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	Body Count in Baghdad Nearly Triples - washingtonpost.com
		After the Samarra bombing, morgue officials brought in refrigerated trucks to hold corpses and crammed refrigerators in the morgue far beyond their intended capacity.
		Most of the corpses taken to Baghdad's morgue are unidentified and are held for long periods awaiting identification.
		Morgue officials also intend to double the pay of the morgue's overworked doctors and award bonuses, the health minister said.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090700768_pf.html (969 words)

	Morgue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A morgue or mortuary is a building or room (as in a hospital) used for the storage of human remains.
		In some funeral homes the morgue is in the same room, or directly adjacent to the specially designed ovens used in funerary cremation known as retorts.
		Morgues have been constructed in all large cities in the United States; in Boston (1851), in New York, (1866), in Chicago, (1872), etc.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morgue (589 words)

	Morgue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A morgue is a building or room (as in a hospital) used for the storage of human remains.
		Probably because it is in a sense where the "dead bodies" are kept, the term morgue is also used to refer to the room where newspapers and magazines keep back issues and other historical references.
		The City Morgue Washington, DC based print magazine published bi-monthly that covers what's going on in the Goth/Industrial community, as well as accepting fiction, art, and photography.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Morgue.html (399 words)

	Baghdad's Packed Morgue Marks a City's Descent Into Lawlessness
		They are then brought to the morgue, where a meticulous man wearing rubber gloves ties strings around their wrists and assigns each of them a number.
		The morgue itself was a victim of crime during the war.
		Wrapped in carpets and lowered from the roofs of taxis and minibuses, the coffins were placed by the morgue door until names were called and bodies carried into the sunlight and loaded for the 110-mile journey to the holy city of Najaf for burial.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article4723.htm (1528 words)

	Rue Morgue Magazine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rue Morgue is a Canadian magazine dedicated to covering "horror in culture and entertainment," taking its name from Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
		The well known Rue Morgue logo was created by the magazine's Art Director, Gary Pullin and was first published on the cover of its seventh issue.
		Rue Morgue has grown a very active community among horror fans with their annual Festival of Fear in Toronto, as well as their online message board, the Rue Mortuary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rue_Morgue_Magazine (278 words)

	Newspaper Morgues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Morgues are collections of reference clippings files maintained for the news sources' researchers and reporters.
		Clippings morgues provide an excellent resource for research, since actual copies of all the articles desired on one topic are contained in one place, and not scattered throughout microfilmed, chronological reels of entire publications.
		The NEW YORK JOURNAL AMERICAN morgue of approximately 9 million clippings was transferred to the Center for American History by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, which had received the morgue in 1967 and the
	www.cah.utexas.edu /newspapers/morgues.html (1806 words)

	morguefile.com Where photo reference lives.
		This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.
		The term "morgue file" is popular in the newspaper business to describe the file that holds past issues flats.
		Although the term has been used by illustrators, comic book artist, designers and teachers as well.
	www.morguefile.com (227 words)

	Crisis in Haiti : Hundreds of bodies pile up in morgue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This is where the main morgue in Port-au-Prince, 20 miles away, brings the destitute and unclaimed, the thousands of people who die every year with no means for a private funeral.
		The morgue’s coordinator, Rony Sterling, said that his workers used a tractor to dig a ditch and cover the bodies with at least six feet of dirt.
		If the morgue is the beginning of a bureaucratic horror show, Austan the broom-maker will show you the end.
	www.haiti-info.com /imprimer.php3?id_article=1796 (1124 words)

	Miami-Dade County - Medical Examiner
		The "decomp" morgue handles cases where bodies have undergone decomposition or where bodies are known to have infectious diseases such as tuberculosis or hepatitis.
		The main morgue has four coolers with a capacity of 120 bodies in each, and the decomp morgue has its own cooler, capable of handling 75 more bodies, and giving the morgue a capacity of holding 555 bodies.
		The Morgue has a number of other rooms, including an anthropology lab, a drying room, a gross specimen storage room, two X-ray rooms, a supply area, an employee lounge, a security station, and doctor dictation suites.
	www.co.miami-dade.fl.us /medexam/about_morgue.asp (483 words)

	Death and Dying III
		This is why the workers at the morgue, the dissectors, like the embalmers who must open the body of the dead, instinctively cover the face of the cadaver.
		But against these professed, laudable social ends, the administrators of the Parisian morgue could not have predicted that their institution was to become the best show in town: public theater, open to the public from dawn to dusk.
		Critics of the morgue called it a "bloody spectacle," and opposed it on the same grounds as the spectacle of public executions, namely, because harrowing spectacles of that sort would stir the shady part of the soul, might excite cruel and barbarous feelings, and thereby would increase crime.
	seeingthedifference.berkeley.edu /gonz-crussi.html (2832 words)

