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None of these happenings was supernatural. The village and its fields stand on a thin crust of soft clay over a vast labyrinth of caves and tunnels some 30 miles long where, since Roman times, men have undermined their homes by quarrying out the sandstone to build them. The quarries, abandoned in the 1900s, were put to new use in 1918 when Willem Heynen and other villagers discovered that the cave galleries had the ideal temperature and humidity for growing mushrooms...
...Clark University, Worcester, Mass., offered a new theory. At the Washington meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he argued that the glacier did not retreat, but stayed in place so long that its enormous weight pushed a giant dimple in the earth's crust. When the glacier finally began to recede, the dimple filled with water and became an inland...
When the glacier finally drew back toward Canada (about 23,000 B.C.), the unburdened crust began to recover, and the dimple flattened out. Ohio, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin rose out of the Leverett Sea. The broad estuary that led to the Gulf shrank to form the modern Mississippi...
...thin, thin crust of laughter, mockery...
...English Heritage." Without changing clothes, he sped off from the welcoming ceremonies in Victoria Station to address a luncheon meeting of the upper-crust Pilgrims Society at the Savoy, got a nice introduction from the Pilgrims' Toastmaster Lord Birkett as "a product of that great American tradition that the village boy can rise to high office, [and] has invested the office of Vice President with higher importance and greater prestige than it has ever enjoyed." Nixon in turn made his tribute to Britain: "Every time an American citizen acts politically within the democratic context, we reflect our English heritage...