A short time ago, a test was given in some places.

不久前，在一些地方进行了一次测试。

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At first it was thought their remains had been stolen, but it appears that at least one body was in fact reburied some time ago.

最初，警方以为他们的一体被盗，但是后来发现至少一具尸体在前段时间重新埋葬。

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Palaeontologists in Georgia have unearthed remains of five primitive humans that date back to 1.8m years ago, suggesting some of our oldest ancestors lived in the region at the time.

格鲁吉亚的古生物学家已发现了五具原始人类的遗骸化石，其时间可追溯到180万年前，这表明人类的一些最古老的祖先当时生活在该地区。

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Only the deer's skeleton remained, suggesting it had been caught in the snare some time ago.

BBC: Deer skeleton

As I explained in a book I co-authored some time ago, in an environment like this bankers have grown up as abacus bankers, record keepers of money flows who derive income from seigniorage, from the passive creation of money through interest bearing-loans and government-backed securities rather than from true banking, and from active risk management.

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On the other hand, if this is all too close to home (my own 40th disappeared in the rear view mirror some time ago) we can take comfort in the fact that this research was carried out with civil servants and therefore may well not apply to human beings at all.

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