Thousands of people strolling along the Mississippi River licking their sauce-stained fingers and washing it down with cooler-chilled beers.

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Washing-up liquid had been put down toilets, cellophane put across toilets seats and fish placed in the school library.

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But prominent political figures had larger cells, some furnished with desks, bathrooms, sit-down toilets and washing machines, and were permitted to watch television for two hours every evening, it said.

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We were eating lunch in the central tent, washing down slices of tasty wood-fired pizza with glasses of gin and tonic, when a massive, six-ton bull elephant decided to crash our party.

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The Vikings who settled Iceland smoked, dried, salted or pickled just about anything to get them through the long Arctic winter and their descendents still occasionally indulge in the delicacies of their ancestors, washing it all down with Black Death, a caraway-flavored liquor that apparently goes well with rancid shark.

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They then shut down electricity in the flat - no more dishwasher, fridge or washing machine.

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