There was nothing but good fellowship on the other's face, as though their social differences were some historical oddity.
One hopes that the voice, like other national treasures and historical oddities, goes to a worthy museum someday.
But deciding on a fair price for the historical oddity has so far held up the transaction and left all involved scratching their heads.
The game is more interesting for some historical oddities.
"The polls may show Clinton ahead, but by Election Day they'll be nothing more than historical oddities."
The situation presents a historical oddity: the last time a president lived in the White House without a wife was more than 80 years ago.
"We have this historical oddity and it seems to me that what the governor is doing is facing up to that."
Today, these small reproductions are a historical oddity and not found in any of Gray's surviving gallery network.
But after 30 years of planning and construction, it is instead seen by some critics as nothing but a historical oddity.