Word: dung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sarcophagus was demolished forthwith. The remains of Cesare Borgia, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI and himself a cardinal at 18, an accomplished murderer at 25, and military conqueror of a good part of Italy at 27, were carried into the street and buried beneath the cobblestones and the dung of passing cattle. For 400 years the villagers of Viana avoided the unmarked grave, particularly on the night of March 11, when Cesare's ghost is said to be abroad and thirsty for vengeance. For generations the city fathers of Viana urged Cesare's reburial inside the church...
...things out in a self-analytical autobiography, The Trouble With Cinderella, which he wrote on his dairy farm at Pine Plains, N.Y. In the book, he described his zooming rise from Manhattan's Lower East Side to the top of what he called the musical "dung heap," and bared his confrontation of an ageless question: Where...
...first time Dr. Johan Hendrik Botha saw green-eyed blonde Mavis, she was clad in rags, covered with veld sores and standing barefooted on the cow-dung floor of a filthy Zulu kraal. Horrified, the doctor, who treats thousands of Zulus in the lonely hills of northern Natal, decided instantly that six-year-old Mavis was a white child; he took her home. Young Mrs. Botha gave Mavis a good bath, tied her hair in gay ribbons, gave her her first doll, her first shoes and set her at a table to learn to eat with knife & fork...
...about local folklore and religious customs, simplified his style and began copying the primitive pictures he saw on mud huts. At first his dancing devils and elephant gods were not successful, and for years he barely kept alive. Sometimes he used his clothes for canvas-first smeared with cow dung to stiffen them, then whitewashed to make a painting surface. He mixed his own inexpensive paints, including such ingredients as rock dust, mud and lampblack...
...average native on the altiplano were to cook his meals over a cow-dung fire, the cow dung would have to be imported from the Argentine pampas. Cows are pretty scarce in Bolivia as a whole, and virtually nonexistent on the altiplano. The natives there use llama dung for fuel...