Hebrew U. Archeologists Find Patriarchs-Era Tablet

A document written on two cuneiform tablets around the time of the patriarch Abraham, containing a law code in a style and language similar to parts of the famous Code of Hammurabi, has been discovered for the first time in an Israeli archeological dig.

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Man finds neighbour is long-lost brother

TWO Canadian men, each given up for adoption at a young age, were separately searching for their biological families when they learned that all they had to do was walk across the street.

The two men were shocked to discover that they were brothers – and neighbours – the Canadian Press reported. The surprise came when one of the men, Tommy Larkin, was speaking with someone from the adoption agency about the identity of his brother. “She gave me his name and asked me four or five times if I knew him,” Mr Larkin told a local newspaper. “I said I didn’t and she kept asking me if I was sure I haven’t met him.” Then she gave him his newfound brother’s address.

“I am looking at the house right now,” he said.

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Happy Mondays to cast spell at Wizard Festival

The appy Mondays found fame in the 1980s

The Happy Mondays will appear at a music and arts festival in the north east of Scotland, it has been announced. The Manchester band, famous in the 1980s and 90s, will be a headline act on the second day of the annual Wizard Festival in New Deer on 28 August.  Festival director Roy Thain said: “The Happy Mondays have always been one of the top requests from Wizard fans.”  Acts that have previously played at the event include The Charlatans.

Amazing Grace leaves $7m for alma mater

Grace Groner lived through the Great Depression, so saving money was her expertise.

Nobody knew just how much she had saved until she died in January at age 100 and left $7 million to Lake Forest College, her alma mater.

“Oh, my God,” said Lake Forest College President Steve Schutt after finding out the amount.

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