Skull
This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
The skull is a bony structure in the head of most vertebrates (in particular, craniates) that supports the structures of the face and forms a protective cavity for the brain. The skull is composed of two parts: the cranium and the mandible. The skull forms the anterior most portion of the skeleton and is a product of encephalization, housing the brain, many sensory structures (eyes, ears, nasal cavity), and the feeding system.
Functions of the skull include protection of the brain, fixing the distance between the eyes to allow stereoscopic vision, and fixing the position of the ears to help the brain use auditory cues to judge direction and distance of sounds. In some animals, the skull also has a defensive function (e.g. horned ungulates); the frontal bone is where horns are mounted.
The English word "skull" is probably derived from Old Norse "skalli" meaning bald, while the Latin word cranium comes from the Greek root κρανίον (kranion).
Cranium (board game)
Cranium is a party game created by Whit Alexander and Richard Tait in 1998, after Richard spent a weekend playing games with another family and recognized the need for a game involving a variety of skills. He left his job at Microsoft, convincing his friend and co-worker Whit Alexander to join him in the creation of Cranium. Cranium, manufactured by Hasbro subsidiary Cranium, Inc., is billed as "The Game for Your Whole Brain". Unlike many other party games, Cranium includes a wide variety of activities. Giorgio Davanzo handles packaging and branding for the game, and the artwork is done by Gary Baseman, creator of the animated television series Teacher's Pet.
Board
The board is laid out as a circuit, consisting of different color spaces. Each color corresponds to a question card category. Purple "Planet Cranium" spaces give the team their choice of category.
Rules
Players are divided into two, three, or four teams. Each team picks a mover (game piece).
Order of play: The team with the player whose birthday is coming up next starts the game. Play then continue clockwise to the next team. Each team, in turn, places its mover on a purple "Planet Cranium" space.
Cranium (band)
Cranium is a Swedish speed metal band formed in 1984. Cranium's music resembles German speed metal and thrash metal bands like Kreator, Sodom, and Destruction.
Discography
Members
Former members
Podcasts:
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ALBUMS
- Perintah Dunia Baru released: 2012
- Rotten in Nocturnal Aggression released: 2001
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- Speed Metal Slaughter released: 1998
- A Tribute To: released: 1997
- Speed Metal Satan! released:
- Speed Metal Sentence released:
- The Dawning of Pure Evil: 5 Years of Necropolis Records released:
The Dawning of Pure Evil: 5 Years of Necropolis Records
- The Aphelion Deserts
- Grave Desecrator
- Hellish Blasphemy
- Times to Come Are Frozen
- The Howling
- Untimely End
- Diabolic Bloodwar
- Myself / Dreaming
- Frozen
- Total War
- Storm of Steel and Hate
- Dawn of Armageddon
- Dark Red Light Above the Bomos
- Slavehammer
- Trulfylket
- One Night in Hell
- Genocide
- Crucified
- Kill Everyone
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ALBUMS
- Phantasmagoria released: 2008
- Pragmatics released: 2001
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Taxi Terror
by: CraniumCome on now, let's go for taxi terror!
Come on!
[Verse I:]
Taxi terror, we are terror on your streets
And all the others will taste defeat
We operate under a nice facade
But we are evil and so are our cars!
Now passengers disappear
And the city starts to fear
But you cannot hold us down
As we terrorize your town!
[Bridge:]
We take you far away
To kill and rape and slay
It happens everyday!
Into the countryside
Somewhere in the night
We play the game of homicide!
[Chorus I:]
Taxi terror - you're trapped under my wheels!
Taxi terror - can you hear his screams?
(Oooooooooooooooohhhhh!!)
[Verse II:]
Take a seat and I will close the door
But it is locked, you scream "What for?"
I step on it and drive like hell
Out of town, in panic you now yell (Help!)
And now we have arrived
You will be sacrificed
You will go to hell tonight
We pray to Satan, when you have died
[Repeat Bridge]
[Chorus II:]
Taxi terror - chained in the back seat!
Taxi terror - You soon will be minced meat!
(Uuuuuuaaaaahhh!)
Taxi terror - we are masters of the streets
Taxi terror - trapped under my wheels
Taxi terror - you soon will be minced meat
Taxi terror - this is how it feels!
(AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!)
Taxi terror! Taxi terror! Taxi terror! Taxi terror!
[Repeat Verse I]
[Repeat Bridge]