It is our lot on this continent to forever be urged to forget the past when such a past is so near and is as tangible as a four year old's skull in a medical laboratory far from African lands.

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In 1995 a 14-year-old boy found a leopard skull in a river in Bodmin perhaps lending weight to the beast's existence and its demise.

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When a 14 year old boy found a big cat skull in a river in Bodmin Moor, it seemed certain to be proof the "Beast" was real.

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This skull, which is about 150, 000 years old, has a lesion which is indicative of concentrated blunt force trauma.

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In it the Martians really are little green men who quack like ducks and sport craniums that are a cross between a skull and the Mekon of Mekonta arch-villain of the old Dan Dare comic strip.

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Archaeologists have discovered a skull in Maba, in South China, which is over 150, 000 years old and may demonstrate the earliest known instance of human violence.

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The 15-year-old's brain swelled dangerously days after the shooting, so doctors in Pakistan extracted a section of her skull about the size of a hand.

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