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  • The former — if at least they would assert their claim to be really and truly Circles, and not mere high-class Polygons with an infinitely large number of infinitesimally small sides — were in the habit of boasting (what Women confessed and deplored) that they also had no sides, being blessed with a perimeter of one line, or, in other words, a Circumference.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions 2006

  • The former -- if at least they would assert their claim to be readily and truly Circles, and not mere high-class Polygons, with an infinitely large number of infinitesimally small sides -- were in the habit of boasting (what Women confessed and deplored) that they also had no sides, being blessed with a perimeter of only one line, or, in other words, a Circumference.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions Edwin Abbott Abbott 1882

  • Flying Solo Series presents Amy Salloway's "Circumference"; June 25-27

    Berks county news 2009

  • Created by award-winning Minneapolis actor/writer Amy Salloway, “Circumference” jumps back and forth between memories of the junior high Presidential Physical Fitness Test and the realities of life in a weight-hating world two decades later, to present a fearlessly honest and hilarious story of size, sweat … and exercising your demons.

    Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Bariatrics at the Fringe 2009

  • Chris Kelly points out that Beck's book is very much like Henderson's Circumference of Darkness ...

    Chris Kelly: Glenn Beck Says I Say He's a Plagiarist 2010

  • And I pointed out that the similarities were hardly surprising, since a man named Jack Henderson was both the author of Circumference and the ghostwriter of Overstock, or Overweight, or whatever Beck's awful book was called.

    Chris Kelly: Glenn Beck Says I Say He's a Plagiarist 2010

  • Chris Kelly points out that Beck's book is very much like Henderson's Circumference of Darkness ...

    Chris Kelly: Glenn Beck Says I Say He's a Plagiarist 2010

  • I selected Jack Henderson to help write this book because I read Circumference of Darkness!

    Chris Kelly: Glenn Beck Says I Say He's a Plagiarist 2010

  • And I pointed out that the similarities were hardly surprising, since a man named Jack Henderson was both the author of Circumference and the ghostwriter of Overstock, or Overweight, or whatever Beck's awful book was called.

    Chris Kelly: Glenn Beck Says I Say He's a Plagiarist 2010

  • I selected Jack Henderson to help write this book because I read Circumference of Darkness!

    Chris Kelly: Glenn Beck Says I Say He's a Plagiarist 2010

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