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April 13, 2005
Into Ethiopian Air
Do you know how Lucy (the first standing human found) got her name? I had no idea, but John Auchard who just wrote a very interesting piece on Ethiopia for the Washington Post, explains that as the anthropologist brushed dirt off of the first bones, the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" was playing and so he named her Lucy...
You can read the Washington Post story on Ethiopia here.
Posted by insideoutmag at April 13, 2005 09:58 AM