Sunday, June 27, 2010

The pick of the locks

ByView Published: 7:55PM GMT 04 March 2010

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A close of Napoleons hair has been found in a Sydney bank vault. At least, an concomitant note says it is Napoleons. Confirmation awaits DNA testing, a apparatus not accessible to 19th-century collectors. In life, Napoleon had no good supply of hair. Its post-mortem proliferation reflects a enterprise by a sure kind of chairman to retain a little tie with his captivating fame.

If the Victorians had a thing about hair creation brooches of their lovers curls and treasuring thatch from the over maybe we are returning to such corpse as mementoes in an ephemeral age. Nobody right away seems to keep photographs; their digital refuge is evanescent. A close from babys initial haircut stays a commemoration some-more changed than any Napoleonic tuft, and utterly as rare.

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