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Monday, March 19
March 19, 2012

A live bomb dating to World War II was discovered by construction site workers in southern France. The bomb was carefully neutralized and transported to a military base where it will be destroyed. Sports scientists are studying skeletons recovered from King Henry VIII’s warship, the Mary Rose, to learn how heavy bows changed the bodies of […]

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Friday, March 16
March 16, 2012

Four graves have been found at the site of a previously unknown Anglo-Saxon settlement on the outskirts of Cambridge, England. One of the graves contained the skeleton of a young woman who had been wearing a Christian pectoral cross made of gold and garnets. Her body had been placed on a bed that archaeologists think had […]

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