Word: peppers
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...ears (not to mention taste buds), forcing the French off their horse habit sounds about as reasonable an idea as getting them to stop scarfing snails. (And that's without even factoring in the emotional aversion to seeing a loin of Trigger or fillet of Black Beauty served with pepper sauce.) But opponents of the Brigitte Bardot Foundation effort say there's more than just culinary discernment behind their desire to keep alive a tradition that some historians trace back to the early 1800s, when Napoleon fed his famished soldiers horses slain during the Battle of Eylau. (See pictures...
...Those who had seen enough, had gathered strength from the crowd and had been sufficiently appalled by the savagery of regime loyalists were lucky enough to escape. According to reports, those who remained were treated to pepper spray and beatings...
...middle of a snowstorm. Moved, the King gathered up surplus food and wine and carried them through the blizzard to the peasant's door. The alms-giving tradition has always been closely associated with the Christmas season - hence the canned-food drives and Salvation Army Santas that pepper our neighborhoods during the winter - but King Wenceslas' good deed came the day after Christmas, when the English poor received most of their charity...
...different matter. What aspiring movie star goes into cartoon voice work? One who has the comic aptitude for it. Murphy provided the voice for Gloria the penguin, the hero's gal pal in Happy Feet, as well as Tank the Eighth Grader on the Disney animated series Pepper Ann. By the time she was 20 she'd won the role of Luanne, Peggy Hill's dizzy niece, on King of the Hill - and, just because she could, she also voiced the role of Bobby Hill's best friend Joseph (until Joseph hit puberty and his voice changed, literally). Luanne appeared...
...Public Safety officers at the scene tried to calm the situation, but they couldn't, and it took a Princeton Borough police officer who was in the area to unleash the wrath of pepper spray onto the crowd. Soon, around 24 cops were at the scene to clear the area...