The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.

In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

Of course God enjoys a good prank as much as the next infallible deity.

Dogsled-riding is a sport that is relaxing as well as fragrant.

There is nothing as relaxing as being out on the open sea, listening to the waves and the wind and the sails and voices downstairs yelling "HOW DO YOU FLUSH THESE TOILETS?"