18th century mechanical priests and the BBC necromancy department

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From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/guernsey/7866103.stm:

he raised two extremely rare bronze canons, measuring 12ft (3.6m) and weighing four tonnes, which could only have belonged to the British man-of-war.

I'd not realized we'd deployed robot priests against the French prior to the Napoleonic wars.

[the Admiral's] ancestor Sir Robert Balchin said: "A piece of my family history and of national history has come alive."

...I'd also not realized that the BBC were able to interview people who'd been dead for centuries. (Unless Sir Robert has lived several times his three score and ten, that is.)

(They've fixed both mistakes now. But I saved a copy of the more amusing version.)

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The time machine required to bring the ancestor to the present cost so much that they couldn't afford the full complement of "n"s...