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...Bundy butchered him kosher-style—cut his throat, then watched him bleed to death,” Perret writes. It is an entirely inaccurate portrayal of Jewish dietary law and an entirely inappropriate description of a Holocaust refugee...
...brief question-and-answer session following the performance, the vice abbot of the monks explained that the practice of throat singing was actually developed to intentionally and necessarily obfuscate the words of the liturgical texts performed...
...sound produced by the Gyuto monks’ throat singing technique was guttural as well as sonorous beyond belief. The impossibly low-pitched reverberations swelled up from deep within the monks’ throats, creating an enveloping resonant hum louder and stronger than many in the audience had ever heard–or may ever hear again...
...exception was the incident of the asphyxiated primate, which Gibbons called “an unfortunate accident.” In the experiment, a monkey was drinking grape juice through a hose and “loved the grape juice so much, it stuffed the tube down its throat,” Gibbons said. The researcher could only see the back of the monkey’s head and didn’t realize the monkey was suffocating until it was too late, according to Gibbons. But reports of other violations were the result of procedural failures, he said. SAEN...
...left to starve to death, his own prop a smirking skull. This is the text in a Sunday splash from 1943: "A brawny arm is hurled forward! With the speed of lightning, a leather thong wraps itself around the detective's neck - he chokes. His hands struggle toward his throat. His body is yanked backward. The pain is excruciating! The whip butt rises and descends as all senses leave the brain of detective Dick Tracy...