Word: loree
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...prank of pranks”, while footage of the event was broadcast nationally on CBS. This year’s Harvard-Yale game marks the twentieth anniversary of the MIT prank, an event burned in the memories of those who witnessed it as well as in Harvard-Yale Game lore...
...flares, though there was no hiss or smoke, no sparkling arc back to earth. To a cynic like myself, they looked indisputably man-made. But to the believers?gathered in the tens of thousands along the riverbank?this was the breath of the Naga, the mythical serpent of Buddhist lore that many Thais believe haunts the broad reaches of the Mekong in Nong Khai province...
...since a stairway was finished in 1974, the steady flow of tourists means you'll never be alone at its monastery. Its seven stories provide spectacular views of Nong Khai province's Bung Kan district. At the top of the mountain is a slightly spooky forest, where, if local lore is to be believed, you might be joined by otherworldly company...
...According to local lore, the giant snake?which was forbidden from entering the monkhood by the Lord Buddha because it wasn't human?has roamed a subterranean universe known as the Muang Badan for thousands of years, slithering through a vast network of caves and tunnels. The main thoroughfare?the Naga superhighway, if you like?is said to run from Kam Chanode in Udon Thani province to Wat Paa Ahong, a temple on the riverbank more than 100 kilometers away in neighboring Nong Khai. Pilgrims, I was told, visit Kam Chanode to anoint themselves with water from the Naga...
Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC, pronounced alternately R-O-T-C and rot-see) lore is that two years ago a midshipman in uniform was asked by a professor to leave the class. But today, even strolling by a peace rally, onlookers are just curious, not irate...