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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: old corpses in the newspaper
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Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 09:28:04 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  1 09:28:04 1984
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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