The sewerage and drainage of the town of Gibraltar, being upon a very defective system, greatly involve the sanitary welfare of the troops, many of the barrack buildings being immediately within the influences of such evil.

Brash wood, when tested in bending, breaks with a short, sharp fracture instead of developing a splintering failure and absorbs a comparatively small amount of work between the elastic limit and final failure

The nonfit males in the study were less willing to exercise.

Formed from a federation of different colonies (the depressed Maritimes, French Quebec, self-centred Ontario, pseudo-Texan Prairies, laid-back B.C., and Amerindish north) who /didn't/ revolt, in self-defense against the union of colonies who did, almost the only thing keeping it together is the rarely-mentioned threat that their revolting neighbours will be perfectly happy to take over, given the chance.