"We saw huge fire whorls all night, " said Fred Kaninski, fire behavior analyst for the Holloway Fire.

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She was the prettiest, most perfect, deeply pink baby we had ever seen, with slim lovely limbs and dark hair growing in whorls over her temples and forehead.

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Although identical twins tend to share whorls, loops and arches in their fingerprints because of their common heredity, the precise patterns of their prints are not the same.

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In 1892 Galton looked at the pattern of whorls, arches and loops that make up fingerprints, and estimated that the chance of two prints matching at random was about one in 64 billion.

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The place is so iconic that thousands of Irish draw straws every year for the chance to be among the lucky ten or twenty to squeeze 60 feet into the magic chamber whose surrounding walls are inscribed with runic whorls, serpent forms, chevrons, and spiral signs of infinity.

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