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  Inside the exclusion zone surrounding Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, homes and restaurants are still abandoned despite Japan’s plan to lift the evacuation order.

China's mines lie eerily quiet for Olympics
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Routine parts of everyday life in China, like mine disasters, have been put on hold until after the Olympics. The rabbit warrens of small, privately owned ...

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is one of the eerie, exuberant joys of Middle English poetry. The poem was created in the latter part of the 14th century by an unknown author who probably hailed from the West Midlands of England. He knew the spoken dialect of the rugged country between north Staffordshire and south Lancashire.

A Stranger in Camelot

Ken Orvid

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An illustration from The Sphere magazine showing the Knights of the Round Table.

hail from somewhere phrasal verb FORMAL
to come from or to have been born in a particular place:
Joe originally hails from Toronto.

eerie
adjective
strange in a frightening and mysterious way:
She heard the eerie noise of the wind howling through the trees.
He had the eerie feeling that he had met this stranger before.

eerily  
adverb
Her voice was eerily similar to her dead grandmother's.