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10/14/2010: Bloody Gourd May Contain Beheaded King's DNA


Lending new life to the demise of Louis XVI, scientists performed a battery of DNA tests on dried blood from inside a decorative gunpowder gourd.  The results show the blood belonged to a blue-eyed male from the correct time period.  Click here to read more in the article at Wired Science.

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