Dr. Phillipe Charlier is the most famous forensic scientist in France, where, apparently, they have a most famous forensic scientist. Dr. Charlier came to prominence in 2007, when he led a team of researchers in an investigation of bone fragments said to belong to Jeanne d'Arc, which is French for Jeannie Dark, which is often translated in English as Joan of Arc. The team exposed the relics as fakes, consisting not of the remains of a psychotic French teenager but of "a human rib, bits of apparently carbonized wood, a fragment of linen and a cat femur."
Has anyone considered that the human rib may, in fact, have belonged to Joan of Arc and that she was eaten by a cat? Or that Joan of Arc may simply have been a cat herself? Really, that story would make a helluva lot more sense than the other one about some adolescent hearing the voice of God and leading French armies to victory.
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Tomorrow, Andy Murray becomes the first Briton in 73 years to compete for the men's championship at Wimbledon. In order to become the first Brit to win Wimbledon since 1936, all he has to do is defeat the six-time champion and arguably greatest player in history, Roger Federer. All of England will be watching. No pressure, though.
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Today, on my way to the supermarket, I passed a martial arts studio. The doors were open and from within, blasting from the stereo as the assembled students practiced, was "Eye of the Tiger." Do people have no sense of irony?
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