Beneath your feet spreads out the world's largest carpet, made by a 1,200-strong 1,200-strongfinest Persiarmyarpet weavers.
According to Historian Alexander Mikaberidze, the French Army remained the finest army of its day by a good margin.
Let them read teasing snippets of the articles from an army of some of the finest writers on the planet.
Moreover, a retirement of this kind would have involved almost certainly the destruction of the fine Belgian army of over 20 divisions and the abandonment of the whole of Belgium.
Recorded in Berlin, they included his description of the German army as "a fine body of men, rather prettily dressed in green, carrying machine guns", and led to accusations of treason and to Wodehouse's investigation and interrogation by MI5.
It is now seven years since your diarist came to post, offering news and miscellany, interacting with our fine, knowledgeable, funny army of readers.
Tempting as it is to sniff at Eat's occasionally hamfisted attempts to be on trend ("siracha" sauce, anyone?), high street sarnies have improved, and beyond the chains there is an army of people in Britain making damn fine sandwiches.
Michael Gove's description of the witching hour before kids' bedtime is very entertaining, and Asher's own turn of phrase is often sharply witty, her caveat about gender quotas in parliament risking "a grim army of groupthink Ken and Barbies" being a fine example.
The army of political scientists and journalists who fine-tune themselves in the art of analysing power seem indifferent to this coup d'état.
If they do, there will be an army of Democrats ready to pay their fines and represent them legally.
