However,putting a silver sixpence inside a shoe is generally not a tradition followed by brides in the United States.
VOA: special.2011.07.15
His team also found grass placed inside the shoe.
VOA: special.2010.08.03
They did this by putting pieces of silicon or one of a number of other solid materials inside a shoe-box-sized cavity and zapping the material with microwaves from a metal tip.
Days after his arrival, an angry lawyer threw a shoe at Musharraf inside a court building in Karachi as he made his way to a courtroom to face a series of legal charges against him, including ones related to the 2007 assassination of former President Benazir Bhutto.