Word: sixteenths
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...Price-Bullington is the longest running independent collegiate tournament in the country, and is an invitation-only affair. Fifteen of the top collegiate players in the country are invited to compete, and a sixteenth player earns a spot by winning a qualifying event locally in Virginia. Currently, Harvard’s top three players are Broadbent, junior James Bullock and Patterson, respectively, but Bullock was unable to attend due to an academic commitment...
...case that has haunted Birmingham, Ala. and is credited with awakening the nation to the savagery of the civil rights struggle in the South finally came to an end. Former Ku Klux Klansman Cherry, 71, was found guilty of four counts of murder in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in 1963 that killed four young girls...
...Frank Sikora covered the civil rights movement in Birmingham and is the author of the 1991 book "Until Justice Rolls Down" which chronicled the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, and "Selma, Lord, Selma," a verbal history of the civil rights struggle in that Alabama city...
This most recent conflicts in India stems from one small piece of land in Ayodhya. Originally, a Hindu temple to the God Rama was built there, but in the sixteenth century, Muslims tore down the temple and replaced it with a mosque. This mosque was left standing until a decade ago, when Hindus tore down the mosque, leading to riots in which 2,000 people died. The issue comes down to who should have a house of worship on this land...
...about theory. I should write one on patterns in the history of life.” Gould also hopes to tackle the construction of his own profession, having built up an impressive antiquarian book collection on the early history of paleontology, which he calls “a sixteenth- to eighteenth-century phenomenon...