"Segovia Castle, located in an ancient town of Segovia in central Spain, started off as an Arab fort in the 12th century. Its unique shape of the bow of a ship makes the fortress one of the most distinctive castles in the country. In the Middle Ages Alcazar was a key fortress in the defense of the country. Apparently, it was a source of inspiration for many of the castles produced by Walt Disney."
"Remembering Where People Get Their News"
--Columbia Journalism Review
"The armature: the body of the bird is a straight tube attached to two bulbs, approximately the same size, one at either end. The tube flows into the upper bulb, like the neck of a funnel, and extends almost to the bottom of the lower bulb, like the straw in a lemonade."
--What is a Dippy Bird, and how is it used?
www.math.ucr.edu
"The airspace above the mine is closed for helicopters because of a few incidents in which they were sucked in by the downward air flow."
--fact on the Mir Diamond Mine in Mirny, Russia
"I thought it better -- at the expense of truth -- to put into his mouth language familiar to the domestic circle."
--W. Somerset Maugham on minced oaths
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