Word: englishness
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...burghers built small and narrow brick row houses, with separate rooms and considerable decoration. Since space was limited, they invented the double-hung window to replace what are now called French windows. The Dutch also believed strongly in schooling and kept their older children at home, whereas French and English children were ordinarily sent out as apprentices at age seven. With more light, more privacy and more children came a stronger sense of family life -- comfort is what we see in the interiors of De Hooch and Vermeer...
...were escorted up the hill by a group of uniformed school kids entranced by Tom's sunglasses (every little kid we met on the trip, in the smallest, remotest villages, yelled "Rambo!" when he caught a look at Tom's shades). They introduced us to U Revata, their English teacher at the East Gondalon monastery on Sagaing Hill...
...another official lie. We guessed that since Pakkoku wasn't on any of our maps, it must be a tiny village; it turned out to be a city of 200,000. We stayed at a family inn called the Myayatanar, where innkeeper Tint San spoke impeccable English and his son played "Ob-la-di, ob-la-da" on the guitar. They took us into town to the festival that was going on that night. We expected another pwe, but instead it was a huge carnival with a ferris wheel, Kung Fu movies blaring, and enormous garish posters everywhere--so much...
...manager at the Ruggles' English Pizzarestaurant on Massachusetts Ave. denied numerousspeculations that the coffee shop would replacethem as tenants. "We have a ten-year lease, so youshouldn't be asking us questions," he said,refusing to comment further. It is unclear whetheranother Mug-N-Muffin franchise will be opened inthe area
...whilst singing he put the sand and dust on his head . . . He was so tall that the tallest of us only came up to his waist." After the dawn of the Enlightenment and the scientific method, eyewitness accounts of oddities arrived buttressed by facts. In Africa, a 19th century, English explorer met the sister-in-law of a local chief and noted, "She was another of those wonders of obesity, unable to stand excepting on all fours." He then cajoled the large lady into giving him permission to measure her and dutifully reported the results: "Round...