Posted on 12/12/2008 8:17:03 AM PST by BGHater
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Yellow was Abby Normal’s favorite color.
...only to find out they are watching another danged rerun...
It’s alive, Marster, it’s alive!
The oldest human brains ever found are in Florida:
"*Skeletal remains of 169 people, split almost evenly between males and females, ranging from 6 to 70 years old. About 75 of the skeletons were relatively intact.
*90 intact human brains that include the oldest DNA samples in the World.
*Artifacts of wood, bone, and seed that were made into jewelry and tools, providing insight into the ancient peoples' lives.
*Tests showed the oldest skeletons were buried 8,100 years ago. The youngest was placed in the ground 6,900 years ago.
"To put this into context," Doran said, "these people had already been dead for 3,000 or 4,000 years before the first stones were laid for the Egyptian pyramids!"
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"The primary significance of Windover is the seeming sophisticated culture of these people who lived there 8,100 years ago and before. Windover dates an advanced culture in North America that precedes any previously discovered anywhere else in the World.
I knew I wouldn’t get here in time for the “insert Helen Thomas joke here” comment.
“Damn your eyes!”
Thanks blam!
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