The 1, 400-person town of Nederland gained worldwide notoriety in 1994 when local authorities discovered the body of Norwegian Bredo Morstoel packed in a steel coffin filled with dry ice.

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Celebrated each March in the mountain town of Nederland, Colorado (15 miles west of Boulder), this weekend-long party all started with a cryogenically frozen body and a bizarre set of circumstances to match.

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An incoming anti-ship missile detected even a dozen miles away can be safely shot down only by a robot, says Frank Biemans, head of sensing technologies for the Goalkeeper automatic ship-defence cannons made by Thales Nederland.

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Rather than hide their skeleton in the closet, the city of Nederland chose to introduce the world to "Grandpa Bredo" (as he is affectionately known) with their midwinter festival, this year held March 4 through 6.

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Morsteol's daughter and grandson had him frozen after his death in Norway in 1989 and shipped the body to an LA-based cryogenic facility, before moving it to Nederland in 1993 in hopes of starting their own cryonic facility.

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