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Archaeologist Discovers Lost Arms of Venus De Milo
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Posted on 11/13/2002 2:02:19 PM PST by Rodney King
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FYI
To: Rodney King
Onion?
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posted on
11/13/2002 2:05:10 PM PST
by
Thebaddog
To: Rodney King
INCOMING!!!
To: Rodney King
The Weekly World NewsOne of my very favorite publications.
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posted on
11/13/2002 2:07:58 PM PST
by
Doodle
To: Paul Atreides
huh? This isn't a vanity!
To: Thebaddog
Great minds think alike....
To: Rodney King
Update: Upon reattaching the arms, art historians were shocked to find that the famed Venus de Milo was picking her nose.
To: Rodney King
Just damn.
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posted on
11/13/2002 2:10:16 PM PST
by
mhking
To: Rodney King
I think the news source for this is the internet equivalent to the Enquirer....did you see the baby alien on the first page?
To: Rodney King
Sounds like the archiologist who discovered the "James' Ossuary" is at it again.
To: Rodney King; longshadow; PatrickHenry; Junior; balrog666
“Then we did some carbon-dating and we confirmed that these are the real deal.” Very cool. Carbon dating a marble statue. This is the kind of real science we should be pissing away money for...
To: Rodney King
Forearm model for Venus de Milo.
To: Rodney King
“Instead of looking like the hands of a goddess, they look like those of a plumber!” Josephine?
To: general_re
LOL
To: Jagdgewehr
Newsflash: The Louvre hasn't decided whether colorized classic B&W films constitute art. Film at 11.
To: Rodney King
I like the Weekly World News.....where else can you read stories and see pictures of The Bat Boy, The Worlds Other Fattest Man and Jesus while waiting to pay for your groceries?
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posted on
11/13/2002 2:20:17 PM PST
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Delbert
To: Rodney King
The giveaway is the mention of King Louis VIII. He reigned from 1223 to 1226, long before the statue was rediscovered.
I believe a geologist might be able to determine if one piece of marble matched another piece, but I doubt carbon dating would help.
If they were able to prove that one of the hands originally held a lamp, they'd have to rename it the Hillary de Milo, of course.
To: general_re
Carbon dating a marble statue. You beat me to it.
To: general_re
But you can carbon-date a marble statue. It's calcium carbonate. Only problem is that it wouldn't tell you when the statue was carved, it would tell you when the marble was formed ... if it worked back that far, which it doesn't.
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11/13/2002 2:22:10 PM PST
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Campion
To: Rodney King
Wasn't the Venus de Milo found on Melos in the Aegean? How would the arms end up in Croatia?
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