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• Museum claims Galileo fingers, tooth found

  
  Pakistan Views — Authority: 153
  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 director said Friday. Three fingers, a vertebra and a tooth were removed from the astronomer’s body by admirers ...
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• Mob Mentality and Marching to Your Own Drummer

  
  The Tax Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 504
  I found an exceptionally insightful article by Kiplinger.com’s Bob Frick titled “Don’t Trust the Crowd if you Value the Truth.”What’s scary about the herd mentality is how insidiously it gets you to see things differently. In fact, a recent experiment showed that we may actually be hard-wired to believe ...
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• Galileo’s Fingers and Tooth Have Been Found

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 153
  Wont find too many of these lying around! Stop looking people, Galileo’s fingers and tooth have been found! Yes, thats right after friggin 270 odd years of being detached  they have  finally been  found. Galileo, who pissed off the Vatican by saying the earth revolved around the sun died in 1642, but 95 years ...
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• Galileo’s finger points across the centuries

  
  Art Scatter — Authority: 468
  Art Scatter’s cup runneth over. Well, it’s not our cup, actually; it belongs to the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze in Florence, Italy. And that papery-looking swizzle stick inside? If researchers are correct, it’s the finger of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), the great astronomer, ...
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• Museum Finds Astronomer Galileo’s Lost Body Parts

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 586
  From BBC News Two fingers and a tooth belonging to famed astronomer Galileo Galilei have been found more than 100 years after going missing, a museum in Italy says. A collector bought the items, lost since 1905, at auction and gave them to Florence’s History of Science Museum. The museum said it had no doubt ...
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• Why do we refer to Galileo Galilei by his first name?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 648
  Why do we refer to Galileo Galilei by his first name? Seems unconventional.
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• Museum of the History of Science in Florence to Show Fingers, Tooth Said to be Galileos

  
  Les cahiers d'Alain Truong — Authority: 154
  In this image provided by Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze shows a finger attributed to Galileo Galilei. A Florence museum says, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009, two fingers and a tooth believed to belong to Galileo Galilei have been found and will go on display next spring. AP Photo/Istituto e Museo di ...
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• Misteri fiorentini: dopo cento anni ritrovati due dita e un dente di Galileo

  
  DaringToDo.com — Authority: 145
  Hanno tutto il valore simbolico delle reliquie, reliquie laiche, le due dita e il dente di Galileo Galilei ritrovati a Firenze da un anonimo collezionista. Asportati dalla salma nel 1737 durante la traslazione nella basilica di Santa Croce, erano scomparse da oltre un secolo, poi la fortunata scoperta, confermata da ...
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• IRONY SENSED AS GLOBAL WARMINISTAS TWIST ON THE FICKLE FINGER OF FATE

  
  Theo Spark — Authority: 645
  Anybody who doesnt know whats going on here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . check STORMBRINGER Sorry Theo - I couldnt resist that headline . . . . . . . . Linnane Sends
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• Galileo’s lost fingers, tooth found

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  London, Nov 21 (ANI): Father of astronomy Galileo Galilei’s missing fingers and a tooth have been found again.Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Museum of the History of Science, has said that admirers removed three fingers, a vertebra and a tooth from his corpse in a Florentine basilica 1737.Ninety-five years after ...
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• Galileos (other) Finger, Tooth, and Thumb Have Been Found

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 790
  It’s been a long and undoubtedly strange journey for Galileo Galilei’s various body parts.  Some of you will recall that when his body was reinterred in 1737,  his middle finger was removed , along with several other body parts.  The finger and a vertebra have been stored (and displayed) in museums in Florence ...
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• World Briefing | Europe: Italy: Galileo’s Body Parts to Be on Display

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei’s corpse in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, a Florence museum said Friday.
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• Galileos missing fingers found

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galileis corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century have been found again.
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• Museum: Galileo’s fingers, tooth are found (AP)

  
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  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, a Florence museum said Friday. See original here: (AP)"> (AP)">Museum: Galileo’s fingers, tooth are found (AP)
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• Museum: Galileo’s fingers, tooth are found (AP)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 167
  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, a Florence museum said Friday. Go here to read the rest:  (AP)"> (AP)">Museum: Galileo’s fingers, tooth are found (AP)
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• Galileo’s fingers and a tooth found, Italian museum says

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 460
  Fingers and a tooth cut from the body of famed astronomer Galileo Galilei have been found, an Italian museum says. View original post here: Galileo’s fingers and a tooth found, Italian museum says
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• Inauguration of site of Galileo station at Kourou

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 615
  ESA PR 29-2009. The site of a ground station for Galileo, Europe’s global navigation satellite system, inside the Guiana Space Centre (CSG), near Kourou in French Guiana, was inaugurated on 19 November.The site, which was made available by France’s Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES), will play an ...
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• Galileo silenced again

  
  WesternFront America — Authority: 139
  Unfortunately, lessons learned 400 years ago have yet to be adopted where the Church of Anthro-Climatism is involved. Burning dissenters at the stake may no longer be an option – perhaps because it would send prodigious quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. However, many other ingenious punishments are ...
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• Eclipse Galileo in Ubuntu Karmic

  
  Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority: 165
  Whoohoo – upgraded to Karmic (ubuntu 9.10 (pronouced nine point ten not, one), and I can get the latest eclipse (3.51) by doing a… More here
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• 3 Million Tons of Extraterrestrial Ice Fishing

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 751
  At least three million tons of fishlike creatures could theoretically live and breathe on Europa , according to Professor Richard Greenberg of the University of Arizona in Tucson. Greenberg recently presented his findings to the Division for Planetary Sciences , American Astronomical Society ( PDF , Google quick ...
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