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...Stamford's historic Atlantic Square, amid modern store fronts and movie marquees, a granite slab marks the ground where, 305 years ago, "Twentynine men and their families . . . imbued with the spirit of the founders of New England . . . made a permanent and enduring settlement of landowners and freemen...
...stone slab atop the church has long been pointed out by drivers of sightseeing buses as the tomb of a rich parishioner who had a mortal fear of worms. Actually it is only an ornament...
Karl Marx, whose Das Kapital is the Bible of Communism, had visitors. To his grave in London's jampacked Highgate Cemetery came Andrei Vishinsky, at the head of Russia's UNO delegation, and deposited on the bearded prophet's plain stone slab a wreath of lilies and red carnations...
...town of 1,400 souls, approached by a creaking ferry and boasting a 5-&-io/ store, a saloon or two, and a movie theater. There, some time between 1815 and 1824, an angel descended to the green earth. Many later saw the angel's footprint, embedded in a slab of stone; but only one man, a six-foot patriarch with snowy beard and flowing white locks, saw the angel himself. The lone wit ness was Father George Rapp, founder of the first of two Utopias that flowered and withered in New Harmony early last century. Exploring their brief history...
...shark had bitten a thin slab off the top of the right forearm. On the under side were teeth marks, half an inch deep. Back on the raft, Nagurney had his arm bandaged, but he was not finished. A lieutenant (j.g.) had become delirious and had taken a swag of sea water. Nagurney pounced on him, rammed his finger down the officer's throat to make him vomit. The lieutenant bit Nagurney's finger. Nagurney's summation: "I guess I'm the only guy that's ever been bit by a shark and an officer...