Along a 1.5-mile (2.5-km) stretch of the Tiber, around a big bend in its course, lie all the historic quarters of the river plain.
It is situated at a big bend in the Yangtze River, about a hundred and fifty miles upriver from Shanghai, in Zhangjiagang, a giant factory city, built so recently that there's been no time to name all the streets.
The Platte flows southeast into a big bend at Kearney, curves northeast, and travels east, south, and east again before emptying into the Missouri River at Plattsmouth, about 20 miles (32 km) south of Omaha.
Another couple spending a few months as volunteers in a Big Bend campground divides their time between various national parks: summer in Yellowstone, winter in Big Cypress preserve in Florida.
Looking over the vista, with its view of a red-rock butte and a big bend in the Colorado River down below, the president remarked that Malia wanted to know why the tops of the canyon were so perfectly straight.
Founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne in 1718 on a big bend in the Mississippi (hence the nickname "Crescent City"), ruled for decades by Spain, it came under American control with the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
As we sat down for a rest around the halfway point, perching on smooth rocks and looking out at a big bend in the Firth, Manny told me about how his mother was one of the key leaders in establishing the land claim agreement that created the park.
During milling, much longer tool may render the tool to withstand a much bigger bending stress, which would likely cause the tool to break or be damaged.
In the end, it may be that the unfortunate events unfolding at Duke will expose a bigger problem: bending admissions standards to enroll athletes who do not belong there.
It's not a short corner, it's a very big bend, and we're some way around it and we've still got a long way to go.
