The exterior is simple, not to say severe, a crazy wooden bellcot above the western gable alone relieving the skyline of the solid old stone-tiled roof, while wooden shutters, all awry, obscure the ancient windows.

Only Illinois and New York, besides Texas, have had more convictions overturned by genetic testing than Dallas County, a fact attributable in part to evidence retained to assure reconviction in the event of a successful appeal.

Monkey, a Japanese-made series, features a youthful Buddhist priest, a monkey-man, a smallish gentleman who fell into the belly of a pig, an artistic type who lived under water, and a dragon-turned-horse.

Towards the end of the seventh century the monks of Fleury … clandestinely excavated the body of Benedict himself, plus the corpse of his even more shadowy sister and fellow religious, Scholastica.