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...needy folk, and nominated a guardian of seafarers. After his bones were removed by Italian raiders to the port of Bari in 1087, prisoners, prostitutes, pawnbrokers and others flocked to his patronage. Soon, every Christian city wanted a piece of him, and relic hunters provided fingers, hair and teeth upon which to build churches. Reaching Amsterdam around 1300, he eventually became a supplier of goodies to kids, as shown in the 1907 postcard at left. And it was Dutch pilgrims who took him to America, where, in 19th century New York City, frothy writers and advertisers turned the austere bishop...
...needy folk, and nominated a guardian of seafarers. After his bones were removed by Italian raiders to the port of Bari in 1087, prisoners, prostitutes, pawnbrokers and others flocked to his patronage. Soon, every Christian city wanted a piece of him, and relic hunters provided fingers, hair and teeth upon which to build churches. Reaching Amsterdam around 1300, he eventually became a supplier of goodies to kids, as shown in the 1907 postcard at left. And it was Dutch pilgrims who took him to America, where, in 19th century New York City, frothy writers and advertisers turned the austere bishop...
China may claim 5,000 years of civilization--as locals often remind visitors from younger nations--but over the past half-century most of the country forgot its collective manners. Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic, considered teeth brushing a Western affectation and thought nothing of greeting international dignitaries while wearing patched trousers. Although China has mostly shed Chairman Mao's class-busting ideology and cities like Shanghai boast skyscrapers and bustling shopping malls, the deportment of some citizens evokes an era of subsistence. Even some members of the new bourgeoisie indulge in conspicuously boorish behavior, like...
...teen in the 1970s, Adkins watched his father battle Harvard’s encroachment into their neighborhood. Adkins, too—now a first-time candidate for City Council—cut his political teeth as the president of the Riverside Neighborhood Association, representing residents in their struggle against Harvard’s latest expansion in the area...
...party video, for a party song. Juicy J’s verse at the beginning is probably the reason for the song’s success, and in the video, he sticks to what he is best at; wearing scary green skeleton t-shirts, flashing his vampire teeth, and scaring helpless old people, all while spouting off nonsense like: “Ghetto pimp tight, girl, say I’m the man.” I’m not a girl, and I’m not sure what it means to be ghetto pimp tight, but Juicy...