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ANNOUNCEMENT:
RUSSIA
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- Mummy
warranty: Lenin's mummy will be preserved 'certainly for a century
and more' (telegraph.co.uk)
"The head of a once-secret Russian
committee that maintains the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin denounced
calls to bury him yesterday and vowed to preserve the revolutionary for
generations."
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MUMMY
MASTER: ZAHI HAWASS
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- Zahi
Hawass: controversial Egyptian mummy master
(dailystar.com)
"He is a controversial figure. The
author of several books on archaeology, and a recurrent guest on
National Geographic television specials, he reportedly coined the term
“pyramidiots,” in reference to New Age pyramids enthusiasts. Last
year, he kicked 14 expeditions out of the country, which did little to
diminish his maverick reputation."
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| CRIME:
OHIO |
- Mummified
woman leads to son's arrest, trial
(cincypost.com)
"Police discovered the mummified
body ... in the dry cistern on her Pippin Road property as well as,
prosecutors contend, evidence that her son should be convicted of murder
and sent to prison for life."
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| CRIME:
ARIZONA |
- Mummified
children lead to murder conviction
(CNN.com)
"A woman
convicted of killing three of her newborn children in the 1980s was
sentenced to 25 years to life Tuesday, less than a year after their
mummified remains were found in a storage shed in Arizona."
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DISCOVERY:
SCOTLAND
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- Mummified
cat, discovered in Edinburgh building, featured in special exhibit
(Scotsman.com)
"A mummified
cat discovered in one of Edinburgh’s oldest buildings by workers
restoring a painted ceiling is to go on display in a city museum...the
practice of putting dead animals into buildings was quite common across
Europe in the 18th century.
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DISCOVERY:
TEXAS
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- Accidentally
mummified Texas man finally identified
(mySanAntonio.com)
"The mummified body of a man found
last week east of Pleasanton in a culvert near Interstate 37 and Texas
97 has been identified....
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ANNOUNCEMENT:
ONTARIO
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- One
mummy's face comes back to life
(CBC.ca)
"A museum in southern Ontario
unveiled the mysterious face of a mummy on Friday."
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EXHIBIT:LOUISIANA
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- 'Mummies
in Nature' exhibit at NO's Audubon Louisiana
Nature Center (NOLA.com)
"Several staff members...found what
looked like a semiconscious opossum. As it turned out, it was dead,
but...mummified...."
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DISCOVERY:
EGYPT |
- Mummified
lion discovered in Egypt
(MSNBC.com)
"A French archaeologist says his
discovery of the first preserved lion skeleton in an ancient Egyptian
tomb demonstrates the exalted reputation enjoyed by the King of Beasts
more than 3,000 years ago."
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DISCOVERY:
TEXAS
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- Accidentally
mummified man discovered at Texas freeway entrance ramp
(mySanAntonio.com; fifth story on
page)
"A state highway employee cutting
weeds stumbled upon a mummified man's body Monday....
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MUMMY
MASTER: NASRY ISKANDER
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- A
profile of an Egyptian Mummy Master: Nasry Iskander (NYTimes.com; requires free
registration)
"It is much better to work with the
dead," he says, sitting in a squat room tucked away in the bowels
of the grand neo-classical building. "They give you less trouble.
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EXHIBIT: FLORIDA
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- Well-packed
mummy of Egyptian child arrives for new exhibit (PalmBeachPost.com)
"The mummy arrived in an
air-conditioned truck from Atlanta, packed in a custom-made box of
virgin wood stamped FRAGILE, wrapped in plastic and resting in layer
upon layer of spongy shock-absorbent material.
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DISCOVERY:
ENGLAND
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-
Mummified
cat discovered behind a bedroom wall (EADT.com)
"...building work at a Suffolk
property has led to the discovery of a mummified cat, a witch's broom, a
small skull and a pair of shoes – conjuring up theories of ancient
superstition and witchcraft.
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POSSIBILITY:
ITALY
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-
Could
the Medicis be mummies? (TLC.com)
"No fewer than 50 members of the
family that dominated the Florentine Renaissance are to be exhumed in
the attempt to unveil their last secrets, Italian authorities have
announced.
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DISCOVERY:
FLORIDA
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-
Verifying
a museum purchase: scanning a falcon mummy (TCPalm.com)
"The object was shaped like a little
mummy with a bird's head. About the size of a 20-ounce soda bottle, it
looked like it was made of mottled, dark brown clay. An examination
revealed the linen wraps."
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DISCOVERY:
RUSSIA
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-
5
unusual mummies found in shallow Siberian graves (International Herald Tribune)
"Russian scientists have unearthed
mummies roughly 1,000 years old, clad in copper masks, hoops and plates
- burial rites that archaeologists say they have never seen
before."
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DISCOVERY:
EGYPT
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-
Ancient
Egyptian official's tomb found (Independent.co.uk)
"...the tomb was found below a
dense cluster of mummy remains, wooden coffins and skeletons that dated
back to the late ancient Egyptian period, Ptolemaic and Greco-Roman
periods."
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