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When an animal dies, the possibility of his becoming a fossil occurs only if he is buried shortly after death or possibly at the time of death. In this event the body does not have a chance to rot, but is pressed unharmed into a rock layer. The dense nature of the rock strata in this quarry is of advantage in that water is prevented from seeping through and hence rotting away the tiny remains...
...Manchester, N. H. Nodding to them venerably were Drs. George W. Gale, 93, of Saugus, Mass., Chester M. Ferrin, 93, of Burlington, Vt., and oldest of them all, probably the oldest medical graduate in the U. S., almost certainly the oldest practitioner, certainly the Medical Centre's cornerstone layer, Merritt Henry Eddy, 97, of Middlebury, Vt. The noise of the police motorcycles and sirens which accompanied the old doctors through Boston, the playing of the Navy Band before the Massachusetts State Capitol overhanging Boston's spring-freshened Common, and the sincere but fulsome laudations there, all wearied Oldest...
...Oliver Heaviside and A. E. Kennelly formulated in 1902 their "radio roof" theory: that Earth is surrounded by a sac of ionized ether which acts as a reflector (or conductor) of radio signals. During daytime the sun's light pushes this layer closer to Earth, lessens efficiency of reception. At night the layer rises, reception reaches maximum efficiency...
...force of his ally, the wind, against a plane in flight is sufficient to hold ice particles against the rubber by atmospheric pressure, although there is no actual adhesion. The ice will not remove itself. Ingeniously, the experimenters ran an air tube through the overshoe beneath the oil-holding layer. A flip of a small pump in the pilot's cockpit slightly inflates the tube, budging the ice, which is immediately blown away as the vacuum breaks...
...wicked that the Lord rained brimstone and fire upon it, was thought found by Father Mallon of the Pontifical Bible Institute of Jerusalem, on the plains of Jordan. A few vases, flint instruments, broken pottery, the ruins of an ancient wall were found, all covered with a thick layer of ashes. The evidence pointed to inhabitancy during the Bronze...