[1] Michael Long presents a comprehensive and persuasive account of the function and meaning of the dice in âSymbol and Ritual in Josquinâs Missa di Dadiâ, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol.42, No.1.
On January 15, 1947, 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia, was discovered brutally murdered in a vacant lot near the intersection of 39th Street and Norton Avenue in South Los Angeles, according to TruTV.
Best Answer: According to newspaper reports shortly after the murder, Short received the nickname Black Dahlia at a Long Beach drugstore in the summer of 1946, as a play on the then-current movie The Blue Dahlia, starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake.