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  1. cybercore

    No joke: Ex-mayor's name too funny for Ind. center

    A former Indiana mayor who won four terms in the 1930s and 1950s is proving less popular with modern-day city leaders, who say they probably won't name a new government center for him because of the jokes his moniker could inspire. Harry Baals is the runaway favorite in online voting to name...
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  2. cybercore

    Court confiscates 3 tons of mammoth tusks

    Link Removed due to 404 Error ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Russian authorities have confiscated three tonnes of mammoth tusks from a criminal gang which tried to smuggle them out of the country. The court office of the northern city of St. Petersburg said on Thursday that it had...
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    • archaeology biodiversity confiscation conservation court criminals extinction fossils gang heritage illegal trade mammoth permafrost russia siberia smuggling st. petersburg tusks wildlife yakutia
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  3. cybercore

    VIDEO Parthenon

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  4. Mike

    Columbus Day in America? Or is it?

    In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue... Ancients in America
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  5. reghakr

    High-Tech Headstones Let You Speak From Beyond the Grave

    After he dies, Christopher Hill plans to speak to his grandchildren, great grandchildren and even future generations from beyond the grave – not through a psychic medium or his last will and testament, but through a microchip. You no longer a need to go to the chapel, just tune into the...
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    • access communication connection emotional futuregenerations gravestone headstones heritage innovation longevity memorial microchip objecs personalization remembrance rfid storytelling tablet technology webcast
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