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The ribs of the cathedral’s high vault are joined at carved and painted keystone medallions, a typically Catalan feature.
If you're in the market, Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle will teach you how to 1) kill with a bayonet (thrust deep under ribs, drag in slow, deep circle to scramble organs); 2) skin a man alive (slit skin at shoulder, peel slowly down right arm); and 3) eliminate a zoo full of carnivores (four snipers per tiger best).
According to Bremer and Humphries [ 2 ] , the Artemisia -group is monophyletic and defined by heterogamous-disciform capitula (disk florets usually bisexual and fertile, ray florets pistillate) or homogamous-discoid capitula (disk florets usually bisexual and fertile, ray florets absent), pollen with short or no spines (associated with anemophily), and thick-walled cypselas devoid of ribs (sometimes faint ribs are present in Sphaeromeria and Crossostephium ). All of the Artemisia -group genera contain species that have been variously placed within the taxonomic boundaries of Artemisia s.l.
(I like giggles, and I love ribs, and yet ...)
McLaughlin even ribs his new panelist on his wardrobe (Thomson is wearing a dapper suit--with vest--and spectacles).