Friday, June 26, 2015

VGS Latest News & Tips: 26 Jun 2015

Our June Monthly Meeting was well attended...
Fully dressed and preserved 350-year-old corpse of French noblewoman found:
theguardian
"French archaeologists have uncovered the well-preserved body of a noblewoman who died 350 years ago – along with the clothes in which she was buried, including her cap and shoes, still intact."
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How Are We Related?
Crestleaf.com
This is a pretty cool relationship cart.
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Civil War vet’s grave surfaces as drought shrinks Monterey County lake:
ChicoER News
"Joseph Botts Jr. stepped out of his pickup truck into a scrubby, sunbaked field of salt grass and mustard weed and bent over a granite slab bearing a worn inscription: “Corp’l John McBride."
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This Day In History:
1927: The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
1917: The first U.S. Troops arrive in France during World War 1
1284: The legendary Pied Piper leads 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany.


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