	JonBenet morgue records missing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When a body is delivered to the morgue, an entry is made in the morgue's log-in book, registering the name and age of the deceased, and the date and time they arrived there, Terman said.
		"It's kept inside the morgue, and the morgue is locked at all times,'' she said.
		Because of the theft, officials can't say when JonBenet, who was found strangled in her family's basement, arrived at the morgue; the two pages stolen cover late December and early January.
	denver.rockymountainnews.com /extra/ramsey/0510jon.htm (305 words)

	KCKCC.EDU - The Morgue [mortuary journals database]
		Welcome to The Morgue, Kansas City Kansas Community College's premier author subject index to English language journals within the field of Mortuary Science.
		The Morgue attempts to provide students, scholars and researchers with an on-line tool specifically targeted at the literature in field of Mortuary Science.The database can be searched by subject heading by scrolling through the subjects indexed list.
		At this stage in its development, The Morgue does not index articles relating to association news, conventions, interviews, features, reader's forums, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, or briefs.
	www.kckcc.edu /library/morgue (246 words)

	EI > DVD > Cry of the Banshee / Murders in the Rue Morgue (1970, 71) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		While "Murders in the Rue Morgue" is still a rich, rewarding film, "Cry of the Banshee" is a sadistic mess that revels in torturing naked women.
		Both "Cry of the Banshee" and "Murders in the Rue Morgue" were directed by British horror maven Gordon Hessler (his lineage is a bit more complex, but I'll leave at this).
		While "Murders in the Rue Morgue" is Hessler's best genre film, "Cry of the Banshee" is one of his weakest films.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/dvd/cryofthebanshee_murdersintheruemorgue.php (897 words)

	Morgue
		Morgue was drawn to his dark tendencies, Drake to her beauty (odd taste, eh?).
		Along with Morgue, the writers introduced several other characters, including Eek, Squeak, and Archie, her pets (Frank Welker), her father, Moloculo (Jack Angel), Granny, Aunt Nasty (Kath Soucie), Cousin Globby (Jim Cummings), Nodoff, and various other family members.
		Morgue is clothed in a Morticia Adams style dress that varies in colour from maroon to light pink with one of those little wing-like things connected to her left pinky.
	www.angelfire.com /ut/RToons/MM.html (707 words)

	INDIA: Poor condition of the Basirhat Hospital morgue represents the collapse of post mortem system in West Bengal
		Mainly decomposed and rotten, the bodies are kept in a room with no door or windows; the morgue's deep fridge and air conditioner have been dysfunctional for a long time. Stray dogs, vultures and kites feast on the remnants of bodies in the compound.
		He was unable however, to say why more bodies were seen lying in the morgue, what the names of the dead were, or the dates of the post mortems.
		Therefore, the AHRC thus presses the West Bengal state government to immediately correct the situation in morgues throughout the state and ensure that the basic rights of the dead and their families are upheld.
	www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2005/1194 (1867 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Baghdad morgue, hospital logs tell of violence
		Twelve of his family members were massacred in their two-story home at lunchtime Aug. 25 in one of the inexplicable but increasingly common attacks that have made many Iraqis feel less safe than they did during the American invasion -- and which have become a rallying point against military authorities.
		In 2002 the Baghdad morgue conducted autopsies in 3,500 suspicious deaths; 350 died from gunshot wounds.
		Pushing through a crowd several hundred-strong when his name was called, Ali entered the morgue's anteroom through the blue cast-iron sliding doors upon which a notice declared: "No tips greater than 10,000 dinars accepted.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2003/09/03/baghdad_morgue_hospital_logs_tell_of_violence (1068 words)

	USATODAY.com - Morgue units preparing as Katrina's dead uncovered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He and other doctors say the task of identifying the casualties and returning their bodies to families will be difficult, particularly because many of the dead have been submerged in water for more than a week.
		The DMORT idea was born partly as the result of previous tragedies, such as the crash of TWA flight 800 on Long Island in 1996, in which the recovery of bodies took a long time and victims' relatives complained that they could not get information.
		Members of the morgue teams are essentially deputized by the federal government to respond to emergencies in which large numbers of fatalities overwhelm local resources.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-09-07-cover-morgue-units_x.htm (2103 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hilo hospital sues to get dead body removed from morgue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Hilo Medical Center has filed a lawsuit to force the removal of a body left in the hospital morgue for more than two years, saying the stench from the decomposing remains is causing a psychological hazard for the staff.
		The body of the unidentified woman was brought to the hospital and placed in the basement morgue on Dec. 11, 2001, according to the suit filed in Circuit Court in Honolulu last week.
		The odor is confined to the morgue area and staff are dealing with the problem, said Miles Takaaze, spokesman for Hawaii Health Systems, which owns and operates the hospital.
	www.usatoday.com /news/offbeat/2004-01-22-please-go-away-now_x.htm (384 words)

	Mystery Rummy Review
		The color art in Rue Morgue really leaps off the cards in comparison to the faux period Jack the Ripper art, but both sets are attractive, well-designed, and functional.
		Rue Morgue is more of an introductory game that will probably be much easier for the non-gamer to grasp.
		As an example, in one tournament of Rue Morgue I was in where we were playing partnership games, I was fortunate enough to be paired with someone who was also a Bridge player.
	gamereport.com /tgr21/mysteryrummy.html (2982 words)

