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...High on a cliff, in a cave about 50 ft. wide and 30 ft. deep, small groups sat talking by several fires. Children climbed a smooth rock and laughed as they slid down. One boy flew a pet butterfly on a string, like a kite. The floor of the cavern was regularly swept with branches, but no improvements had been made...
...operation named Project Rio Blanco, the AEC exploded three 30-kiloton devices that had been placed about 450 ft. apart in a vertical tube more than a mile underground near the hamlet of Meeker in western Colorado. The goal was to crack the surrounding sandstone and create a huge cavern into which the escaping gas could seep. But when the AEC and its private-industry collaborator. CER Geonuclear Corp. of Las Vegas, began test drilling at the site after the explosions, they made an embarrassing discovery. The blasts had apparently created three separate gas-filled caverns instead of one. Thus...
...people in the nearby Riviera town of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, the cavern is known as Le Trou du Tachou (the Badger's Hole). Hidden away on a Mediterranean hillside covered with olive trees and scrub oak, it was discovered in 1962 by a little girl looking for shiny stones for her collection. What subsequent explorers of the 16-ft. by 16-ft. grotto have found promises to be a great deal more significant: the habitat of the earliest known manlike creatures ever to dwell in Europe...
...leaving the various fossilized fish, mollusks and tiny marine organisms that have been found in the cave. About 1 million years ago, the sea retreated and a new glacial age swept over Europe. It was at this point that the first manlike creatures apparently took refuge in the cavern, which had escaped the encroaching...
...were delightful trifles, but at his best Dowland was capable of writing expressive, subtle, and profound laments that are among the glories of English music. Wilson's voice, pure and vibratoless, is ideal for Renaissance music. I was amazed at how well she projected the words in the vast cavern that is Sanders Theater...