pull of the Earth(The ships will rise from the surface and accelerate to a high speed to pass over into the area where the pull of the Earth will begin speeding them up in the long fall back toward the station. alex)
lodestone(The Miami thoroughfare formally known as Southwest Eighth Street is the heart of Little Havana. It's the next-best-thing to visiting Cuba for many Americans, the lodestone of the large Cuban-American community that settled in Miami in waves after Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. VLZ_58)
mecca(1. a city in Saudi Arabia that is the holiest city of Islam, being the place where the Prophet Muhammad was born 2. (usually mecca) a place that many people like to visit, especially for a particular reason • The coast is a mecca for tourists. OALD. But there's a long way to go before Oryol becomes a mecca for tourism. BBC Alexander Demidov)
