Originally designed to illustrate Kuwait and the oil pipelines, the 'sandpit', based on maps and photographs to a scale of 1:1,000,000, was extended to include other countries.

From the vulgar croud Though superstition, tyranness abhorr'd, The reverence due to this majestic pair With threats and execration still demands;

I knew I wasn't living right, but I'd grown up so sheltered and such a good girl that I kind of lost it when I experienced the independence of college life. I'd been tearing it up for a couple of years pretty consistently, but it was getting harder to maintain.

[…] which would you rather do: be in with a lot of greasy mechanics and laboring-men, or chum up to a real fellow like Lord Wycombe, and get invited to his house for parties?