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O.T.I.S.: Odd Things I've Seen Odd Things You Should Know for December 30, 2009

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Graceland Too, disappearing sea lions, and the filming locations of the highest grossing domestic movies of all time.
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Italian police have found a toy guitar sculpture created by Pablo Picasso for his daughter Paloma, which had been kept in a shoe box by a businessman.
Jim Moisson

Jim Moisson seen a burning bush once and a burning building on another occasion.

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O.T.I.S.: Odd Things I've Seen I know Christmas is over, but to cap off the O.T.I.S. search for Dead Santa, now he's apparently in Italy and Turkey wants him back. May your bones be this desirable.

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A Turkish archaeologist has called on his government to demand that Italy return the bones of St Nicholas to their original resting place.
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For reasons that are nobody's business but the Turks.
Tue at 8:55pm
Chris
Chris
"Dead Santa"??????? and I thought he was still alive, somewhere at the north pole!
Wed at 12:13am
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O.T.I.S.: Odd Things I've Seen Marine: “You will definitely see weird-ass lights up here at night.” Me: "I don't argue with marines."

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The Marines found the bone as they scraped a shallow trench. Long, dry and unmistakably once part of a human leg, it was followed by others. They reburied most of them but also found bodies. Three of the graves were close together; in another was a skeleton still wearing a pair of glasses. ...
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O.T.I.S.: Odd Things I've Seen Odd Things You Should Know to chase away the post-Christmas blues.

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The largest collection of Sherlock Holmes memorabilia in the world, the "Jim Henson's Fantastic World" exhibit, the company responsible for animatronic creatures found everywhere from Disneyland to Chuck E. Cheese, and the Robot Hut.
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O.T.I.S.: Odd Things I've Seen Some pics from our visit to the abbey ruins in Ireland where they say Father Christmas is buried.

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Some say that St. Nicholas, the man who inspired the story of Santa Claus, is buried there. Others say it's a myth...like Santa Claus himself. I didn't know about the story at the time, though, so we just generally wandered among the ruins like ghosts with no clue of its Christmas past.
Jim Retzer
Jim Retzer
SANTA CLAUS is DEAD?!?!?!?
December 20, 2009 at 8:58am
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If it's any consolation, I heard he went peacefully on earth and left a good will for man.
December 20, 2009 at 2:16pm
Elizabeth Link
December 21, 2009 at 3:19pm
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O.T.I.S.: Odd Things I've Seen Earth is not meant for us.

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Scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NOAA have recorded the deepest erupting volcano yet discovered--West Mata Volcano--describing high-definition video of the undersea eruption as "spectacular."
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O.T.I.S.: Odd Things I've Seen Much thanks to Michelle over at Massachusetts General Hospital for touring me around MGH's Ether Dome, one of Boston's hidden jewels.

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19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!. The Ether Dome is located in Boston, Massachusetts
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O.T.I.S.: Odd Things I've Seen St. Nicholas buried in Jerpoint Abbey in Ireland? I've actually been to that abbey but didn't know about this. Will post pics of my visit later.

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The remains of St Nicholas, the man who inspired Father Christmas, are buried at Jerpoint Abbey in County Kilkenny, Ireland, historians believe.
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You guys get all the cool corpses...
December 14, 2009 at 3:17pm
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O.T.I.S.: Odd Things I've Seen I'm visiting this place early next month.

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For half a century, my friend Loren Coleman has been obsessed with unusual animals, many of which may not exist at all. Loren is a cryptozoologist. He studies hidden and unknown animals, and the mythology, urban legends, folklore, and culture surrounding them. ...
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O.T.I.S.: Odd Things I've Seen Finally picked up a bottle of Dan Aykroyd's Crystal Head vodka in the glass skull decanter. Pretty cool. Relates back to when I wrote about getting his autograph on a bottle of his wine: http://bit.ly/934yIR

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O.T.I.S.: Odd Things I've Seen One of the most astounding places on/in the planet (I assume)...

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The Iron Ammonite - Photography, Film & Travel of Paul Williams age 30 1/4
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