In 1940, three years after her disappearance, the historic aircraft group's website states, a British official "found a partial skeleton of a castaway on a remote part of the island, " along with evidence of a "campfire, animal bones, a box that had once contained a sextant" and remnants of a man's and a woman's shoes.

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There are 16 skeleton tracks in the world, one of which is part of the U.S. Olympics Sports Complex in Lake Placid, N.

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On June 17, Christie's will hold a two-part auction of pocket watches and wristwatches, as well as so-called skeleton, mystery and novelty clocks at Rockefeller Center.

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As part of his plea agrement the defendant, Eric Prokopi, agreed to forfeit the bataar skeleton, as well four other dinosaur skeletons.

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