Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 08, 2008

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Scientists exhumed British diplomat Sir Mark Sykes (1879-1919), nearly 90 years after he died from the pandemic Spanish Flu, hoping to find and study the virus that killed him! An earthquake cracked a 14 century BC statue of Amenophis III in Thebes, Egypt, creating singing and whispering noises when the wind blew! Greeks and Romans, including emperors, consulted the statue for centuries until repairs silenced it. The voting age is 16 in Austria, Brazil, Cuba and Nicaragua!