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The nuns had identical bright robes, glasses, and shaved heads, and were each less than five feet tall, so the papers go more for laughs than they otherwise might.
Unfortunately, as the number of nuns declined, the convent was forced to close, and the building, decaying year by year, played host to the best and busiest brothel in the city.
The Civil War ended with some 700,000 combatants dead on both sides; another 30,000 were executed or assassinated, including many priests and nuns; and perhaps 15,000 civilians were killed in air raids.
You’ll also see the first of La Rambla’s celebrated mimes, or “human statues,” portraying Christopher Columbus, priests, bearded nuns, and Roman soldiers, among many other guises.
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education , Rosemary Keefe Curb was one of three finalists for a job as dean of the college of arts and sciences until a local New Paltz resident acquired a copy of Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence , a book Curb co-edited that contains such statements as: "I've never been initiated into a coven, but I like to call myself a witch."