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An online casino has a piece of Capt. Kirk. Actor William Shatner has sold his kidney stone for $25,000, with the money going to a housing charity, it was announced Tuesday. Shatner reached agreement Monday to sell the stone to GoldenPalace.com.

Shatner Sells Kidney Stone for Charity

The introduction to Jonathan Wright's history of the Jesuits, God's Soldiers starts with this sentence:

In 1554, so the story goes, a Portuguese noble-woman bit the fifth toe off the right foot of Francis Xavier's corpse.

I wonder where that puts us. At least the "noble-woman" waited until Xavier was dead before she began to harvest his body parts.