LOBSTER LUNACY! ACTIVIST HURLS PET TO ITS DEATH
An animal rights activist’s dramatic “rescue” may have ended in death and heartbreak: a lobster snatched from a warm tank and hurled into the freezing harbor likely died on impact, and its tank mate may have perished days later from loneliness, the restaurateur says. Emma Smart stormed into Catch at the Old Fish Market in Weymouth, seized one of the Michelin Guide restaurant’s pet lobsters — Ronnie and Reggie — and tossed it into the sea “like a cricket ball,” sparking fury from owner Sean Cooper, who blasted the move as ignorant and said neither crustacean was ever on the menu.
Bandaranaike's husband became prime minister of Ceylon in 1956 and was assassinated three years later. In the election that followed, Bandaranaike's party was victorious—making her the world's first female prime minister. She headed two coalition governments and served again as prime minister when she was appointed by her daughter, Chandrika Kumaratunga, who was elected president in 1994. While in office, Bandaranaike promoted a new constitution that changed the country's name to what?
Observed in New York state, Verrazano Day commemorates the discovery of New York Harbor by the Italian navigator
Exquisite corpse is an exercise in which a collection of words or images is assembled by several participants, each of whom adds to a composition by either following a predetermined sequence—such as adjective-noun-adverb-verb-article-adjective-noun—or by looking at the end of the previous entry. The name of the game is derived from the phrase that French Surrealists created when they first played it in 1925: "Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau," which means what?
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