For 20 years, the Moroccan desert has drawn teams of hardy souls for a peculiar nine-day adventure, the Rallye Aïcha des Gazelles.
Their life story became entwined with Christie's when, in 1928, after the collapse of her first marriage and a peculiar 11-day disappearance – after which she was found safe at a hotel in Harrogate checked in under a pseudonym – she boarded the Orient Express for the first time.
Antananarivo, the capital of this vast island, is a nervous and peculiar place these days.
Already known for his eccentric behaviour in the studio, Spector was in a peculiar mood that day, as balance engineer Peter Brown recalled: "He wanted tape echo on everything, he had to take a different pill every half hour and had his bodyguard with him constantly.
The Jets have taken a peculiar comfort in recent days in their experience at coming back from deep in a hole.
Herein, presumably, lies his appeal to Carrère: a case of fiction intruding into reality, as well as that peculiar sense of wasted days and hanging around with which Carrère, as a writer, could easily identify.
Disdainful though it is, "At Swim-Two-Birds" can be wonderfully written, with an offhand lilt that twists the drab ordinary into a peculiar precision: On wet days there would be an unpleasant odour of dampness, an aroma of overcoats dried by body-heat.
Yet, over three days the peculiar manifested itself as perfection as God revealed deeper meaning and purpose to our work and presence there in the National Historic District.
She says the timing of the accusation is peculiar, since it comes days after A&E aired a documentary featuring her husband.
Test cricket's slow days and peculiar customs are a world away from the slickly relentless machine that is 21 st century football.
