Maurice Tillet, The French Angel (1903-1954)

-Diagnosed at the age of 17 with acromegaly - a syndrome that results when the anterior pituitary gland produces excess growth hormone (GH) after epiphyseal plate closure at puberty.

-Tillet had a successful career as a professional wrestler from 1937 - 1953.

-He competed against Tor Johnson, who was billed as The Swedish Angel, on several occasions.

-Known as "The French Angel" and “Freak Ogre of the Ring”,

-The computer-animated cartoon character Shrek was modeled after him.

Head of a Mummified Cat　
Egyptian Late Period to Ptolemaic
c. 664–30 BCE

The Egyptians viewed their gods not as spirits but as intelligences that could be personified in a body. The earliest evidence of cats as deities comes from a 3100BC crystal cup decorated with an image of the lion-headed goddess Mafdet. The goddess Bast was originally depicted as a fiercely protective and warlike lion, like Sekhmet, but as Bastet's image "softened" over time she became more strongly associated with domestic cats.
As cats were sacred to Bast, the practice of mummification was extended to them, and the respect that cats received after death mirrored the respect they were treated with in everyday life. The Greek historian Herodotus wrote that in the event of a fire, men would guard the fire to make certain that no cats ran into the flame. Herodotus also wrote that when a cat died, the household would go into mourning as if for a human relative, and would often shave their eyebrows to signify their loss.

A colossal tomb at the temple of Bast was discovered in 1888. This tomb, outside of Beni Hasan, held more than nineteen tonnes of animal mummies and remains, the vast majority being cats..
The farmer who made the discovery sold most of the tomb's contents to be ground up as fertilizer.
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Lucian Freud, Self Portrait; Reflection, 2003-2004
Height: 17.78 cm (7 in.), Width: 12.7 cm (5 in.)

Freud was 82 years old at the time this painting was completed.

Vincent Price 

publicity photo for The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)