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I thought that a thread for only headlines (connecting to links) should be here in the Coffee Room. The Key Masters for the main news site obviously don’t want to stuff up the main page with too much news; thus, I find myself sometimes looking for more news, commentary, opinions etc. This thread is dedicated for the news savvy people (like me) that need to be “on top of the news all the time.” Please post only Headlines with links not the actual articles (to keep it short and easy to read). See Something, Say Something – if you read something good, share it with others here by posting the Headline and URL.
I don’t think I saw this one on the main page…
Embalmed head of France’s King Henri IV found
By Stefano Ambrogi
LONDON | Fri Dec 17, 2010
(Reuters) – A team of scientists say they have positively identified an embalmed head, presumed lost in the chaos of the French Revolution, as that of King Henri IV of France who was assassinated in 1610.
The head was apparently lost after revolutionaries desecrated the graves of French kings in the royal basilica of Saint-Denis near Paris in 1793.
Few remains of those bodies have ever been found and positively identified since.
But a team of experts using advanced scientific techniques say they have conclusively identified the head, passed down over the centuries by private collectors, as that of the monarch.
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WikiLeaks Report: The Lubavitcher Rebbe DID die in 1992.
Shabbos in Ben-Gurion Airport
I am not impressed. They should have gotten off the plane in Switzerland before it left.
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