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Ahoy! Tis time to talk pirate, me hearties

By Jessica Ravitz

(CNN) -- Easy tip number one, if you want to talk like a pirate: Add "me hearties" to the end of any sentence. The meaning is simple -- "my friends, my mates" -- said John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur, before offering as way of example, "Turn your head and cough, me hearties. Or, fill it up with regular, me hearties."

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Tiny T. rex fossil discovery startles scientists

By Azadeh Ansari, CNN

(CNN) -- A pint-sized version of the Tyrannosaurus rex, with similarly powerful legs, razor-sharp teeth and tiny arms, roamed China some 125 million years ago, said scientists who remain startled by the discovery.

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The Patuxent's Hidden Treasure

Ralph Eshelman, who helped lead the recovery of the artifacts in 1980, aboard a pontoon boat Sept 5. on the upper Patuxent River near the site where the wreck was found. (Steve Vogel - The Washington Post )
By Steve Vogel Washington Post Staff Writer

Aboard a pontoon boat chugging past the marshland of Maryland's upper Patuxent River on a recent Saturday, Ralph Eshelman pointed to the spot where the muddy brown water hides a shipwreck nearly two centuries old, part of the American...

HISTORY BUFF IS PREPARING FOR CLEOPATRA'S DAUGHTER'S DEBUT

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I apologize to my loyal readers for not posting more stories recently. I promise that all of that will change next week after the debut of my third novel, Cleopatra's Daughter!!!!

The book comes out tomorrow, so you can only imagine the emails and phone calls bombarding my in-boxes recently (I have 241 unanswered emails at last count). Of course, I wouldn't have it any other way :]

For those of you who like contests and live in Plano Texas, Legacy Bookstore, a wonderful new Indie, is hosting a ...

Ancient bones seized, returned to China

by Josh Levs

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Fossilized bones of a saber-toothed cat and dinosaurs that may be 100 million years old are among "priceless" artifacts that the United States handed over to China in a ceremony Monday.

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Loo unflushed for 500 years is archeologists' goldmine

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Finds in the Paisley drain could be a rich source of history
by Simon Mundy

Archaeologists from Glasgow University yesterday began digging in the grounds of Paisley Abbey, hoping to shed light on life in a medieval Scottish monastery. The team, backed by volunteers from Renfrewshire Local History Forum, is carrying out a 12-day excavation of an ancient drain that lay undisturbed until its discovery in 1990.

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Bible-Era Mystery Vessel Found -- Code Stumps Experts

Andrew Curry for National Geographic News

<!--- startbody --> It didn't look like much at first, just a broken, mud-caked stone mug. But when archaeologists in Jerusalem cleaned the 2,000-year-old vessel, they discovered ten lines of mysterious script.<!--- deckend -->

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9/11

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I will never stop missing you, dad.

9/11

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Ancient synagogue found in Israel

By Kevin Flower

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- In what was slated to be the site of a new 122-room hotel, archaeologists say they have discovered one of the world's oldest synagogues in Northern Israel.

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