Word: aix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cases, the grannies encounter outright luxury. Coffe tells of an 82-year-old woman placed - supposedly for two weeks - with a banker's family near Aix-en-Provence. "Not only was she met by a chauffeur-driven car and served by maids," says Coffe, "but when I phoned to find out how she was doing, she said she had taken her first plane ride and was planning to winter in Morocco with the family...
With the aid of a computer at the University of Aix-Marseille, De Lumley hopes eventually to index all of the valley's more than 200,000 engravings. That could help him to interpret the obscure symbols and learn more about the men who carved them. All that he will say now is that the valley "appears to have been a sacred place in the Bronze Age. But by the beginning of the first millennium (100 B.C.), its message was lost...
...Heinrich K. Erben of Bonn University's Institute of Paleontology bases his theory on a treasure trove of dinosaur eggs unearthed near Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. So many fossilized egg fragments were found there that Erben concluded that dinosaurs had used the site as a regular nesting place for thousands of years. Using a scanning electron microscope, he determined that the average thickness of the eggshells in the lower or older layers ranged from 1.7 to 2.6 mm., while the shells in the younger layers were only about half as thick. Such fragile eggs could easily become...