Word: hallo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recipe collections--inscribed on three Mesopotamian clay slabs dating to 1700 B.C.--are probably the oldest cookbooks in existence, according to William W. Hallo, curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection...
...They are recipes and as such practically a unique genre that one simply has not encountered before in cuneiform literature," said Hallo, a professor of Assyriology and Babylonian literature at Yale...
Many Babylonians "subsisted on the barest necessities" and probably did not eat the food described in the tablets, Hallo said...
...when he took a walk, "someone would recognize me, smile and then start clapping. Soon somebody else would follow suit, and in a little while the whole street or piazza was clapping." What actor could resist? Adds Mastroianni: "In Naples the people will smile at you and whisper, 'Hallo, Marcello, we are getting old; come and have a coffee.' But in Rome, God protect you. They will snigger behind your back, 'Now he is old. Look at those lines.' " In such an atmosphere, the two actors could hardly help becoming friends and daydreaming about a possible second film...
...majority of Cambridge City Council members said this week they would support a measure restricting the traditional practice of trick-or-treating on Hallo-ween. If approved, the measure would make Cambridge the seventh community in Massachusetts to pass such a restriction...