1. Yongle Temple (Shanxi Province) This temple located in Ruicheng County, in the southwestern corner of Shanxi Province, was originally situated on the banks of the Huanghe River in Yongle, a town bearing the same name as the temple.

I would advise you to accept these as an instalment of a volume, (they are not big enough to make one themselves) with the promise that the stories to come should be more striking, more original in theme — not less so, not mere makeweights — than those under consideration.

I arrived in Chi quite early in the morning, got a room in the Y, and went to bed with a very few dollars in my pocket.

What I find most intriguing is the octopus's ability to adapt to new and unusual circumstances—confinement in a lab—and turn the apparatus around them to their own octopodean purposes. A lot of early octopus work was done in Italy, […]