Word: mazes
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...around the base, and may have taken a century or more of painstaking construction. The termites mix a drop of saliva with soil, plant matter and excrement and deposit it like a tiny brick; somehow, in the darkness, each knows where to place its contribution to form the maze of tunnels and chambers that harden like concrete...
...search for a missing person, few places in the world would be more forbidding than the sandy 28-mile-long sliver of land known as the Gaza Strip. Its cities are a chaotic maze of dusty alleyways lined by warrens of crumbling buildings that each seem indistinguishable from the next. The 1.4 million people who live there make it the most densely populated patch of land on earth. At times, the streets and souks can become a suffocating crush of human congestion. And the task of finding a lost soul is made more hazardous by the long-held...
...Derbyshire. Designed by Capability Brown in the 18th century, the grounds are so grand it's said they inspired Jane Austen's vision of Mr. Darcy's home in Pride and Prejudice; Chatsworth was used as the set of his house for last year's film adaptation. A huge maze, a rose garden and a 300-year-old hillside water cascade are just some of the pleasures set among the estate's 42 hectares, chatsworth.org...
...Derbyshire. Designed by Capability Brown in the 18th century, the grounds are so grand it's said they inspired Jane Austen's vision of Mr. Darcy's home in Pride and Prejudice; Chatsworth was used as the set of his house for last year's film adaptation. A huge maze, a rose garden and a 300-year-old hillside water cascade are just some of the pleasures set among the estate's 42 hectares, chatsworth.org...
...millions, the Twin Towers were silent black boxes. 102 Minutes makes them speak, using the e-mails and phone calls that poured out of the buildings in the last frenzied moments on Sept. 11, 2001, to show how rescue workers, stock brokers, security guards and secretaries fought through a maze of locked doors and blocked stairways as the clock ticked down. Sometimes the tersest fragments are the most eloquent, like the record of a 911 call that reads simply, "Female caller states they are stuck in elevator. States they are dying...