The cause of the problem is a denehole, an underground gap left by chalk excavation in 17th Century.
The story is set in 17th Century Paris and follows a crack team of soldiers and bodyguards to King Louis XIII.
The only way I can see to reconcile this is to conclude that state governments have more protection from coercion from the Federal government than do individuals, in the same way that local aristocrats might have had more protections from the king than did the average subject in 17th century France.
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Start at the top at Kochi--or Cochin, as it used to be known--a sleepy Macau-like port where the Portuguese set up trading depots in the 16th century until they were pushed out by the Dutch in 17th century. (They, in turn, were shoved aside by the British in the 18th century.) For the best views of the city, take a ride on a wooden launch.
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As a proportion of the population, more people were killed during the An Lushan rebellion in eighth-century China, for example, or by the Thirty Years War in 17th-century central Europe.
Yet in the 17th century the Jewish world from Aleppo to Amsterdam was in thrall to Sabbatai Sevi, a kabbalist who claimed to be the messiah.
The canny heroism of a wild puck or male goat who alerted villagers to the arrival of Oliver Cromwell in the 17th Century is the supposed origin of the historic three-day Puck Fair in Killorglin, County Kerry every August, allegedly Ireland's oldest.
The surprising object lesson: hard-headed Scotland, which in the 17th century attempted to build an overland trading route across the isthmus of Panama starting in an area known as Darien.
Back in the 17th Century, the piazza must have been an ideal spot for people watching, too.
He compares plutocracy in modern America to its forerunners in 17th-century Holland and 19th-century Britain.
What changed this was the Thirty Years War in Europe in the 17th century.
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The rough waters round about claimed numerous lives and were sung about in 17th-century laments.
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It was created as a result of drainage of fenland in the 17th Century.
In the 17th century, philosophes like Robert Boyles and Thomas Hobbes began making lists of curious things.
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In the 17th century the English had picked up on the idea with the Oxford Botanical Garden.
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Created in 17th-century France, the tontine is part investment pool, part annuity and part motive for murder.
In the 17th century our British overlords didn't dream the colonies would become hotbeds of individual land-ownership.
Built in the 17th Century, it housed 22 shops and acted as a grand inn for travelling merchants.
This model spread in the 17th century supporting the growth of national libraries and the preservation of knowledge.
The soldier's family had indeed settled in the area in the 17th century.
The technique became popular among Dutch artists, including Rembrandt, in the 17th century.
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Little is known about the dodo, a famous flightless bird thought to have become extinct in the 17th Century.
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In the 17th century legend has it Nadir Shah took Timur's headstone back to Persia.
In the 17th century it was sugar, followed by gold, coffee and rubber.
The Canada goose was first introduced to England in the 17th Century to grace the waterfowl collections of wealthy individuals.
At last, in the 17th century, when the printing press came to Japan, the book was available to the masses.
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What began in early 17th century Ireland as a feast day to honor a saint from the fifth century A.D.
Despite its origins in the 17th Century, stamp duty is a very real fact for almost anyone buying a property today.
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