Some say Austin’s Frost Bank tower resembles an anime character.
A tortoise is a turtle and a turtle is a tortoise, as is a terrapin – they’re all turtles.
Wine fanciers speak of the “foxy” aroma of wines made from labruscan grapes. Cornell University researcher Terry E. Acree has found that the molecule responsible for the foxy odor is almost identical to one in the anal sac of the Japanese weasel, which had previously been said to have a “grape” smell.
In the 1890s in lower Manhattan, there were 80 bike shops within a one-mile radius. In Washington D.C., there were two patent buildings – one for bicycles, one for everything else.
Even before the war in Iraq, the U.S. had 752 military installations in more than 130 countries.
This article appears in June 18 • 2004.