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Punch on: Open thread 28/07/2010

28 Jul 05:00am

Filed under: Kennewick Man, Open Thread

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Today in 1996 the prehistoric remains of a man believed to be Paleo-Indian was discovered in Washington, archaeologists named him the Kennewick Man.

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Peasant #3167 says:

08:31pm | 28/07/10

I don’t understand why, whenever I see a photo of a coal fired power station there is barely any smoke coming out of the smoke stacks. Even we I drove past one last year I could not see any smoke coming out. Whats the deal here? It seems the old… Read more »
Robert s McCormick says:

02:49pm | 28/07/10

With good reason many voters are very wary of Bob Brown & his Green Party. If we take their stated policies as fixed in stone, and we should remember they are the most inflexible ultra-left-wing, anti-business, mining, anti-employee organisation in Australia today, then they will cause untold tens of thousands… Read more »

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