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Galileo lost tooth, fingers go on show in Florence
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Posted on 06/09/2010 6:10:48 AM PDT by MollyKuehl
A tooth, thumb and finger cut off from the body of renowned Italian scientist Galileo, who died in 1642, go on display this week in Florence after an art collector found them by chance last year.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bohemianrhapsody; galileo; godsgravesglyphs
To: MollyKuehl
To: MollyKuehl
Gelileo fought someone tooth and nail and lost?
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:15:00 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
To: N. Theknow
yeah. At least, he got a chance to give them the finger.
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:16:23 AM PDT
by
Erasmus
(Looks like we're between a lithic outcropping and a region of low compressibility.)
To: MollyKuehl
Is this the same guy that says he owns Napoleon's mummified wee-wee and George Washington's wooden teeth?
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:17:30 AM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: Paved Paradise
This is nothing, you should see the relics the Catholic church keeps.
Bone relic of Anne Catherine Emmerich, who was a lover of holy relics herself
CREEPY!
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:17:48 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
To: MollyKuehl
A guy who’s long in the tooth and giving the finger to the public.
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:17:55 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: N. Theknow
Gelileo fought someone tooth and nail and lost?
Didn't you ever hear of the dangerous gangs of Florence? :)
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:18:59 AM PDT
by
MollyKuehl
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Maybe they can clone him...
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posted on
06/09/2010 6:27:53 AM PDT
by
refermech
To: TSgt
Oh, I know all about it. Of course, we do very similar things, don’t we? (not necessarily you and I, but our culture). I have heard of stories of people buying used chewing gum, dinner napkins and so on of celebrities. Meanwhile, the Smithsonian has Archie Bunker’s chair and all manner of oddball cultural relics.
So, in a way, it’s not surprising. The major difference is these often involve body parts. I think people thought that these “saints” were so special that by hanging on to a relic, some of it would rub off on them... some magical thinking there.
To: MollyKuehl
Oh that was bad (but funny).
To: TSgt
You seriously have Catholic Derangement Syndrome.
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posted on
06/09/2010 9:04:17 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
To: Pyro7480
You seriously have Catholic Derangement Syndrome.
I'm not the one keeping dead body parts around to gawk at. In most countries it's a crime known as gross abuse of a corpse. Now who's deranged?
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posted on
06/09/2010 9:48:59 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
To: TSgt
The thread was about Galileo, but you made it about your beef with Catholicism.
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posted on
06/09/2010 9:52:02 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
("If you know how not to pray, take Joseph as your master, and you will not go astray." - St. Teresa)
To: MollyKuehl; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; fanfan; Fred Nerks
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posted on
06/09/2010 2:44:00 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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