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Cairo - A children's choir and a military band greeted the return Sunday of what scholars believe is a royal mummy - possibly Ramses I - that was looted from a tomb and smuggled out of Egypt by a Canadian doctor nearly 150 years ago. The Michael Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta, which bought the mummy three years ago from a museum in Niagara Falls, Ont., returned the relic after determining it may be the founder of the 19th Dynasty and grandfather of Ramses II. "Welcome Ramses, the builder of esteemed Egypt," a children's chorus sang as the box containing the mummy was brought into the Egyptian Museum. The mummy was taken, along with other artifacts from the tomb of Ramses I in Egypt's Valley of Kings. San Bernardino, Calif. - Powerful Santa Ana winds kicked up before dawn Sunday, driving two ferocious firestorms that had burned more than 300 homes into dozens more houses in the San Bernardino suburbs and forcing thousands of residents to flee. Another wildfire, farther south in San Diego County, was blamed in the deaths of two people who became trapped in a car as they tried to escape the flames. Tokyo - Police arrested a man for stealing shoes at a southern Japanese hospital, then found a collection in his home of 440 women's shoes - all for the left foot. It was not clear why he seemed to prefer the left foot.
