Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excellent were Turkish aqueducts, Turkish wells, Turkish baths, in the Middle Ages, that complacent Turkish conservatives have not dreamed of improving them for the past 500 years. Young Turks campaigning for modern waterworks for Turkey's larger cities seized on the "Duck Catastrophe" at Ihlamour last week, argued emotionally in the Turkish press...
...Bosporus, source of drinking water for generations has been a single deep narrow well in the market place. Housewives and porters gathered there every morning to draw water for their daily needs. There one Yusuf Hanoum, leather worker, sat down to rest last week, while his pet duck, name unknown, hopped up on the well curb :to keep him company. A stray dog frightened him. With an agitated squawk Yusuf's duck fell into Ihlamour's well. Unable to extricate his pet, Leather Worker Hanoum dropped half a loaf of bread and a large piece of goat...
...several days, the best minds of Ihlamour bent to the task of extracting Yusuf's duck. Scheme A was to lower a large shallow bucket down the well in the hope that the duck would swim into it. Several times the duck did so, but always flopped out before the bucket could be hauled to the surface. Scheme B was to tie fish lines to hard indigestible crusts of bread in the hope that Yusuf's duck would swallow line and crust, allow himself to be hauled to the surface. Yusuf's duck did not. Scheme...
Disgusted at these futile attempts, the commandant of the nearest garrison ordered a squad of soldiers to the Ihlamour wellhead. An officer barked commands. The soldiers fired ten rounds rapidly down the well. When the smoke cleared away Yusuf's duck was heard quacking irritably from the abyss. Superstitious Mussulmans fled from the neighborhood, claimed that the duck was bewitched. City authorities posted the well as unfit for drinking purposes. While Ihlamour city fathers concentrated on the problem of duck extraction, Ihlamour householders were forced to go nearly two miles to the nearest unpolluted well...
...York Academy of Medicine. Oldest specimen is a manuscript, written about 870 A.D., of Apicius De re Coquinaria (On Cookery), which collates some of the ancient recipes the Romans considered choice. Ancient cookery differed little from modern. Roast pork and apples was a Roman, dish, also duck and turnip. The Romans had no sugar, used honey. Honey and cheese made a delicate dish. Pepper was new to them. They used it profusely. Cinnamon they knew but used it at burials, not in the kitchen. When Dr. Wilson could not understand a recipe, she prepared the dish in her own kitchen...