HA HA HA HA....Thanks Ed for the laugh.
Lori Allen,
Graduate Student, UMSL
"Well behaved women rarely make history."
- Anonymous
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Subject: Re: * Museum Reopens after Toxic Spill * Herman the rap-loving
'human' cow * 1874 cannibal did not kill his meals * Fashion museum
allows woman to strut *
told those archivists to stop having thermometer toss contests.....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 12:14 AM
Subject: * Museum Reopens after Toxic Spill * Herman the rap-loving 'human'
cow * 1874 cannibal did not kill his meals * Fashion museum allows woman to
strut *
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> ** Museum claims 1874 cannibal did not kill his meals
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>
> ** Museum Reopens after Toxic Spill
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> ** Past and present in Hungary's House of Terror
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> ** Korea Foundation to protest N. K. exhibits at British Museum
> It found that several exhibits, including a hanging scroll with
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> ** Paxman returns Nazi code machine to museum
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> ** Lesson No. 1: Shed your Indian identity
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> ** Of hummingbirds and elephants
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> ** Beetle Bailey creator selling cartoon museum
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> ** Orkney tribute to Italian PoWs who became part of the family
> The exhibition, at Stromness Museum, marks 60 years since the arrival in
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> ** Historic sites watch funds dwindle away
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