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HT to Bob Cargill<\/a> for sharing this entertaining song by They Might Be Giants entitled \u201cThe Mesopotamians.\u201d Click through and read the entertaining story of how he found out about it.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/jAMRTGv82Zo?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0<\/p>\n

(If you are more interested in science than ancient history, they also have a song about Paleontologists<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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