Posted by: BKMailo October 31, 2007
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Museum shows 116-year-old orange
A dried-up orange from the lunchbox of a miner fatally injured on the day he was due to eat it has gone on display in a Staffordshire museum.
The fruit belonged to Joseph Roberts who was injured in an explosion at a Stoke-on-Trent colliery in 1891.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/7068974.stm