Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would land somewhere. Edward A. Wuichet of the Dayton Chamber of Commerce, walking below in the summer darkness was startled to hear a voice from the sky say: "Hello below ? Hey, down there?" The most peculiar conversation passed in the dark till the aviator landed on a 100-foot cliff, with scarcely a bump. When his plane came down in a crash it was immediately enveloped in flames. Crowds stood about in morbid curosity and horrified anxiety, helpless to extricate the man they thought buried beneath the wreckage, when Macready suddenly walked among them...
...high cliff overlooking the trade route he discovered a Buddhist chapel dating back to the 5th century A. D. British and French expeditions which were active in China before the war had failed to discover this chapel. It is, with one exception, the westernmost example of North Wei culture. More of its origin Mr, Warner believes can be determined by the interpretation by other authorities at Harvard of a stone slab found nearby and which he brought back with...
...chapel", he said, "is carved out of the rock cliff. It is about 40 feet square and every inch of the walls is carved with Buddhist figures. In the center there is a natural rock pillar which supports the chapel, on which are carved large elephant heads facing the four corners of the earth. As the elephant is not a native animal to China, Indian or Buddhist influences were firmly entrenched in China in the 5th century...
...Salmon River country, south of Lewiston, Idaho, a skeleton of a woman more than eight feet in height was discovered in a cliff. This also seemed to belong to an herbivorous race. Scientists are reserved in their judgment until it has been examined by Smithsonian experts...
...tomb of Chateaubriand, famed philosopher whose name is identical with that of the only passable French imitation of a beefsteak, is endangered by the wild Atlantic surges. His grave is on the cliffs facing the sea on the Island of Grand Bey, off St. Malo. Winter storms have cut under the cliff, and the tomb may have to be moved further back...