One man was in the trenches, one circling above: the ancient foot-slogger, the modern moth.In a war of many stages and theatres, the defining battle was Passchendaele on the Western Front, where both men fought.
It will be readily observed, for example, that the carpets are nearly threadbare, the kitchen linoleum is so ancient that feet stick to it in hot weather, and three of the conservatory windowpanes are reinforced with brown paper.
Hoplite, heavily armed ancient Greek foot soldier whose function was to fight in close formation.
Fitting shower curtains around an ancient claw-foot bathtub is a considerable challenge.
"Titanoboa," described as "an electromechanical reincarnation of the ancient 50-foot serpent rendered extinct by past climate change".
A QUARTER left," Ms. Heyman says to the tiller crew, steering to the center of the ancient 40-foot-deep Hudson channel.
Subsumed in the giddy crowd, we were carried through the entrance of the complex, also a Unesco World Heritage Site, which is dominated by an ancient 164-foot pyramid shrine called the Mahabodhi Mahavivihara.
Because of Kiawah's requirements, the Eliases' house, designed by Mr. Thomas, the Charleston architect, has become a twisting, winding structure that works its way around the trees, even circling around an ancient 15-foot-wide oak in the center of the property.
The trees we saw were about six inches in diameter, with several growing from an ancient stump six feet wide.
The island, with an area of 302 square miles (781 square km), is mountainous, and Mount Aínos (ancient Mount Aenos; 5,341 feet [1,628 metres]) is often snowcapped for months.
