Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Attracted by this bizarre landscape, some of the first Christians in Anatolia came here to practice their religion in seclusion. They must have been gratified by the ease with which the soft stone could be hollowed out, for they fashioned homes for themselves in the rocks. Later, in the seventh and eighth centuries, they were joined by great numbers of Byzantines seeking refuge from their Arab brethren. Invasions were nothing new to Anatolia. From the days of the Hittites, Hurrites, and Assyrians, its history is a colorful, if rather repetitive, tale of conquerors surging from west to east, and from...
Harvard fours, including two boats made up by splitting the undefeated eight that conquered Henley last July, secured fourth, fifth, and seventh places in a race won by the U.S. Olympic four from Vesper. The lead lightweight fours grabbed third in a contest in which the difference between that place and the sixth was .6 seconds...
Vesper triumphed in the women's eights, a class which encompassed 40 shells, while the Radcliffe boat trailed, finishing a distant seventh...
...FORTY-SEVENTH STREET between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in New York, known in the city as the diamond district, is just about the single most Jewish street imaginable, Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Boulevard not excepted. How does the idea of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminal, the notorious "White Angel" of Auschwitz, strolling down this street, stopping into stores and having his diamonds appraised, appeal to you? Suppose you then discovered that he had extracted these diamonds from doomed Jews in return for granting them their freedom, and then had dispatched them to their deaths. And what...
Freshman Mleczko took care of the scoring in the first half, notching her seventh and eighth goals of the year. By the end of the game, she had personally accounted for half of the team's scoring total...