Word: 18th
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...office is filled with ancient artifacts from his excavations in the Middle East, framed manuscripts and flyers, shards of 18th and 19th century pottery from Harvard Yard, and portraits of past colleagues...
Charles' future is constrained by two pieces of 18th century legislation: the 1701 Act of Settlement, which requires the heir not to be or to marry a Roman Catholic (no problem, since Parker-Bowles is not, though she was married to one), and the 1772 Royal Marriages Act, which allows the heir to marry only with permission of the sovereign, or, if the heir is older than 25, to declare his intention to marry and go ahead only if both houses of Parliament have not objected after 12 months...
...further when influential Kansas moderate Nancy Landon Kassebaum announced she would retire next year to pursue "the challenge of being a grandmother." She becomes the 10th Senator, and the second Republican, to leave office in 1996. In the House, Indiana Democrat Andrew Jacobs announced he would step down, the 18th Representative and 15th Democrat...
...Australia's Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research, "but the prediction is that they never will." Deacon speculates that this "wimpy" HIV may even be a natural inoculant that protects its carriers against more virulent strains of the virus, much as infection with cowpox warded off smallpox in 18th century milkmaids...
GYPSIES HAVE TRADITIONALLY been the untouchables of Europe, lowest of the low. In medieval Romania, a Gypsy could be bought and sold as chattel, often for the price of a pig. In 18th century Prussia, Gypsies over 18 could be hanged without trial solely on the ground that their itinerant life-style was illegal. The Nazis targeted Gypsies for elimination as congenitally criminal, and more than 500,000 died in Hitler's death camps...