	CBC British Columbia - Woman taken to morgue by mistake
		VANCOUVER– An elderly woman in a deep slumber was mistakenly sent to the morgue over the weekend after body collectors confused her with her deceased roommate.
		Health authorities say a driver who transports the dead failed to check the woman's identification bracelets and ended up taking the 87-year-old to a morgue across the street from her extended care facility.
		The mix-up was only discovered when workers at the Surrey Memorial morgue noticed some movement on the stretcher where the woman lay sleeping.
	www.cbc.ca /bc/story/bc_morgue20050321.html (238 words)

	THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE by E. A. Poe (1841) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		After some delay, occasioned by a fruitless attempt to procure admission in the usual manner, the gateway was broken in with a crowbar, and eight or ten of the neighbors entered, accompanied by two gendarmes.
		In passing down an alley in the rear of the Rue Morgue, the fugitive's attention was arrested by a light gleaming from the open window of Madame L'Espanaye's chamber, in the fourth story of her house.
		Rushing to the building, it perceived the lightning-rod, clambered up with inconceivable agility, grasped the shutter, which was thrown fully back against the wall, and, by its means, swung itself directly upon the headboard of the bed.
	bau2.uibk.ac.at /sg/poe/works/murders.html (12439 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		Morgue, originally a specific building in Paris where bodies were exposed for identification; originally the place where new prisoners were displayed to keepers to establish their identification.
		Probably from morgue "haughtiness," originally "a sad expression, solemn look," from O.Fr.
		morguer "look solemnly," from V.L. murricare "to make a face, pout," from murrum "muzzle, snout." Adopted as a general term in U.S., 1880s, replacing earlier dead house, etc. In newspaper slang, "collection of pre-written obituary material of living persons" (1903), hence "library of clips, photos, etc.," 1918.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?term=morgue (86 words)

	DuPage County Coroner - Pete Siekmann
		The morgue was designed with three specific goals in mind.
		First is to serve the needs of the residents of DuPage County, second is to meet the needs of the future, and the third and most important is to accomplish all of this in the most cost-effective means possible.
		Contained in the morgue is an isolation autopsy suite that is self-contained with its own x-ray equipment and a separate access to the freezer unit.
	www.dupageco.org /coroner/generic.cfm?doc_id=78 (222 words)

	Tales from the Crypt: The Wayne County Morgue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		According to an old newspaper clip, the official name of the morgue was the Wayne County Coroner's Court and Mortuary.
		The morgue employee told of an old man who was brought in dead from a local bar.
		Artifacts from the morgue: Brake and accelerator pedals leave imprints on show soles, which help determine whether the driver was awake or asleep at the time of impact, or if he or she committed suicide..
	info.detnews.com /history/story/index.cfm?id=166&category=locations (1829 words)

	www.myspace.com/morguecity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Morgue City winning battle of the bands is just a click away (view more)
		Members, Matt and SPIKE the Percussionist formed the foundation for Morgue City with original, catchy licks and simplisticly complicated beats.Matt has played in such bands as M-87 and The Southern Backtones.
		Once the architecture of Morgue City was designed the band needed more personnel in order to build it.
	www.myspace.com /morguecity (820 words)

	Majikthise : Morgue mishap: Kyle and Majikthise go to prison
		Kyle and I figured that one way to get a real answer would be to count the refrigerated semi-trucks as they arrived at the morgue.
		We didn't expect to get access to the morgue itself, but we hoped we could figure out where the Disaster Mortuary Operational Teams (DMORT) hang out.
		We thought we were staking out the morgue to meet a friend, I said, suddenly realizing how implausible I must sound.
	majikthise.typepad.com /majikthise_/2005/09/morgue_mishap_k.html (1634 words)

	The W.A.S.P. Morgue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		W.A.S.P. Morgue will be re-designed and moved to's new domain "www.waspmorgue.com".
		Unfortunatly Angelfire makes it impossible for us to keep running the site at this adress, wich is sad because we've been here for 8 years now.
		As soon as the site is online at the new adress you will find a link to it here.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/WASPMORGUE/wasp-index.html (56 words)

	L. Gozlan : La Morgue (1831)
		La Morgue, vue de Notre-Dame, est échouée, sur la rive gauche de la Seine, dans la Cité.
		La Morgue est le point central du voisinage : on y court comme à la gazette du matin, et chaque fois c'est une leçon de philosophie, car on sait là sur le bout du doigt ce que coûte une fête de souverain, un acte d'héroïsme populaire, une administration vantée par le Moniteur.
		Ouverte à tous les vents, la Morgue est un bâtiment de vingt-quatre pieds d'étendue, à peu près ; huit pour le public, douze pour le plain-pied des propriétaires : le reste, on devine pour qui.
	www.bmlisieux.com /curiosa/gozlan01.htm (5020 words)

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