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foxfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:31 PM
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Amelia Earhart's finger bone recovered?
Fragment found on atoll believed to be pilot's final resting place
By Rossella Lorenzi
Discovery Channel

A tiny bone fragment could provide crucial information about the fate of Amelia Earhart, the legendary pilot who disappeared 73 years ago while flying over the Pacific Ocean in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator.

Collected on Nikumaroro, an uninhabited tropical island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati, the bone has raised the interest of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which has long been investigating the Earhart mystery, as it may be from a human finger.

The phalax was found together with other artifacts during a month-long expedition last June to the tiny coral atoll believed to be Earhart's final resting place.

.."At first we assumed it was from the turtle whose remains we found nearby. Indeed, sea turtles have finger bones in their flippers. But further research suggests it could also be human," Ric Gillespie, executive director of TIGHAR, told Discovery News.
Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40605153/ns/technology_and_science-science/

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Hawkowl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:32 PM
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1. No, it 's Peter Pettigrew. .nt
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BzaDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:32 PM
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2. ROFL
:rofl:
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:42 PM
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3. LMFAO
Well played! :)
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:43 PM
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4. I hope that she is still o.k..
Edited on Fri Dec-10-10 05:19 PM by Botany
Can you imagine of how bad it would be to live w/out a finger?

If she is right handed then I hope it is from her left hand.

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Buns_of_Fire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:52 PM
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5. So a turtle ate Amelia Earhart. Okay, that explains a lot of things.
Or does it? Was Amelia Earhart secretly a turtle? And if so, how did she reach the rudder pedals?
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:56 PM
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6. I have some other relics for sale...
Among them, the skull of Christopher Columbus when he was a boy, and also his skull from he was a grown man...

(swiped that from someone else, I must admit, and probably botched it)
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Kennah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 05:11 PM
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7. Probably her middle finger
The horn on the Model 10 Electra was notoriously unreliable.
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