Word: grottos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Until recently the Continent's most ancient inhabited site was thought to be Czechoslovakia's Stranska Skala Grotto, where archaeologists have found tools that are some 700,000 years old. Now Prehistorian Henry de Lumley is convinced that manlike creatures lived and worked in the Riviera cave at least 1 million years...
Glacial Age. De Lumley, a Marseille University professor, who with his archaeologist wife Marie-Antoinette has been excavating the grotto for a dozen years, bases his estimate on paleomagnetic dating of the clay in which traces of ancient man were found. During a period of warmer temperatures some 1½ million years ago, De Lumley believes, the waters of the Mediterranean rose and waves battered the hillside, enlarging the limestone grotto, and 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...
...Satanist priest, a memmber of the Council of Nine and editor of La Vey's "confidential" newsletter, the Cloven Hoof. He is also the author of a widely used ROTC textbook. Other La Vey Satanists include a Marine Corps N.C.O. from North Carolina and, in New Jersey's Lilith Grotto, a real estate broker and an insurance executive. Beyond such devotees, La Vey's sinister balderdash reaches hundreds of thousands more through the black gospel of The Satanic Bible and his second book, The Compleat Witch, in which his advice reaches the downright sordid...
...dollar 300-car garage that Incumbent Mayor Justin Lacaze planned to build a stone's throw from the site of Bernadette's vision. If he were removed from office, Lacaze threatened, ecclesiastical authorities might build a parking lot in a meadow on the other side of the grotto, enabling pilgrims to park, pray and go away without even passing through Lourdes (pop. 18,000). But townsfolk failed to fall for that and for the first time in history voted in an anticlerical Radical Socialist Francois Abadie, who opposed building a garage anywhere...