Places
- Arc (Savoie), a river of eastern France, tributary of the Isère river
- Arc (Provence), a river of southern France, flowing into the Étang de Berre
- Les Arcs, a ski resort in the French Alps
- Volcanic arc, a chain of volcanoes positioned in an arc shape as seen from above
- Island arc, a type of archipelago composed of a chain of volcanoes which alignment is arc-shaped, and which are situated parallel and close to a boundary between two converging tectonic plates
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“There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear—the city of London and the South Seas.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)
“The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)