Word: historicized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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White smoke was still billowing Tom the makeshift Sistine Chapel chimney when Pericle Cardinal Felici stepped out on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica. After the first wisp of smoke had appeared, signifying election of a new Pope, crowds streaming toward the historic square had snarled every street...
Leakey devotes a large portion of The People of the Lake to explaining why the line of hominids leading to the evolution of man survived while the Australopithecene line died out. He argues that at some point our hominid line developed a complex economic system of gathering and hunting that...
Four days later, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) convenes for the first time this year around a huge, finely-crafted wooden table in University Hall's historic Faculty Room. Former presidents and deans stare steadfastly from their places on the wall.
Sadat is wholeheartedly committed to the negotiations that are scheduled to begin in Washington this Thursday. In fulfillment of the Camp David pledges, Israeli and Egyptian delegations will convene for talks that could lead to a full-fledged peace treaty between the two adversaries by the end of the year...
DIED. Franklin Alton Wade, 75, geologist on Admiral Richard Byrd's two historic Antarctic expeditions in the 1930s; in Lubbock, Texas. Wade narrowly escaped falling into a crevasse and endured serious frostbite while charting the geological history of Antarctica. Describing the latter calamity, Byrd wrote, "Wade was certainly a...