Word: northerner
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Ongoing. "The Hall of the Northern American Indian...
...quickly. Within a mere 5,000 years-barely the blink of an eye on paleontological time scales-the work of early artists popped up in several corners of the globe. Archaeologists have found more than 10,000 sculpted and engraved objects in hundreds of locations across Europe, southern Africa, northern Asia and Australia. The styles range from realistic to abstract, and the materials include stone, bone, antler, ivory, wood, paint, teeth, claws, shells and clay that have been carved, sculpted and painted to represent animals, plants, geometric forms, landscape features and human beings-virtually every medium and every kind...
...British-Irish talks trembled after the Times of London published excerpts of a leaked draft of the ``framework document'' intended to serve as a guideline for peace negotiations among all parties in the Northern Ireland conflict. The Protestant Ulster politicans threatened to pull out of negotiations and possibly bring down Prime Minister Major's government. The draft proposes the establishment of joint institutions between Ireland and the North to work on common interests such as agriculture and tourism. This raised fears among the province's Protestant majority that such cross-border bodies might lead to the formation of a united...
...most extensive overflows hit France, where flooding to one degree or another occurred across almost all of the country's northern half. The Meuse, or Maas to German and Dutch speakers, topped off at 6.15 m above its normal level and spread in some places 3 to 4 km beyond its banks in the waterlogged Ardennes. At least 3,000 houses were inundated in Charleville-Mezieres, the site of widespread damage just 13 months ago. Citizens passing a bronze plaque defining the 1993 high-water level watched the Meuse gradually reach and swallow the marker last week...
...took in streams of animals, from household pets to ponies, donkeys, pheasants and kangaroos. Custodian Peter van der Eijk reported wearily, ``We're high and dry here, but we're completely full.'' Attic rooms, church lofts and the second floors of still busy taverns up and down northern Europe's waterways were feeling more than crowded as well. Ouwehands' zoo keepers had a relatively simple time. At least the animals were not busy passing the blame...