CE Report Reveals Europe Faces Severe Housing Shortage
Geneva reports from the Economic Commission for Europe show over four families lack adequate housing across 16 nations after World War II. Destruction totaled the equivalent of 4,800,000 dwellings with repair rates far below needed, prompting two working groups to promote material exchange and rationalized building methods.
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French Etiquette Rules Criticized by France Dimanche
Paris report cites France Dimanche listing numerous social don ts for well bred citizens. Do not kiss a lady in public nor blow your nose at meals. Avoid offering jewels to a married woman without her husband’s consent. Keep eyes at the bottom of the glass, do not dunk bread, and refrain from blowing your nose during meals. Flowers for the hostess and prepaying the bill are frowned upon. Rules do not apply to well born individuals.
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France Dimanche
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Disgrace Twins Murder Case Reveals Feuding Family
In Kyushu province police reveal a grim tale of a husband’s disgraced wife and twins amid feudal superstition. The mother of the husband suffocated one twin and buried the body at the family tomb to prevent shame, pushing a divorce that severed the wife from the possibility of more twins. Japanese beliefs about twins as reincarnations of the dead fuel the motive for separation and the culprits’ actions.
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Kyushu
Iraq Diggers Find Pictures Of Life Of 7 000 Years Ago
Iraq Museum expedition at Tel Abu Shahrain Eridu in South Iraq uncovers multi burial tombs with a man and wife rows, a child, and a dog skeleton. Finds include a female with a male lizard face statue and clay sailing boat models, suggesting monogamous marriages and beliefs in life after death. New ceramics appear below 30 feet, replacing Al Ubaid ware, indicating an older culture.
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Iraq Museum
Tel Abu Shahrain
Eridu
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Persian Gulf
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Texas Citrus By-Products Hit by Processing Costs
Prices for Texas citrus and by products slipped as grapefruit sales fell to around 2 dollars per ton. McLeary notes processing fees and handling costs erode profits, while producers adjust to lower citrus output and shifting demand.
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Texa
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