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• April 19, 2010 thecolorsrun has been to Plaster Citizens of Pompeii
  

  Plaster Citizens of Pompeii

  Their last minutes captured in plaster

  Those that did not flee the city of Pompeii in August of 79 AD were doomed. Buried for 1700 years under 30 feet of mud and ash and reduced by the centuries to skeletons, they remained entombed... »

  Memento Mori, Disaster Areas, Long Now Locations, Incredible Ruins | Edited by Annetta, Dylan and others

• October 18, 2009 thecolorsrun added The World's Largest Garden Gnome
  

  New York, US

  The World's Largest Garden Gnome

  "Gnome Chomsky" holds the Guinness World Record for Largest Garden Gnome, standing at 13 feet 6 inches

  Artist Maria Reidelbach's 2006/07 project, "Gnome on the Grange", is designed to celebrate the local farming community. The 10-hole mini-golf course is located on 100-acre Kelder's Farm, which in... »

  Strange Statues | Edited by thecolorsrun and A Facebook user

• October 17, 2009 thecolorsrun updated the Wilder Brain Collection subtitle
  

  New York, US

  Wilder Brain Collection

  Brains on display, including that of a murderer

  The whole human brain collection held at Cornell University was accumulated at the end of 19th century and the beginning of the 20th by Dr. Burt Green Wilder. Over 600 human brains were collected,... »

  Medical Museums | Edited by Dylan and thecolorsrun