The remains of German billionaire Friedrich Karl Flick have apparently been stolen for ransom, on the same day that the skeleton of famed astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was identified.
The thieves who made off with Flick’s body in Austria somehow managed to get through the solid granite slabs that surrounded his remains before carting off a solid-zinc coffin weighing more than 200kg (440lbs).
Not far away in Warsaw, Poland, it was determined that a skeleton found in an abandoned cathedral three years ago happened to belong to the great Copernicus himself, who in addition to being the first person to scientifically argue that the Earth revolves around the Sun, was also an accomplished mathematician, physician, classical scholar, translator, Catholic cleric, jurist, governor, military leader, diplomat and economist.
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