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Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times.

What would ye, ladies? It was ever thus. / Men are unwise and curiously planned.

In 2009, novelty toymaker Maxfield & Oberton released Buckyballs, sets of curiously powerful magnetic marbles that became the most popular cubicle toy since the Rubik's Cube, selling more than 2 million units in 15 countries.

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.