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After 5,000 Years, the Mystery
Of Fritz Just Won't End
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ^
| Tuesday, February 3, 2004
| MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG
Posted on 02/03/2004 5:55:32 AM PST by presidio9
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:51:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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BOLZANO, South Tyrol -- One spring day in about 3300 B.C., a bearded, 5-foot-3, middle-age man in a bearskin cap was traversing the Tyrolean Alps when a flint arrowhead pierced his fur pelt and bore into his back. He bled to death in the snow.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; archaeology; cantstandsya; frozenfritz; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; history; iceman; oetzi; otzi; shrinkage; theiceman
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To: presidio9
Reparations!
To: DManA
Europeans are so starved for entertainment that 150,000 of 'em drive to see a dead body Including, no doubt, tens of thousands of French people this summer who drove to see a dead old guy on ice, leaving another dead old guy roasting at home.
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02/03/2004 9:11:37 AM PST
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presidio9
(FREE MARTHA)
To: presidio9
C'mon, Walter Mondale isn't *that* old!
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