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Similar sequences of conception and storm produce babies with cleft palates in Maine, babies with uncompleted spines (spina bifida) in Vermont, babies with genital defects in the U. S. Northwest...
...Casson, Oxford (New College) don, dug down 25 feet to the original arena level of the Byzantine Hippodrome, begun in the 2nd Century A. D. and completed in 330 by Constantine the Great. They were rewarded by Byzantine ceramics, early Turkish faience and discovery of the fact that the "spina" of ancient hippodromes was not always a wall running down the centre of the arena. In Constantino's hippodrome, at least, the "spina" was replaced by a wall of separated monuments. Among these were a 50-foot Egyptian obelisk originally 94 feet high and a column bearing a beheaded bronze...