A funeral supermarket is in business in Paris.

Political commentator Shana Alexander didn’t realize that Jane Curtin had been
parodying her on NBC’s Saturday Night Live for nearly a year after it began.

The Tibetans built iron suspension bridges as early as the Ninth century.

Joseph Kennedy, Sr., blamed his family’s misfortunes on an old gypsy woman who
put a curse on him. Kennedy evicted the woman from an old tenement where she
was a squatter.

Pigeons make excellent outdoor pets.

This article appears in December 15 • 1995 and December 15 • 1995 (Cover).

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