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...notion that Magdalene was pregnant by Jesus at his Crucifixion became especially entrenched in France, which already had a tradition of her immigration in a rudderless boat, bearing the Holy Grail, his chalice at the Last Supper into which his blood later fell. Several French kings promoted the legend that descendants of Magdalene's child founded the Merovingian line of European royalty, a story revived by Richard Wagner in his opera Parsifal and again in connection with Diana, Princess of Wales, who reportedly had some Merovingian blood. (The Wachowski brothers, those cultural magpies, named a villain in The Matrix Reloaded...
...TONGUE SWALLOWING Don't put a stick or spoon into the mouth of someone suffering a seizure. Lots of people still think this is necessary to prevent seizure victims from swallowing their tongue. In fact, "swallowing the tongue is an urban legend," says Greg Stockton, a health and safety expert at the Red Cross. Instead, remove hard objects from around the person and cushion the head. Sometimes the tongue will block the airway. In that case, tilt the head back, lift the chin and turn the person on his or her side. And as with all cases of unconsciousness, call...
DIED. BOB HOPE, 100, wisecracking comic legend whose career spanned vaudeville, TV and film; in Toluca Lake, Calif. (see ESSAY...
...million Amount earned by Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas in its first three weeks, one of the summer's biggest box-office duds...
...favored Iraqi exile and now serving on the Bremer-appointed Governing Council. Putting Saddam on trial would allow Iraqis to own the process of their liberation from his regime, he argued. And it would involve systematically stripping the former dictator of his power to terrify Iraqis, denying him the legend of "martyrdom" and forcing him to account for his crimes...