According to Pliny, the custom of setting up honorific statues on columns was a comparably ancient one.

Two Irishmen, Pat and Mike, were walking along Broadway, and one said to the other, 'Begorrah, the race is not always to the swift,' and the other replied, 'Faith and begob, education is a drawing out, not a putting in.'"

Both D- and L-tryptophan are so similar that distinguition of one of the isomers from the other is impossible.

Several noirs, including “Raw Deal,” have been set here.