Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: old corpses in the newspaper Message-ID: <1015@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 09:28:04 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxa.1015 Posted: Mon Oct 1 09:28:04 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Oct-84 07:39:44 EDT References: <339@pucc-k> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 12 Laurie, the corpse was 138 years old, not 38. The sailor had been a member of the Franklin expedition, searching for the Northwest Passage. Now, given that noone survived the expedition, and we don't know what happened to them, this is a pretty interesting find. The pictures of the corpse aree what most folks consider news. The body was perfectly preserved in every detail. This fact will allow scientists to discover, perhaps, what the men died of up there in the arctic. I guess I feel no more offended by seeing pictures of the seaman than I do of seeing pictures of Lenin or Mao in their glass coffins. T. C. Wheeler