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Franciscan Files Tell Abuse Story
yahoo.com 4 days, 14 hours agoRobert Van Handel was a 15-year-old seminarian at St. Anthony's, a prestigious Franciscan boarding school, when, he said, a priest slipped into the infirmary where he was recovering from a fever and began to molest him. The priest told him it would help draw the fever out.
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DNA Study Seeks Origin Of Appalachia's Melungeons
msnbc.com 2 days, 17 hours agoFor years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once known derisively as the Melungeons. Some speculated they were descended from Portuguese explorers, or perhaps from Turkish slaves or Gypsies.


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