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...Christian Middle Ages at first simply and starkly re-enacted Christ's burial. Later, the ceremonials of death became complicated, e.g., many families employed a "sin-eater" who took the dead man's sins upon himself by eating a loaf of bread and drinking a bowl of beer over the corpse. Embalmers, whose craft the book covers in the most intimate detail, advanced steadily (one notable medieval corpse was preserved in olive catsup). It was Leonardo Da Vinci, the father of modern embalming, who developed the method of intravenous injection which was adopted in 17th century England. There...
...quite an ordeal. "I used to eat six eggs and half a loaf of bread for breakfast," he wistfully recalled last week. "Sometimes a can of corned beef. But my big meal was dinner." And at parties and luaus, he really let go, consuming three bowls of two-finger poi and "everything else on the table": kalua pig, pork laulau (pork and salmon wrapped in taro leaves), pulehu aku (dried fish), lomi (salmon, raw, with tomatoes and chopped onion), chicken luau, dried squid, raw fish and limu (chopped seaweed), baked breadfruit and baked taro, haupia (coconut pudding), all washed down...
...residents in Paris find that the neighborhood baker is away, and they must go half a mile for a loaf of bread...
...arrested for robbing Ishaq and Manshur Dudum's grocery of 50 bottles of whisky and a black-bread-and-Roquefort-cheese sandwich, George Woods, 45, was caught in the act again, arrested for robbing Ishaq and Manshur Dudum's new grocery of 50 bottles of whisky, a loaf of black bread and a Roquefort-cheese sandwich...
Staff members of the new magazine will buy stock valued at $20 a share to increase capital assets which now stand at more than $1000. "If everyone on the magazine has a direct financial, interest contributed by the organizers, we can be sure no one will loaf," he added. Profits will be divided in proportion to stock owned by the editors...