After Emily hit upon the fossil with a spade, her father and palaeontologist Dr Neville Hollingworth helped her dig out the block of mudstone the 162.8 million-year-old object, which had spikes to ward off predators, was encased in.

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They are 'treasure trove' because any silver object more than 300 years old is automatically in that category.

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But this also made him the object of suspicion by the old Catholic families, who traditionally manned France's officer class.

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One suspects those who object to ID for voting would also object to a PIN requirement, given that old people frequently have memory problems.

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"Money is no object, " says 18-year-old Jacob Falwell of Murray, Ky.

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Old beet-face Roger Smith, that handy villain of Roger and Me and object of Ross Perot's boardroom tantrums, is about to be vindicated.

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For some on the right, who object even to the idea of a federal income tax, the mandate is an old fight reborn.

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But if money is no object, you might consider a more adventurous choice of lodging like, say, an old Boeing 727.

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In theory, when someone unearths anything over 300 years old, he is supposed to contact the Directorate-General of Antiquities, which has three months to examine the object or site before deciding whether to commandeer it.

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Akin to MUJAM in its celebration of Mexican products, the Museo del Objeto del Objeto (the Museum of the Purpose of the Object) is a collection of more than 30, 000 quotidian objects, some more than two centuries old.

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