One curious point, never explained, is that he seems to have had this done by some neighbor girls named Bailey, rather than by his own family.

They came out raising my brother and myself with the idea that it didn ’ t look like there was any God as far as they could see, but if we wanted to explore it for ourselves at a point where we were old enough and curious enough, then they wouldn't have any objections.

Haughey's personal wealth and extravagant lifestyle – he owned racehorses, a large motor sailing yacht Celtic Mist, a private island, and a Gandon-designed mansion – had long been a point of curious speculation ; he had refused throughout his career to answer any questions about how he financed this lifestyle on a government salary.

As a draughtsman of architecture, Méryon was complete ; his sympathy with its various styles was broad, and his work on its various styles unbiased and of equal perfection -- a point in which it is curious to contrast him with J. M. W.

Von Windisch wrote at one point that Kempelen " refused the entreaties of his friends, and a crowd of curious persons from all countries, the satisfaction of seeing this far-famed machine.

For the curious virgins, I say give it a shot only if you can handle what has been described up until this point ; if you can get through Faces of Death, then you can get through just about anything.

A curious meteorological application of this theorem involves considering the wind as a vector defined at every point continuously over the surface of a planet with an atmosphere.

Bignell records that: she "... took a rather curious fancy to Grain as a chosen departure point for trips to Germany " and there are claims that Port Victoria " was built essentially as a railway station at the end of a line from Windsor ".

Christianizing Plato, he refutes pagan idolatry as filled with contradictions and openly immoral, and to demonstrate this point, his Books III through V abound with curious information gathered from reliable sources ( e. g. Cornelius Labeo ) concerning the forms of idolatrous worship, temples, idols, and the Graeco-Roman cult practice of his time, to the historian and mythographer's cautious delight, but all held up by Arnobius for Christian ridicule.

John Updike's New Yorker review is still a helpful starting point for curious onlookers.

A number of curious objects appear in Neville's drawings, which point ultimately to the murder of Mr. Herbert, whose body is discovered in the moat of the house.

" To the modern mind, this seems a curious and perhaps incomprehensible point of view, but the modern man does not embrace the concept either that one class of people was explicitly set above all others and destined from birth to rule.

Although this represents a curious judgment of his music, which is often flashy and energetic, it may reflect a nature that allowed him to drift gently from view to a point of obscurity where it became necessary to inquire in the Journal general de la France ( 27 November 1788 ) ' what has become of M Duphlis, former harpsichord teacher in Paris, where he was in 1767.

He points out that, as far as he knows, no one has ever been mesmerized at the point of death, and he is curious to see what effects mesmerism would have on a dying person.

A curious point is the naming of the streets ; it is often a difficult area for visitors to navigate on account of confusing street names, with an unusually high proportion named after either fruits or apparent ' somebodies '.

This short story starts out from the point of view of a crawler constructing one of its curious hives.

" Here we arrive at the most curious point of Chinese social psychology.

Despite being below 2, 000 ft it is the highest point for about 5 miles in any direction ; a consequence of the curious fact that the centre of the district is lower than the surrounding parts.

Other trainers point out that the very act of catching and training horses is not " natural " at all, that everything people do with horses is not actually " natural " to the horse, although other authors such as Scanlon indicate that " Domestication < nowiki > the horse was a natural consequence ... for those .. who were more curious, less territorial, less aggressive, more dependant </ nowiki > better able to deflect human aggression through submission ".

Once, Cicero and Pompey succeeded in inviting themselves to dinner with Lucullus, but, curious to see what sort of meal Lucullus ate when alone, forbade him to communicate with his slaves regarding any preparation of the meal for his guests.

From the same time dates a curious dispute regarding the etiquette of precedence among the scholars greeting the exilarch Talmud Ta ' an.

The curious thing was that all these and many more have sung the Vachanas ( sayings ) regarding their vocations in a very suggestive imagery.

There have been many theories regarding the date and sources of this curious work Alexander romance.

As blood sugar testing for diagnosis of diabetes became more widespread, a curious side effect occurred: because blood sugar testing is not absolutely definitive in diagnoses of diabetes, more and more people were receiving borderline tests regarding their glycemic status.

The curious ' trucker's gear change ' from G minor to C minor is because the second half of the verse is the same as the first half, but transposed up a fourth.

It is curious to note that the original French play of Le Barbier de Séville endured a similar story, hated at first only to become a favorite within a week.

