11.   During the London blitz, housewives hung laundry to dry as bombs leveled their neighborhoods.

12.   Italy spent millions to spruce up Genoa and even asked residents not to hang their laundry outside while summit leaders were in town.

13.   One woman was killed while hanging laundry in her yard, he said, while another was sitting on her couch when a sniper shot her through a window.

14.   Women draped in shawls scrubbed clothes in aluminum wash tubs, hanging their laundry on makeshift clotheslines and available bushes.

15.   Early this year, authorities banned hanging laundry on balconies.