Nazareth, Pennsylvania, is home to the fastest one-mile tri-oval in the world, one on which Rick Mears had often raced.
And yet, the world on which Amis etches his plot is one where people rarely enjoy a meeting of voices, let alone a meeting of minds.
The descriptions of the world on which Ransom arrives are Lewis's most impressive imaginative achievement.
The Protestant Reformation was a precursor of the very modern world on which Benedict's Vatican has turned its back.
I asked him if there were aspects of terrorism or the Muslim world on which Giuliani might disagree with him.
The North Atlantic was the only part of the world on which the airlines had any hope of a coherent business plan for the supersonic era.
In 1529 Diego Ribero, cosmographer to the king of Spain, made a new chart of the world on which the vast extent of the Pacific was first shown.
But there's probably no better street in the world on which to sit in a cafe over a kaffee mélange and wonder about such things.
Eventually (spoilers for a decade-old game) the player sparks an overload of the ship's fusion reactors, destroying it and the world on which it sits.
The blogosphere, as I once before described it, is the biggest lavatory wall in the world, on which anonymous graffitists scrawl their wit, wisdom, fatuities and futilities.
