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...something you get while being a fan here that you don’t get anywhere else.When someone breaks a Crimson record, it’s like Ron Burgundy says: it’s “kind of a big deal.”The history, the lore, and the tradition at Harvard are, in some cases, literally second to none. Did you know that the Crimson brought home the first two championships in the history of intercollegiate men’s lacrosse? Yep—in 1881 and 1882, to be exact.That might seem like a meaningless stat...
...Collingham tells the story of how the culinary habits of conquerors and conquered got jumbled up in India with great flair, drawing on historical records and local lore to color her tale. Thus she relates the legend, still prevalent in the Indian city of Lucknow, that the local shammi kebab, a mincemeat patty, is made with particularly fine meat because a toothless 18th century Nawab would otherwise not have been able to gnaw his way through it. If all these stories make you hungry, Collingham thoughtfully supplies several historically accurate recipes, ranging from the zard birinj, a rice dish eaten...
...they didn't know what they'd got. With big robberies, that's more common than you might suppose. In a number of the most famous British heists - notably the Brinks Mat bullion raid at Heathrow airport in 1983, when thieves took gold worth $45 million - police and underworld lore insists that the gangs had no idea of the value of their haul. For a crook, an unexpectedly large payday can be as much a curse as a blessing. You have to do something with stuff you've stolen, and if you've stolen a lot of it, your problems...
...they didn't know what they had got. With big robberies, that's more common than you might suppose. In a number of the most famous British heists--notably the Brinks Mat bullion raid at Heathrow airport in 1983, when thieves took gold worth $45 million--police and underworld lore insist that the gangs had no idea of the value of their haul. For a crook, an unexpectedly large payday can be as much a curse as a blessing. You have to do something with the stuff you've stolen, and if you've stolen a lot of it, your...
...Caspar Weinberger, etc. The Lampoon has had John Updike and even Elmer the Custodian. Past Presidents and Editors of the Yearbook include names such as George Feeney, Edward Kenyon, Roxane Harvey, Lee Smith, and Ken Meister—significant in their own right but not particularly etched in Harvard lore,” an excerpt from the yearbook’s website reads...