Word: interceptions
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...read in Pliny Major's "Natural History," of a certain race of men called Skiapodae,-so named because, when oppressed by the heat of the sun, they could, by virtue of the construction of their feet, bestowed upon them by nature, fertile in expedients, lie on their backs and intercept completely the rays of the far darter,-so copiously were they supplied with foot...