"I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold - William Carlos Williams"

Heritage Conservation Districts are districts which restrict the development of housing and other infrastructure in set areas due to evaluated historic value and architecture.

You stroll up next to a Tim Horton's on a cold winter day. It is busy but not packed. There are families sharing laughter around boxes of donuts, construction workers warming up their hands on their steaming double doubles, and a few grumpy university students getting in their caffeine fix.

Excavations of ancient statues reveal meticulously crafted depictions of people in pale marble, stone, or other earthen materials. Museums typically display these statues in this form. However, these statues where historically polychromatic, their pigments wearing away over time. Some excavated statues have traces of pigment, but are scrubbed for display. Polychromatic replicas have been described as looking "gaudy" and "cheap", partially explained by the hues too flat and opaque, and the plaster from which most of the replicas are made absorbing paint in a way that marble does not.

There is an adorable little pine tree on the side of the highway. It's fluffy bundles of deep green needles stand out amongst the shorter, yellow-green needled, longer branched trees in the forest surround it.

Commercialization is the process of bringing new products or services to market. The commercialization of sports is that aspect of the sports enterprise that involves the sale, display, or use of sport or some aspect of sport so as to produce income.

Currently, WUDC and Australs employ an affirmative action policy that requires at least one-third of each institution's contingent to be non cis-male. The policy was promoted to increase diversity but also to encourage participation from less-represented groups

You are Lord Halifax. The year is 1940. You supported Chamberlain's policy of appeasement prior to World War 2. There is an up-and-coming MP called Winston Churchill who advocated in favour of British militarization during the 1930s.

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was a leading financial institution that catered to the tech industry and had became the preferred bank of almost half of all venture-backed tech startups. In March 2023, amid an environment of central bank-endorsed interest rate hikes following a period of global inflation, there was a run on its deposits, which led to its collapse and seizure on March 10, 2023 by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI), its regulator. Citing inadequate liquidity and insolvency, state officials at the DFPI appointed the FDIC receiver of the bank. This marked the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history and took place alongside similar issues noted in other banks.On March 12, 2023, a joint statement was issued by Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, and FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg, stating that all depositors at SVB would be fully protected and would have access to both insured and uninsured deposits starting the following Monday, March 13. The FDIC then established a bridge bank successor, Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, N.A., which quickly assumed ongoing business.