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...among desperadoes-smugglers, in this case, on England's Dorsetshire coast. Like Stevenson's Jim Hawkins, young Johnnie first learns the true measure of the lawlessness in his vicinity while lying in concealment-not in a sweet-smelling apple barrel, but in the fust of an old crypt, with a corpse grinning at his elbow...
...Just before the ceremony, a messenger arrived from City Hall to remind church authorities that an old sanitary ordinance forbade burial except in cemeteries. The priests protested that they had long since gotten a special dispensation from the municipality to put Doña María in a crypt in the church, just as they had for her husband 8 years before. That dispensation, they were brusquely told, was no longer effective...
...helped found the National Woman's Party. She was the spiritual sister of Abigail Adams, of Amelia Jenks Bloomer, the first bloomer girl, of those heroines of women's rights-Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott-before whose statue in the crypt of the Capitol she had posed, tight-lipped and purposeful...
...told how Motolinia and a group of Aztec warriors cut the Emperor's corpse down from a tree, smeared it with a paste of herbs and took it hundreds of miles to Ixcateopan, Cuauhtemoc's birthplace. There they buried the Emperor and erected a church above the crypt...
...Ignacio Bauer opened Madrid's first synagogue since the expulsion. During the Spanish civil war, it was closed down once more and looted by the Communists. But Bauer managed to save the Torah (sacred book), and the Franciscan nuns of Murcia hid it in the crypt of their convent. Under the Franco regime, which requires police permits for gatherings of more than ten, Spain's 8,000 Jews had no place for public worship...