With its talking statuary, its enormous and elaborate monuments and museums, and its variety of daily shows, it has become a Disneyland of the dead...

Spreading ground covers for shady areas include dead nettles (Lamium) and carpet bugles (Ajuga), with attractively variegated leaves.

There are three ways to deliver the prank to the prankee. The first way is in person.

To adulterous lust the most sacred duties are sacrificed, because, before marriage, men, by a promiscuous intimacy with women, learned to consider love as a selfish gratification—learned to separate it not only from esteem, but from the affection merely built on habit, which mixes a little humanity with it.