A brief fashion for high-class courtesans in Cogburgh to display their skills in riding wurms was cut short after a series of regrettable, predictable incidents.

The University of Ringfast has the world's largest and most prestigious department of Ornithography.

The Blue Quarter of Krantzberg is built from Suspendium-laced bricks. There, the poorest citizens have the best view and the most accidents.

Celebration of a recent international agreement banning the use of pleurotic rays in warfare was swiftly undercut by the realisation that pleurotic rays were made up by the noted scientific con-man Hasdrubal C. Pleurotus.

Proponents of what is called New Archeology suggest that instead of simply detonating ruins until something valuable appears, we should carefully send in in locals with pickaxes.