEGAL IMMIGRATION EXISTS, so that a country can access it's needs as well as how many people it can accommodate before people show up!

EDVIN MARTON - MALIBU SUNSET