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...Lord") or "A.D." have pervaded our time references, are chiseled into nearly every federal building, and are found in every Presidential document. And the most telling of all, we publicly continue to celebrate the birth and crucifixion of Jesus Christ in our two most important holidays--Christmas and Easter...
Dryansky said the group wants to do a reading of Romany Gypsy tales accompanied by a pantomime in February--this time in the Union. "Maybe one Easter we'll just set off on a nomadic-type trip, giving plays in other schools and small towns," he said...
Robert W. Easter San Diego...
...comparison, in the 1963 Great Train Robbery-Britain's most notorious caper and until recently the richest-thieves escaped with a relatively modest $7.3 million in bank notes from the Glasgow-London Royal Mail train near Mentmore, England. This year, however, the records have been falling fast. On Easter Monday, a team of masked men invaded the Security Express depot in London and made off with an estimated $10.5 million in cash receipts. Two months later, five armed men, three of them disguised in monkey masks, forced employees of Bonds jewelers in central London to open their vault...
...record-setting heist last Easter bore striking similarities to last weekend's robbery. "It might be that there is a link," said a Scotland Yard spokesman, "or it might be that it is a copycat." The gang that raided the forbidding Security Express warehouse, known as "Fort Knox," seized a lone guard in the early hours of the morning, trussed up seven other employees as they arrived for work, and poured gasoline over one of their captives' legs. Once the security vault was open, the thieves loaded their booty into three waiting vans, painted yellow to resemble those...