I looked down into the Old Town [a canoe]; there was no yoke, only a straight ash thwart.

After enduring twenty centuries of criticism, Euclid's theory of parallels was fully vindicated in 1868 when Eugenio Beltrami proved the independence of Euclid's parallel postulate by constructing a Euclidean model of the hyperbolic plane.

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A round small Silver Watch[…]with a steel Chain[…]a brass Cock, an endless Screw