Both stretches of cobblestones encountered Tuesday -- the second was a kilometer long -- appear every spring in the Paris-Roubaix race, which includes 55 kilometers of pavé, as the stones are known in French, the language of bicycle racing.
But, more important, it had Mr Ponticelli, who up to his 111th year appeared every November 11th in his flat cap and brown coat, lean and bright-eyed, gamely managing the few steps required to lay his small bunch of carnations there.
They appear every 10-20 minutes.
Stapleton interviews about 35,000 people a year for his column, which appears every day except Christmas.
The hugely popular ZooLights, a high-wattage Brigadoon that appears every year in late November and December, festoons the zoo with more light bulbs than you'll find in a Home Depot.
The microscopic algae appears nearly every summer, but it's never been this bad, Norris said.
The ozone hole has appeared every Antarctic winter since scientists began taking measurements in 1985.
Yet, "major cyanobacteria blooms have appeared nearly every summer for a while now, and they always look like this in the satellite data," explained Nasa oceanographer Norman Kuring.
The vast majority of parents with marijuana in their homes go to great efforts to keep it out of the hands of their children, just as they do with alcohol, cigarettes, toxic household cleaning products and those little liquor-filled chocolates that appear every year around Christmas and New Year's Eve.
