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...Strochavi examined the lump. Was the lump present at birth? No, her baby had been a "clean" baby. He felt the lump. The infant screamed. Contusion? There was no sign of bruising. Caput succedaneum, the deep bruising of the scalp layer immediately next to the bony skull? Probably not. Inflammation or abscess of the scalp? No. There were no signs of erysipelas, wounds, boils, suppurating sweat glands, and very little likelihood of any decay of a bone in the skull. Encephalocele, a tumor formed by the sticking out through the soft infantile skull of the membranes of the brain, with...
...must be laid. With four different gangs working, eleven borings have been made in all, nine through the ice on the river and one on each bank. The figures taken at boring number four, one of those where the drill was set up on the ice, indicate a considerable layer of clay under the river bottom which the superintendent of the works declared would be favorable to further construction. Plans for the bridge have been drawn, but arrangements for the entire work have not been definitely completed...
...Reisner before leaving, on the plateau of solid rock between the pyramid of Cheops and the Nile. They had come almost to the edge of the rock where it was cut away in prehistoric ages by the Nile and has since been covered every year with a thick layer of the Nile mud which the inundation spreads over the entire valley. The thick layer of sand which has covered the plateau for thousands of years with periodic intermissions when enterprising Egyptologists have laid bare the feet of the Sphinx, the Valley Temple of Khephren and the other monuments east...
...Czecho-Slovakia, workmen quarrying glacial silt for a brick company uncovered the family tomb of Aurignacian mammoth-hunters of 800 generations (20,000 years) ago. There were 12 adult skeletons and eight of children, reposing under a layer of stones (protection from beasts) within a mortuary chamber formed by walls of mammoths' bones. Mammoth lower jaws constituted one wall, shoulder blades a palisade opposite. It was the largest single collection of prehistoric human remains ever discovered, and admirably preserved...
...route the Prince changed from naval togs into a full Guard uniform, clapped a great black busby on his head, and allowed his scarlet tunic to be adorned with the blue ribbon of the Garter and almost obscured beneath a layer of the stars and decorations which he favors most...