It was a two-person job until the second cleaning woman left four months ago.

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"The lion had been fed, the young woman was cleaning the large enclosure, and the lion was in the small cage, " Mr Hadden explained, adding the cage door was partially open, allowing the lion to lift it up with his paw.

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Over the next couple of decades, she developed a modest following with a series of mysteries about a librarian who investigates murders on the side, and another series about a crime-fighting cleaning woman and karate expert named Lily Bard.

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"Everything suggests it was a pure accident where several temporary and unfortunate circumstances caused the woman to set the train in motion when she was cleaning, " Paer Andersson said in a statement, according to AFP news agency.

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An old woman was cleaning cobwebs and birds' nests out of the high-up stained-glass nooks with a 5-meter-long branch of bamboo.

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"Sexual gratification, cleaning, feeding and other services can be purchased, but not children: Both the man and the woman are required to produce their own children and perhaps to raise them, " he wrote.

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What should a cleaning woman do if she is asked to skimp on disinfecting rooms because sick patients are waiting in the halls?

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