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Wednesday, April 1
April 1, 2009

The wreck of the MV City of Rayville, the first American ship sunk during World War II, has been found off the southeastern coast of Australia. The merchant vessel was carrying a load of lead, wool, and copper when in hit a German mine in 1940. Earlier this week, Robert Deutsch testified for the first […]

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Tuesday, March 31
March 31, 2009

New CT scans of the famous bust of Nefertiti suggest that the statue’s limestone core may represent a more realistic image of Akhenaten’s wife, complete with less prominent cheekbones, a bump on the ridge of the nose, wrinkles, and less depth at the corners of the eyelids.   Here’s a second article and view of Nefertiti’s […]

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