Not everyone believes that baseball is strictly an American tradition.
In 1962, the Russian newspaper Izvestia claimed that "Beizbol" was an old Russian game.
The day was August 19, 1962. Longview, Texas was agog.
Homero Blancas, a 24-year old graduate of the University of Houston, had just completed the first round of the Premier Invitational Tournament in 55 strokes.
His card of 27 for the front nine and 28 for the back was the lowest round of golf ever played on a course measuring more than 5,000 yards.
The Facts on Fossils
A fossil can be either the actual remains of a plant or an animal, or the imprint of a plant or animal, preserved from prehistoric times by nature.
Quick burial in material that excludes bacteria and oxygen prevents decay and permits whole preservation. Preservation for aeons creates fossils.
The scientific study of fossils is called paleontology.
Insects that lived millions of years ago are often found in amber.
This hard substance was originally a sticky resin which enveloped the insect.
Through the years, the fragile tissues of the insect dried, until all that remained was the mold, sometimes so precise scientists can conduct microscopic studies of its structure.
Fossilization is often the result of petrification.
Mineral material from underground streams may be deposited in the interstices of bones, shells, or plants, and render the subject more stone-like, thus protecting it from the ravages of time.
Over the millennia, the original live material may be replaced entirely by minerals, so that the original structure and appearance are maintained, as in petrified wood.
Petrified logs from the Triassic period may be seen in the Petrified Forest of Arizona.
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