Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.

[…] War of Macedonia with the Hellespontine cities

On the Tuesday after Miss Pettigrew's funderal Mr. Conrad Rackley returned to Neely in a rented truck thecab of which he shared with a pair of Masseys who we did not know for Masseys right off but who we recognized as relations on account of a common chinlessness, which is apparently the predominant Massey trait in the West Virginia end of Kentucky.

So all the knowledge about these times comes from literature and, while it is likely that the magnificence of their capital cities and palaces was exaggerated, it is clear that they were fairly remarkable. But just such a city was Hsien-yang, somewhere in the vicinity of modern Hsien-fu, which was big even by contemporary standards, its population reaching nearly a million, and Ch’i (an important state in Shantung) had a capital city measuring 1.5 by 3 kilometres (0.9 X 1.8 miles).