Word: hemp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks. The French court in 1393 arranged a marriage between two court attendants as an excuse for prolonging the merriment. As described in William S. Walsh's Curiosities of Popular Customs, at the height of the ceremonies, the king and five nobles withdrew and, covering themselves with tar and hemp, re-emerged as dancing bears, tied together with a silken rope...
...blindness that they found it difficult to believe the rest of the world could see. Recalls Wilson: "A blind farmer taught me how to plant grain along a straight piece of bamboo. Jean accompanied the blind women with their water buckets as they felt their way along the hemp rope from the well...