The remarried couples among my friends often joked that their divorce and remarriage amounted to an upgrade.

An ultrafilter is maximal in the sense that if any other element of the poset not already in it were added to it, one could deduce (from the laws which define the filter, and the given ordering relation, i.e., the structure of the poset) that the resulting filter must be improper; i.e., it must contain all the elements of the poset.

Soon he had a haggard, curlyhaired woman around the waist and she was tugging at his beard and they were passing the bottle back and forth.

The toombah, a drum with tin jingles and shells, accompanied songs and dances of Africans on Antigua. A report in 1844 mentions the “tum tum” (toombah) and […]