Residents of Pomona were reportedly pleased with the neighborhood's Seussification, which saw the production team creating facades for a quarter of the buildings — painting everything to conform to Anville's limited and loud color palette […]

[David] Brog spoke movingly of his immigrant grandfather as a triumph of the assimilationist model—a Romanian Jew who emigrated to America, learned English, and became a good patriotic American—but failed to mention that the 1924 Immigration Act was designed specifically to exclude Eastern European Jews (among other undesirable European ethnic groups) from entering the country.

an onion dome may have a shape that is somewhat more than a half sphere and may be pointed at the top

The Twite has the distinction of being the only European bird derived from the Tibetan fauna type.