“There was something strangely touching about her fingertips,” author Chip Brown noted in his impression of the 2,500-year-old mummy of Hatshepsut in our 2009 article on the ancient Egyptian queen.

Pull tabs, legal in Minnesota and a few other states, have been a cherished Midwestern tradition for nearly 50 years.

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