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Old 05-02-08, 05:14 PM   #1
NEON DEON
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Default Civil war munition claims another life.

A Civil War collector dies when 140 year old cannon ball explodes.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080502/...lCuAZQ8ShH2ocA


"More than 140 years after Lee surrendered to Grant, the cannonball was still powerful enough to send a chunk of shrapnel through the front porch of a house a quarter-mile from White's home in this leafy Richmond suburb."
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