Word: rh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reverse vaccination" at the time of a woman's first delivery to ward off future Rh incompatability crises...
...prehistoric village unearthed on the site. Last year he halted construction of an important urban-renewal project in downtown Marseille and unleashed the archaeologists when power shovels uncovered massive fortifications built by Greeks during the 6th century B.C. Malraux has now struck again, using his influence to prevent the Rhône River town of Vienne from building a secondary school over what may well be the most important Roman ruins ever discovered in France...
Unseemly Haste. Alarmed last year when ten acres of farm land across the Rhône from Vienne was acquired for the badly needed school, Archaeologists Serge Tourrenc and Marcel Le Glay quietly began to probe beneath a peach orchard, suspecting that it covered ancient ruins of Roman Vienne. Three feet beneath the surface, on their first try, they found a colorful Roman mosaic. They alerted Malraux, then, with his support, proceeded to excavate five acres of the orchard with almost unseemly haste, hoping to prove the historical value of the site before the townspeople of Vienne could realize that...
...dyeing factory, a highway and complex sewer and heating systems, all of which confirmed that Vienne was once a thriving Roman colony. Wealthy citizens decorated their homes with multicolored mosaics, 15 different kinds of marble, elaborate basins and fishponds. Because the town was often threatened by the flooding Rhône, there were drainage ditches six feet deep between each villa. To protect salt and wheat stored in villa storerooms from dampness, Vienne's architects partially buried between 50 and 60 empty olive jars upside down in the earth beneath the rooms. Thus infiltrating waters would trap...
Most of the characteristics that distinguish the Basques of Spain are mysterious. In vain, linguists have studied their tongue-trilling language, still spoken by a million Basques, for similarity to any other recorded speech. Medical researchers are still at a loss to explain why proportionately more Basques carry the Rh-negative blood factor than any other people. But since the days of ancient Rome, anyone who tried to subjugate the people of Euzkadi, or Basque Land, has quickly learned one fact about them: the Basques want to govern themselves. Finally brought under Spanish and French domination in the 19th century...