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26 Jan 2011 13:56

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World: This week in Italian quiz show host exhumations

  • buried Prominent Italian quiz show host Mike Bongiorno, who died in 2009 and was laid to rest in Arona.
  • unburied Italian officials reported Tuesday that Bongiorno’s body was stolen from its grave. source

16 Oct 2009 21:36

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World: He was an exhumed Spanish poet, and he didn’t even know it

  • Federico Garcia Lorca will be exhumed from a Spanish mass grave. After years of fighting through the legal system, the last hurdle has been cleared and one of Spain’s greatest poets could be given a proper burial. Lorca, who was executed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, has likely been sitting in the mass grave for over 70 years. source