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Ten Thousand Years

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Skull and Crossbones Symbols

The skull and crossbones came to be associated with danger and death around the world, but it didn't become universal. The original meaning as it pertained to adam and the resurrection is long gone. John says there are two things that seem to be universal in human art: stick figures and sequence of events.

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