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Until recently it was sadly neglected but it has risen like a phoenix from the ashes and now performs the role of an up-market gallery where you can buy excellent copies of museum pieces.
They now believe, says the paper, that the militiamen took pains to cover their tracks, in one case burning their victims' bodies and then dumping the ashes into crocodile-filled lakes, in another putting bodies in a boat and sinking it at sea.
McCourt is the pixie-faced, white-haired, thick-brogued raconteur who wrote Angela's Ashes , a Bildungsroman explaining how the bitterly poor son of an embittered drunk from Limerick, Ireland, became the kind of man who could write a witty, heartbreaking memoir about being the bitterly poor son of an embittered drunk, etc.
In 2004, Dr. Anunciada Colon presided over the opening of a golden trunk from the 16th century, containing ashes and bone fragments presumed to belong to her ancestor Christopher Columbus, an event chronicled by a television crew.
Remaining ashes and shards were inelegantly deposited on a metal storage shelf in a lab, in a Styrofoam picnic basket labeled “Colon” in black marker, awaiting better tests [3].