Word: mazes
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...bring Dracula back to life after years of Count Chocula--cartoon clichés have sucked all the scariness out of him? Take him back to his roots. In The Historian, a humble academic and his child become caught up in a maze of mysterious documents that lead them to the original Dracula. Stuffed with rich, incense-laden cultural history and travelogue, The Historian is a smart, bibliophilic mystery in the same vein (sorry) as A.S. Byatt's Possession--but without all that poetry. --Lev Grossman
...throne room of Jerusalem's Greek Orthodox Patriarch in the Old City's Christian Quarter is at the heart of a maze of tunnels, sandstone stairways, narrow passages and courtyards bursting with almond blossom. Each night at 10 p.m., in a practice that dates back centuries, the priests of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulcher lock themselves into their ancient warren, shutting out the iniquitous world beyond their walls. Lately, though, they've concluded the biggest threat lies within - Patriarch Eirinaios I, who's at the center of a labyrinthine religious and legal scandal involving the alleged lease of Church...
...floodplains of Soc Trang province in Vietnam's Mekong Delta are a maze of rivers and canals dotted with villages so impoverished that local farmers earn less than $1 a day. It is not an obvious place to seek a fortune, but capitalism finds a way. Steering his ramshackle boat along the Ke Sat River, Nguyen Van Hon operates a floating sundries distributorship. The wooden hold of his boat is heavy with boxes containing small bars of Lifebuoy soap and single-use sachets of Sunsilk shampoo, which he sells to riverside shopkeepers for as little as 2.5? each...
...land where history is slow to evaporate, the events that unfolded in Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981 still hang thick in the air. i.r.a. prisoners, who were demanding political instead of criminal status, began a series of hunger strikes to get it. The British government refused to budge. So, one by one, 10 men starved themselves to death. The macabre drama was a low point of mutual, willful intransigence in the battle between the British state and Irish republicanism, and provoked the province to some of its worst bloodshed. The ghost of Bobby Sands, the first...
This warehouse-like space has it all—over a hundred games, go-carts, bumper cars, laser tag, a little roller coaster, billiards, batting cages, even a miniature bowling alley. Though it’s easy to get lost in the maze of video games and crowds of children, eventually you’ll discover the virtually deserted row of old school games. Be like Fred Savage from The Wizard on PacMan, Ms. PacMan, Atari Millipede, and Tetris...