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Letter: For the record – 06 July 2019

Published 3 July 2019

• UK TV sports presenter Dickie Davis is 86 (Almost the last word, 15 June).

• Several archaeological sites in Turkey are called Yazılıkaya (“inscribed rock”): for a photo of the one with a possible Hittite calendar, see bit.ly/NS-Hittite (22 June, p 8).

• Human rights charity the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China set up a China Tribunal to consider evidence of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience (22 June, p 6).

• Foiled again: the toast notifier switch is made with kitchen foil (How to be a Maker, 18 May).

Issue no. 3237 published 6 July 2019

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