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Directly across the street from Harvard Hall and between "the sentinel and the nun," by which O. W. Holmes, Sr., meant respectively the Unitarian and Episcopal churches, lies the Old Cambridge Burying Ground. It is one of the most distinctive of American graveyards. More people were buried in it before 1700 than in any other cemetery in the United States. But more important than these laurels is the fact that is tenants had the lion's share in the making of embryonic America. From 1635, when Cambridge was called New Town, until the clearing of the lot at Mt. Auburn...
...famed Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Police right behind him had to stop and remove their boots before entering the Buddhist temple. For most of a day bootless police combed its labyrinth of passages and rest houses, guarded every exit. They paid little heed to a bent and evidently blind nun who slowly made her way down the main steps. Not until much later did the police learn that the blind Buddhist nun was Communist Thakin...
...Shadow of eternity, where they have rested for some 300 years, some strange figures were exposed to 20th Century stares in the Mexican village of Tepepan last week. Workmen, removing the floor of an ancient church, disclosed 20 bodies, most of them dressed in priestly garb or nun's habit. All were mummified and remarkably preserved. But nobody was quite sure how they came to be there or what to do with them next...
...Founded in 1925 in Washington, D.C. by a physician-nun, Mother Anna Dengel, the Medical Mission Sisters now have 170 members, maternity hospitals in India, England, Atlanta. They conduct one of the three schools for midwives in the U.S. The others: Kentucky's Frontier School of Midwifery, Manhattan's Maternity Center Association...
...long ago, Minister Fiderkiewicz (called "Fido" in Ottawa) decided to ship the treasures back to Poland. He sent the custodian of the collection, Dr. Stanislaw Swierz-Zaleski, to pick up the cases at the Ottawa convent. To the nun behind the grill Dr. Zaleski mumbled the secret password: "Holy Virgin of Czestochowa." The nun looked surprised. Only a few days before, a man "with a tumor on his ear" had appeared at the convent. He too had pronounced the secret password-and she had given him the treasures...