Arthur Conan Doyle's stories also evoke Victorian London with its sinister fogs, a pasture for predators.

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Seasonal fogs on the red planet would moisten the rocks with enough water to supply resident organisms.

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Since July the Bay Area has been practically pushed into Nevada by these cold fogs--which seem worse this year.

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For as long as people have turned telescopes towards the moon, they have reported flashes, sudden fogs and colour changes.

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Deutsche Bank produced poor returns in 2001, although a move to American accounting and a change in German tax laws fogs comparison.

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Cruise ship passengers with any company are accustomed to schedules being changed at short notice, whether it is as a result of storms, fogs, strikes or political events.

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Our breath fogs any window we turn to.

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Like the brooding Manhattan of the "Godfather" films, this Gotham is an organic entity, whether pelted by yellow rain reminiscent of "Blade Runner, " overrun by criminal lunatics sprung from their asylums, or beset by toxic fogs.

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Next arrived the famous Culatello di Zibello or regional Parma ham aged for one year along the Po River -- an area whose winter fogs and humid summers make the air unlike any other in the world, plus the local Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, aged 30 months.

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