The large, lacy shell is edged with blush pink and its flavour is a revelation: sweet, oceanic, outrageously fresh, leaving in its wake a memory of the sea with subtle notes of hazelnut.

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He said the aim of putting two wreaths and 75 rose petals into the sea above the wreck was to keep the memory alive of those who had lost their lives.

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He carried the baton a bit farther by looking at the biochemical changes involved in the formation of memory first (because such experiments are unethical in people) in sea slugs, and then in mice.

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Wreaths in memory of the thousands who died on both sides in the conflict will be tossed into the sea on Monday morning as a final tribute.

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