Depending on your age and interests, you will know Mikhail Baryshnikov either as one of the most graceful creatures that ever set foot on a stage, in the same league as Nureyev and Nijinsky, or as that Russian bloke from Sex and the City.
Or maybe, we should try to figure out what "tradition" meant to the first British American settlers that ever set foot on this continent because to them, "tradition" probably meant the religious persecution by the royal government they were fleeing.
But like every England team that ever sets off for a football competition, haunted by the legends of 1966, the French team will be facing not only the opposing team as they step on to the pitch at the Stade de France, but also their country's history.
It is the popcorn flicks that this year more than ever set the tone, both in terms of their sheer numbers -- more than a half-dozen, double that of last year -- and because they seem to point the way to Christmases Future.
As I have been warning since 2006: there is not a country on the planet that you can name that has ever set in place a system of torture, and of detention without trial, for an "other", supposedly external threat that did not end up using it pretty quickly on its own citizens.
After all, in the green, reforested smorgasbord of the hills and valleys of the Northeast, we pretty much see all the creatures large and small that have ever set foot around here — tens of thousands of deer and Canada geese, of course; bears and wild turkeys; hawks and eagles; coyotes and fisher cats; bobcats and the rest.
Ill-armed, barefoot and hungry, the rebels fought against huge odds: Britain dispatched an armada of 218 ships to the Caribbean, and its troops battled for five years before withdrawing; Napoleon sent the largest force that had ever set sail from France, losing more than 50,000 soldiers and 18 generals to combat and disease.
But there's one thing that will never ever set a fire in my oven, and that is the idea of my parents debating the merits of my sex toys.
Does that concern you? A. I don't know that we ever set out to run the most efficient shop in town.
All that happened he ever set foot in Texas, which he saw as a land of promise.
Sophie snapped the radio off before he could complain, greeting him with "No one in that building has ever set foot in a public school".
