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1 posted on 02/13/2014 8:29:44 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Don’t anybody ping bill clintoon, please.


2 posted on 02/13/2014 8:43:42 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: BenLurkin

From the photo, incredible preservation!!


3 posted on 02/13/2014 8:57:55 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: BenLurkin

Pelosi?


5 posted on 02/13/2014 9:46:38 PM PST by 4Liberty (Optimal institutions - optimal economy.)
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To: BenLurkin; nuconvert; SunkenCiv

Bizarre products came from mummies, or parts thereof. Such commodities included “Mummy,” ground mummies molded into pills for medicinal use (175); “mummy brown” paint (176); and cheap fuel for locomotives. Mark Twain reported in his 1869 travelogue The Innocents Abroad (Hartford, Conn.) that mummies were burned like coal to produce steam on the rail line from Cairo to Alexandria (176–77).

Entrepreneurs imported mummy rags to make paper in the United States. Paper mogul Isaac Augustus Stanwood, for example, had trouble obtaining enough domestic rags during the Civil War until he hit upon the idea of bringing over shiploads of linen-wrapped Egyptian mummies. His machinery macerated linen bandages and papyrus fillers. From the resulting slurry, Stanwood produced coarse brown sheets “sold to shopkeepers, grocers, and butchers, who used [them] for wrapping paper” (189).

http://www.ajaonline.org/online-review-book/1184


6 posted on 02/13/2014 10:35:54 PM PST by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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