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Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, commonly known as the Biddenden Maids (1100–1134), were a pair of conjoined twins supposedly born in Biddenden, Kent, England, in the year 1100. They are said to have been joined at both the shoulder and the hip, and to have lived for 34 years. It is claimed that on their death they bequeathed five plots of land to the village, known as the Bread and Cheese Lands. The income from these lands was used to pay for an annual dole of food and drink to the poor every Easter. Since at least 1775, the dole has included Biddenden cakes, hard biscuits imprinted with an image of two conjoined women.
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Bread and Cheese Creek is a tributary of the Back River in Baltimore County, Maryland. The creek is 3.2 miles (5.1 km) long, with headwaters just east of the Baltimore city line. It flows east through Baltimore County before emptying into the Back River, which flows into the Chesapeake Bay. The watershed area of the creek is 1.85 square miles (4.8 km2).
Bread and Cheese may refer to:
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- ↑ "Thousands share Victoria Day bread, cheese on Six Nations", Sault Star , Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, 2008. BROKEN LINK
- ↑ Maracle, Brian. Back on the Rez: Finding the Way Home. Penguin, 1997, p. 212.