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Mystery of Mozart Skull Deepens
VOA News ^
| 9 January 2006
| VOA News
Posted on 01/08/2006 7:26:45 PM PST by CurlyBill
Mystery of Mozart Skull Deepens
By VOA News
09 January 2006
Forensic scientists say they have failed to unravel the 200-year old mystery of the skull of legendary Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Austrian television commissioned American and Austrian scientists to carry out DNA tests on a skull that some experts insist is Mozart's.
The scientists hoped to match its DNA to genetic samples taken from what they believed are the skeletons of Mozart's grandmother and niece.
The scientists said on Austrian television Sunday that the skeletons do not match the skull, and that the skeletons are also unrelated - creating a whole new mystery of who is buried the Mozart family crypt.
Mozart was buried in a Vienna pauper's cemetery in 1791. The skull was thought to have been dug up 10 years later.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: austria; classicalmusic; dna; dnatesting; forensics; forensicscience; mozart; mozartburial; music; mystery
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To: Xenalyte
For the way his career has gone since then, that may very well be Hulce's skull they found. "Alas, Poor Thomas...I knew him F. Murray"
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Borges
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01/09/2006 8:22:06 AM PST
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devolve
(<-- (-in a manner reminiscent of Senator Gasbag F. Kohnman-)
To: wideminded
Nah that's not him. It looks nothing like him. He used to cut my parent's grass.
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01/09/2006 8:25:10 AM PST
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AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: devolve
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01/09/2006 8:52:07 AM PST
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Lady Jag
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To: Lady Jag
HILLARY/2008
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01/09/2006 9:06:47 AM PST
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devolve
(<-- (-in a manner reminiscent of Senator Gasbag F. Kohnman-)
To: devolve
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Lady Jag
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To: Lady Jag; PhilDragoo; potlatch; ntnychik; pookie18
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01/09/2006 9:48:35 AM PST
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devolve
(<-- (-in a manner reminiscent of Senator Gasbag F. Kohnman-)
To: devolve
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01/09/2006 10:08:15 AM PST
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Lady Jag
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To: Lady Jag
You are impossible to top
I forgot to link this one to a Mozart ditty
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posted on
01/09/2006 10:18:32 AM PST
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devolve
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To: devolve
"You can't help that. We're all mad here." - The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland
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01/09/2006 10:49:41 AM PST
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Lady Jag
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To: devolve
Besides, I'm a carnivore.
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01/09/2006 10:51:31 AM PST
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Lady Jag
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To: devolve
LOL!
I saw all of your pings, but really wanna bump this one.
I love the post in it's entirety.
But, I, especially, LOVE Woodstock!
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