Yo was tuckin' in his shirt! (Stotko and Troyer 2007)

The Chinese, ever since the first century of our era, have called the countries which we to-day name Kashgar and Sungaria, routes. They referred them to their relative position on the two sides of the Tian-Shan, and called our Sungaria, Pe-lu, northern route, and our Kashgar, Nan-lu, southern route. The Turks gave other names to these countries; they called the northern route besh-balik, the five cities, Pentapolis; the southern route was alti-shehr, the six cities, Hexapolis.

While an angstfic can focus mostly on emotional pain and never resolve it, actually doing something awful to a character, such as torture, rape, maiming, that kind of thing, seems to require a payoff. Otherwise it seems gratuitous, and also as if you're inviting people to take pleasure in a character's suffering.

The generation of combinatorial types of point configurations and hyperplane arrangements point configurations and hyperplane arrangements has long been an outstanding problem of combinatorial geometry.