The Head of Medusa, from Caligula's Nemi Ship

torschlusspanik: "last minute panic"
colloquially describes an occurring fear of missing something important.

Something to chill you

The idea that For millions of years no one knew that they had a fear of flying.

Map of Paris - 1784: The "New Road Plan for the City and Suburbs of Paris".

Sarah Fier’s Cursed Hand by Houston Sharp

A Greek Silver Coin depicting the Head of Athena wearing earring and helmet decorated with olive-leaves. Reversed is an Owl (Wisdom) within incuse square with olive-spray and crescent. 450-406 BC and minted in Athens.

Japanese physician and pathologist Fukushi Masaichi collected tattooed skin from the dead during the early 20th century. Masaichi first became interested in tattoos when he noticed that the tattoo ink in the skin killed the skin lesions of syphilis. This led him in 1926 to study the art of Japanese tattoo (Irezumi). He would lead autopsies on corpses, removing the skin and conducting research on methods to preserve the skin. In the following years, he collected an archive of about 2000 "hides".

Masaichi put some of his unique collection of tattooed hides and groomed skin that had been outsourced in the early 1940s in an air raid shelter. Since they were protected from the effects of WW2, they survived the bombings. These skins are all that remains of his collection.