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  • 10/05/2022 at 23:16 #172744
    Avatar photoSir Able
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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61391848

    11/05/2022 at 10:57 #172761
    Avatar photoGuy Farrish
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    Interesting piece.

    The way the BBC reported the decision to just sample six remains suggests a missed opportunity though.

    Three English, two Netherlands (but with possible English descent – from isotope studies?) and one German. ‘As it was a mass grave and they all died under the same circumstances, a sample of six was sufficient’ apparently.

    It would have been nice to know if it was seventy nine English, one German and two Anglo-Dutch(?) or any other combination, and if any Scots, Welsh, Northern English, Irish, etc had sneaked in as well.

    I suppose another 76 tests would have cost a fair bit of money.

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