He is a poor wretch, with a little thin fishy blood in his body, lean and flat, long-armed and large-handed, thick-jointed and thin-muscled -- you know those unwholesome, weak-eyed, half-fed creatures, that look not fit to be round among live folks, and yet not quite dead enough to bury.

Based on the number of teeth ammonites had—nine—it's believed that their closest living kin are octopuses.

As known, the Slovaks found themselves part of the Kingdom of Hungary after the disintegration of the Great Moravian Empire around AD 905. Within Hungary, they were designated as being Slavi in official documents (charters, laws), and in medieval chronicles such as that penned by an anonymous notary of King Béla III at the beginning of the thirteenth century. […] As the Slovaks had not established their own state they continued to be known as Slavi, a term that was the Latin equivalent of the Old Slavic Slavieni.

Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament, To rive their dangerous artillery