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Specialists from the Moscow-based Center for Biomedical Technologies also have embalmed Kim Il Sung and other Communist leaders, including the Soviet Union’s Josef Stalin and Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh, the station said on its website.

From BusinessWeek • Dec. 28, 2011

Director Milos Forman and screenwriter Jean- Claude Carriere have not so much adapted this deliciously nasty tale as they have embalmed it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Love and fidelity have embalmed her deed and lent her immortality.

From The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Hillis, Newell Dwight

Improvised undertaking shops have embalmed and placed in their shrouds 198 persons.

From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by Walker, James Herbert

Cable and Harris have looked toward the past, and have embalmed vanished or vanishing types.

From The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States by Brawley, Benjamin Griffith