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...proper method of garbage disposal in the Middle Ages was throwing it out of the open window. Outside, the communal pigs fed in the streets. In fact, the tradition of a male accompanying a female arm in arm down the street was to protect her from flying bones and slops...
Hispanic females, late teens and already older than Eve, seek communal sisterhood. Motherhood we had forced upon us years...
...Clark responded. She soon learned otherwise. Among the errors that forensic experts see as most serious: the contents of Nicole Simpson's stomach, which would have been useful in pinpointing the time of her death, were discarded, and her bloody clothes were improperly placed in a communal drip pan that may have contaminated blood samples...
...visit to Alma-Ata and conversations with several of those who knew him as a boy reveal a quite different picture. He writes, for example, of living in squalor with his mother in a filthy communal apartment where he had to endure the indignities of a communal toilet ("it smelled bad"). Yet the two-story house was, at the time, one of the best in the city, constructed during the 1930s for elite Russian workers. "Zhirinovsky complains there was no hot water, but it was a rare house in Alma-Ata that had hot water then," recalls Vladimir Rerikh...
...went out to Porter Square and bought this six-foot inflatable kiddy swimming pool," recounts Heller with enthusiasm. They took apart the communal Canaday shower and ran a hose to their common room. while their proctor ordered them to dismantle it, Heller has since filled up the pool at least once every year since...