SOMERTON MAN:
MYSTERY SOLVED?
SOMERTON MAN: MYSTERY SOLVED?
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DIVORCE NOTICE: THE AGE NEWSPAPER, MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 5 1951 PUBLIC DOMAIN PRE-1955
Man found deceased on Somerton Beach, Adelaide 1 Dec 1948
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Somerton Beach Somerton Man found at ‘X’
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Suitcase of Somerton Man found at Adelaide Railway Station.
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Scrap of paper from Somerton Man’s pocket from rare manuscript
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Handwritten code found in copy of manuscript belonging to Somerton Man
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Burial of Somerton Man
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Tombstone of Somerton Man
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Image of the plaster cast of the Somerton Man
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Burial site of the Somerton Man, West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide
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Fingerprints taken of the unidentified body of “Somerton Man” December 1948
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Title Page 1878
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Thread found with the unidentified body of “Somerton Man”
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Laundry tag found with the unidentified body of “Somerton Man”
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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING SUGGESTIONS
Dash, Mike “The Body on Somerton Beach” HISTORY. August 12, 2011. ACCESSED 1 Maarch 2022https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-body-on-somerton-beach-50795611/
“Inside the Tamam Shud Case and The Chilling Mystery of The Somerton Man” All That’s Interesting. 5 October 2021 Updated 18 October 2021 ACCESSED 10 March 2022. https://allthatsinteresting.com/tamam-shud-somerton-man
Keane, Daniel. “Somerton Man to be exhumed by police in attempt to solve mystery of his identity”. ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA. April 23, 2021. Updated 24 April 2021. ACCESSED 1 March 2022. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-24/mysterious-somerton-man-to-be-exhumed-by-sa-police/100092750
Keane, Daniel. “Unlocking the secrets of the Somerton Man”. ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA. 30 November 2018. ACCESSED 1 March 2022. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-01/will-the-mystery-of-the-somerton-man-ever-be-solved/10420794?nw=0&r=HtmlFragment
Keane, Daniel. “ ”Tamam Shud’ and the five other clues that have failed to solve the Somerton Man mystery”. ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA. 18 May 2021. ACCESSED 1 March 2022. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-19/six-clues-that-have-failed-to-solve-the-somerton-man-mystery/100148922
Whiteman, Hilary. “The Somerton Man died alone on a beach in 1948. Now Australian scientists are close to solving the mystery”.CNN.COM. Updated May 31, 2021. ACCESSED 10 March 2022. https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/31/australia/australia-somerton-man-mystery-intl-hnk-dst/index.html
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