The Local [France]
12 February 2020
How France's 'most embarrassing' baby name doesn't
actually exist
The fact that some people call their children
Clitorine in unwitting reference to the clitoris (which incidentally is the
same word in French in case you were searching for it) seems to be quite widely
accepted in France. Except that they don't. The data from French statistics
body INSEE does not list it, neither does the Paris electoral roll or the
register of deaths. It seems that the nearest this has ever come to being a
real name was in the title of a series of pornographic novels from the 1970s.
[…]
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Journal Star [Peoria, IL]
12 February 2020
East Peoria PD: No, the Kroger van in the Kroger
parking lot isn’t full of kidnappers
EAST PEORIA — Social media chatter about a white van
filled with possible kidnappers in a Kroger parking lot is not just greatly
exaggerated, it’s flat-out untrue. […] In fact, police say, the van is owned by
The Kroger Co. and employees in the van are not doing anything unlawful. […]
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Philadelphia Tribune [PA]
15 February 2020
Back in the Day: 'Green Lady' legend struck fear into
kids
[…] The Green Lady was viewed as an urban legend.
However, for children, she took on real life and had many of us afraid to go
out at night and caused chaos in our elementary schools. So, are you dear
reader wondering about the history of The Green Lady? Well, let me take you
back to an Oct. 9, 1959, article that appeared in The Philadelphia Tribune
titled “Rumored ‘Green Lady’ Cause of School Panic.” […]
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