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... CAVE ANIMALS CAVE DWELLERS CHIMPANZEE CHILDREN'S THEATRES MCDANIEL , WALTON BROOKS , Ph.D. Professor of Latin , University of Pennsylvania CATULLUS , GAIUS VALERIUS MCDONNELL , JOHN B. Editorial Staff of The Americana CATHOLIC CHURCH ...
... CAVE ANIMALS CAVE DWELLERS CHIMPANZEE CHILDREN'S THEATRES MCDANIEL , WALTON BROOKS , Ph.D. Professor of Latin , University of Pennsylvania CATULLUS , GAIUS VALERIUS MCDONNELL , JOHN B. Editorial Staff of The Americana CATHOLIC CHURCH ...
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... caves vaults used as burial - places . All nations have been accustomed to some outward manifesta- tion of regard for the dead , such as funeral solemnities , the consecration of grounds for sepulture , the erection of monuments , etc ...
... caves vaults used as burial - places . All nations have been accustomed to some outward manifesta- tion of regard for the dead , such as funeral solemnities , the consecration of grounds for sepulture , the erection of monuments , etc ...
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... cave man . The greatest name in Babylonian archa- ology is Père Scheil , the Dominican , who so promptly translated the Code of Hammurèabi and has done so much else to put archæology in his debt . Far from the Church discouraging such ...
... cave man . The greatest name in Babylonian archa- ology is Père Scheil , the Dominican , who so promptly translated the Code of Hammurèabi and has done so much else to put archæology in his debt . Far from the Church discouraging such ...
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... CAVE , or CAVERN , an opening produced by nature in the solid crust of the earth . Caves are principally met with in limestone and gyp- sum as a result of the solvent action of ordinary circulating underground water . Less often they ...
... CAVE , or CAVERN , an opening produced by nature in the solid crust of the earth . Caves are principally met with in limestone and gyp- sum as a result of the solvent action of ordinary circulating underground water . Less often they ...
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... caves , see CAVE - DWELLERS and consult works there referred to . See also section on work of ground water , in article on GEOLOGY . CAVE ANIMALS . The animal life of caverns falls into three categories : 1. Animals , mostly extinct ...
... caves , see CAVE - DWELLERS and consult works there referred to . See also section on work of ground water , in article on GEOLOGY . CAVE ANIMALS . The animal life of caverns falls into three categories : 1. Animals , mostly extinct ...
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