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Sabbatical Stories 4: Professor Francis Thackeray

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A renowned paleoanthropologist and a first cousin (9 times removed) of William Shakespeare. Who better then to investigate some pipes that were unearthed in The Bard’s garden at Stratford-Upon-Avon. Were they Shakespeare’s? Did he smoke? And, if so, did he smoke what the residue of those pipes contained?
31 Oct English South Africa Places & Travel · Personal Journals

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