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The position of the planets wa ...</p> <p class="search-info">Article - <a href="https://www.science20.com/profile/camillo_di_cicco" title="View user profile.">Camillo Di Cicco</a> - Dec 7 2012 - 7:53am</p> </dd> <dt class="title"> <a href="https://www.science20.com/scientist/medicine_templars">The Medicine Of The Templars</a> </dt> <dd> <p class="search-snippet">At Paris, 18 March of 1314, on the island of the Seine in front of the Garden real, Jacques de Molay, the last Great Master of the Templars, and Geoffroy de Charny, preceptor of Normandy, were burned as heretics. Thus finishes the history of the Knights of ...</p> <p class="search-info">Article - <a href="https://www.science20.com/profile/camillo_di_cicco" title="View user profile.">Camillo Di Cicco</a> - Mar 31 2010 - 8:36am</p> </dd> <dt class="title"> <a href="https://www.science20.com/recreational_number_theory/ancient_brain_surgery">Trepanation: The Legacy Of Ancient Brain Surgery</a> </dt> <dd> <p class="search-snippet"> If you read the medical news lately you may have seen a headline title Skeleton May Show Ancient Brain Surgery. This article was about an 1800 year old skeleton found in Veria, Greece. 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