On that first trans-Atlantic voyage, Columbus and his sailors were greeted by the Arawak people of the Bahamas, who were kind and curious about the Spanish sailors, and offered food, water, and gifts.

The first town to appear on any map of Nobles County was a curious place called Gretchtown.

A curious event took place on Worthington ’ s very first Fourth of July celebration.

Whatever the truth of the first forty years of his life, he had certainly been a close and accurate observer, and had made himself acquainted with many curious and little-known phenomena, which he had stored up in a most tenacious memory.

In 1713, Arbuthnot continued his political satire with Proposals for printing a very curious discourse ... a treatise of the art of political lying, with an abstract of the first volume.

Its style is of the Gothic Revival architecture popular at the time, but Pevsner notes the curious construction where the stone has first been carved into the shape of bricks before being laid in courses.

Other significant and curious pieces of early legislation include the first licensing of hackney carriages ( 1662 ), an act against " excessive gaming " ( 1663 ) and a famous 1663 act authorizing the erection of toll gates on the Great North Road, the prelude to a series of acts to help finance road-building for highways.

* John Arbuthnot-Proposals for printing a very curious discourse ... a treatise of the art of political lying, with an abstract of the first volume (" The Art of Political Lying ")

At first impression, it may seem curious that Gates putting his regiments in the fashion was a grave tactical error, as Cornwallis had done exactly the same thing: his Loyalist troops faced the Continentals just as his Regulars faced the militia.

Since it was the first design from Junkers to serve in the Luftstreitkräfte's " J-class " of armored, infantry co-operation aircraft, which also had aircraft designed by Albatros and AEG serving with it in the same capacity, the curious and confusing instance of the Junkers J 4 armored all-metal sesquiplane getting the German military designation " J. I " was one caused solely by the Luftstreitkräfte's choice of letter for all of their armored, ground forces co-operation aircraft class in World War I, with other J-class aircraqft coming from Albatros Flugzeugwerke and the aviation division of AEG.

On 26 April, as more and more curious and friendly natives appeared, Cabral ordered his men to build an altar inland where a Christian Mass was held — the first celebrated on the soil of what would later become Brazil.

On the first of these visits he met a fellow bibliophile, Petrarch, who records his impression of Aungerville as " not ignorant of literature and from his youth up curious beyond belief of hidden things.

Grey reef sharks are often curious about divers when they first enter the water and may approach quite closely, though they lose interest on repeat dives.

From its curious and irregular shape it is commonly called the ‘ Hunchback Bridge ’; also the ‘ Devil ’ s Bridge ’ after many legends: the famous legend tells that it was built by the Devil in one night after he made a pact with Saint Columbanus who promised him the soul of the first passerby ; but when the bridge was finished the Irish Saint sent a dog.

Such tall bookcases with doors glazed like paned windows, were a contemporary innovation, but Pepys was alert and curious and well-connected in London, and there is no reason to think his " book-presses " were the very first with glass-paned doors.

The first avenue on the left, beyond Nutgrove House, is Whitehall Road where stands that curious structure known as the Bottle Tower or Hall's Barn.

In 1938 he made the first thorough examination of a curious clay jar in the National Museum of Iraq ( of which he was the director ), now known as the Baghdad Battery.

The New York Times remarked that the first senate was " representative of all classes ", though it has also been described as, " the most curious political grouping in the history of the Irish state ".

Prosecutors asked why Sheppard hadn't called out for help, why he had neatly folded his jacket on the daybed in which he said he'd fallen asleep, and why the family dog — which several witnesses had testified ( in the first trial in 1954 ) was very loud when strangers came to the house — had not barked on the night of the murder ( recalling the famous Sherlock Holmes remark about " the curious incident of the dog in the night-time ," with its implication that the dog knew the criminal ).

(...) The system of this curious, and it should seem actually serious, plan — as far as we can learn — is as follows: — Every person, of either sex, who desires to enter into a treaty of marriage, is first to subscribe a certain sum.

In contrast to the earlier version the ' C ' Division was a curious amalgamation of minor clubs and reserve teams: in its first season it was made up of the first teams of ( promoted as champions ), Leith Athletic ( also promoted ), East Stirlingshire, Forfar Athletic,, and.

The first track, " Summer Rain ", deals with a man's yearning for his girlfriend, Kelly thought the sentiment would translate well but found a curious Belgian interviewer asked, " But why would anybody long for rain in summer?