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Subject: In the latest explorator
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Excerpts from Issue 2.84

Also on the 'big news' department is the discovery of what may be the 
oldest Christian cemetery in Ireland:

http://www.ireland.com:80/newspaper/ireland/2000/0323/hom9.htm

The Times of London reports that a hitherto bit of sloppy pot decoration is 
now being used as evidence for fossils in antiquity:

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/03/20/timfgneur01007.html


The Guardian reports on an eccentric bishop's bequest to the Vatican: a 
sculpture of a satyr in a typically satyric pose, which was supposedly made 
by Praxiteles:

http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,150734,00.html

The BBC has an interesting report on the 'richest people' of the past 
millennium (various fortunes were converted to modern money) ... it would 
appear that William the Conqueror paid his followers well:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_690000/690763.stm

Classicists will be interested in a feature in the Telegraph, contrasting 
Martha Lane Fox with her father Robin (watch the wrap):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=Vw44GGZx&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/00/3/15/nlast115.html


OBITUARIES

Kate Washburn:

http://www7.mercurycenter.com:80/premium/local/docs/washburn25.htm



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