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Chris Stokes@nisaccom.bsky.social |
It put me in mind of that cargo of 180,000 mummified cats imported to Liverpool in 1890 for fertilizing the fields of England.
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New-Cleckit Dominie
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I'd not come across that! I vaguely recall a rather horrifying story in RA Bagnold's memoirs about Nile steamboats using mummies as fuel, with cries of "throw another pharaoh on the flames!" but I'm sceptical given that a similar story seems to be a Mark Twain wind-up...
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