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The Istanbul Express, a specialty among the less reputable taverns along the Bosporus, is a series of demitasse cups filled with progressively more potent mixtures of raki, vodka, and, in the last cup, a float of butyllithium, which ignites upon contact with the air. Don’t try this one at home.

The lighter had good heft; a nice, solid feel in Boss Phelps' hand when he lit up one of his Cubans. It was also easy to clean off when he had to bash some numbskull for getting wise.

No one could resist the intoxicating scent and succulent flavor of the candied orange rinds Mrs Quinzell put out in the candy dish. It was so difficult to find food for her giant Dionaea muscipula "she called it Barnaby" without such an enticement.

They were called Cloud Gaze and Breeze Dancer, and Larry had always hoped they would fly him out of here. But Lucy deserved them more, he thought. The orderlies restraining him stared up in disbelief as she dipped them through the air, tentatively at first, then gracefully, and took to the sky. They suited her.

Noah Fenderman’s alphabetical menagerie of hand-carved wooden animals was coming along… more slowly than anticipated.

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It's almost exactly 4000 miles from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Fairbanks, Alaska, which ended up being 3,900 miles longer than the Bunvitch family needed to figure out that dad's "history of gold mining" road trip was his worst idea ever.

The Cistercian Order of Elba could be considered the original “tech bros,” developing the concept of the “blockchain” nearly a millennium before the Silicon Valley guys. Unfortunately, the idea proved impractical as it took a monk nearly seventy-six years to mathematically validate a single transaction. The gilded hand lettering certainly didn’t help speed things along.