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Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found

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13 hours ago | not rated yet | 5

(AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum ...

Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin (Update)

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Nov 20, 2009 | 1.7 / 5 (22) | 23

(AP) -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading ...