| Sofi is the story's manic pixie dream girl there to provide the pulsating literary Old World heart to Karen and Ian's just-the-facts rationality. |
| Forages the researchers are working with include native rangeland, winter wheat, Sudan grass, Old World bluestems, and wheatgrasses. |
| Additional Old World families of this large order include bee-eaters, ground-rollers, hoopoes, wood-hoopoes, and hornbills. |
| Homesick colonists brought their favorite flowers, medicinals, and edibles from the Old World. |
| Old World leaf-nosed bats are sometimes regarded as a subfamily of the Rhinolophidae. |
| Tall fescue, a vigorous Old World grass introduced to the New more than a century ago, now reigns over much of this region. |
