How can I live among this gentle
obsolescent breed of heroes, and not weep?
Dens of the description of the Tapis Franc, and the deadfalls of San Francisco and Sacramento, are now matters of history only, and it seems beyond the bounds of probability that similar haunts of vice, and the brutal and lawless scenes there enacted, will ever again be permitted to disgrace our country, and the name of civilization.
[…] another standard of excellence: the ability to con, or “snow.” […] ¶ The coup de grâce of Parker’s little folly was the club’s slickly produced rule book, which the Colonel called a Confidential Report Dealing with Advanced Techniques of Member Snowers, prepared by a team “notably skilled in evasiveness and ineptitude.”
Recently a stable monolayer of antimony in buckled honeycomb structure called antimonene was successfully grown on 3D topological insulator Bi₂Te₃ and Sb₂Te₃, which displays semiconducting properties.