Appearing from some angles like a blocky citadel, from others like a strange gray galleon, the museum has an air of the uncanny, as do many of Amateur's projects.

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"At very low angles, we think that some water-ice from the comet would remain intact as a liquid puddle concentrated with organic molecules, ideal for the development of life, " Blank said.

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Death subjected a few of those men to the rancid ingenuity of Gardner, who staged some battlefield photographs by moving bodies around and who could blithely identify the same ones, snapped from different angles, as Confederate or Union.

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