One of the most curious chapters was the one on table settings, complete with diagrams anatomizing the shape and placement of fish forks, dessert spoons, and one's monogram.
Her family's artistic traditions have other curious chapters too — like the time she went to art school with her mom, Guadalupe Rodriguez, who is also a painter.
It took a history professor from Michigan to alert the state's environmental authorities to the radioactive contamination, and now a cleanup program has gotten under way to close a curious chapter in the state's industrial legacy.
Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies (1930) – a novel about dissolute young people pleasing themselves – has a curious chapter in which a character named Adam Fenwick-Symes sets off from London to the country with the aim of extracting money from his fiancée's father.
The first decade of the twenty-first century will be a curious chapter in the future history of evolutionary thought.
Head to Johnsville to experience the fun, or try your luck on a Longboard, recreating this curious chapter in California history.
The Transcontinental Railway is a curious historical chapter to evoke, even from the land of Lincoln.
Naturally the group has a Web site (www.worldlaughtertour.com) directing the curious to local chapters or "a Certified Laughter Leader in your area".
Martin Gardner gives an excellent description of Möbius strips and Klein bottles in the "Curious Topological Models" chapter of his Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions.
In an extremely curious, even bizarre, chapter of this history, Eleanor and her brothers, Arthur and Gerald, along with various close friends and colleagues, apparently developed a plot, supposedly with help from the "other side," to bring about the birth of a "spirit child" who could become a new Messiah, ushering in a reign of global peace (Roy, 2008, Gray, 2011).
Take, for example, a curious sentence in the chapter on human development in the Economic Survey, which accompanies the Indian budget document: "Economic policy has often to strike a delicate balance between the two goals of economic growth and human welfare which need not necessarily be contradictory". Isn't economic growth desirable only for its potential for enhancing human welfare?
