Living in Venice, California and training at the Mecca of bodybuilding, Gold's Gym, I've seen some of the world's most dedicated and hard-training athletes.

It is fitting, says Martin Ebon in his book “Saint Nicholas, Life and Legend,” that the relics of the saint who was eventually converted into jolly figure of Santa Claus should lie in or near New York City. Santa Claus, he says, is a peculiarly New Yorkian creation.

The infinite Loch Ness monster and Jacob's ladder (Figure 12.1.1) are diffeomorphic surfaces.

What we have seen is that a simple binary system of Anglophobe versus Anglophile and Germanophobe versus Germanophile grossly misrepresents the character of Anglo-German relations and antagonism in the pre-1914 era.