In the State Department, Africa was the poor relation, handled as a subsidiary of the Middle East Bureau.

Singular Mueller matrices play an important role in polarization algebra and have peculiar properties that stem from the fact that either the medium exhibits maximum diattenuation and/or polarizance, or because its associated canonical depolarizer has the property of fully randomizing, the circular component (at least) of the states of polarization of light incident on it.

“Don't be a clit-tease, Grant, or you'll learn the true depth of my badassness.”

The armies finally came to grips at Stalingrad.