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While the ancient ----------- may be the best-known mummy makers, they were far from the first. A very sophisticated fishing tribe called the Chinchoros, who lived on the north coast of what is now Chile, were embalming their dead as early as 5000 B.C.?

While the world was busy welcoming the arrival of the twentieth century on December 31, 1900, a forceful gale on England's Salisbury Plain blew over one of the ancient monumental stones at ---------------?

After the U.S. Civil War, Iowa was the first state to give the vote to -----------------.?

------------------ became the first woman to receive a diamond engagement ring. It was given to her by Maximilian I of Germany in 1477.?

At funerals in ancient ------, when the lid of the coffin was closed, mourners took a few steps backward lest their shadows get caught in the box.?