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...Rajewski speculates that the village was built on its island at a time when northern Poland had a fairly warm and dry climate. About 500 B.C. the climate got colder and wetter, and the lake's level rose. For a while the villagers tried to keep pace, raising the level of their houses and streets. Eventually they gave up, and abandoned their houses to the rising water...
...Crusaders against alcoholism (some teetotalers, some devotees of moderate drinking) gathered in Istanbul, sadly concluded that with few exceptions, such as Italy and India, most of the world's nations are getting wetter. Chief offenders: France (accused of boosting alcohol consumption in her African colonies by dumping surplus wines and brandy there) and the U.S., with a 44% increase in alcoholism in 13 years, and a rise in beer consumption from 8 to 16½ gallons a year per capita since...
That was a sobering week for undergraduate enthusiasts, but on an even wetter Saturday the Crimson front wall pushed Columbia all over Baker's Field, and the score was 21-7 Harvard. But then the luck of Jordan ran out. Dartmouth upset the varsity 14-9, and on a beautiful Saturday in late October a very poor Bucknell eleven scored three times in the third period, was robbed of two downs by an absent-minded referee, and tied the varsity...
Later the climate grew wetter, and the rivers cleared the shallow sea of its heavy brine. Some of the salt on the bottom probably dissolved, but the rest was protected by sediment washed down from the land. As the sediment grew thicker, it pressed on the underlying salt, and the salt (comparatively light and plastic) billowed up through it like slow-motion bubbles rising in a viscous liquid...
...lowest layer of dirt was laid down considerably more than 4,000 years ago, the people who sheltered in the cave were simple hunters. They lived on wild plants and game, which they killed with crude spears. Fishing equipment (nets and wooden harpoons) suggests that the climate was wetter then, and that Little Hell Canyon may have contained a lake...