The Neolithic Revolution brought about the greatest material transformation in human history.

Tonight we get the Bridge-and-Tunnel People. He said this like, Tonight the Nazis attack. The Bridge-and-Tunnel People? They come from Jersey and Long Island to get drunk and have a good time.

A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.

As his correspondence with successive aristocratic First Lords of the Admiralty reveals, he was both unctuously deferential in his dealings with his official and social superiors, and capable sometimes of hoodwinking them.