The Chinese use of Pascal's Triangle predates its discovery by Blaise Pascal.

Proficient in Church Slavonic (necessary for the psalomshchik), fluent and literate in both Unalaskan Aleut and in Russian, conversant also in English, and an Aleut-Russian himself, he wrote this lengthy letter, and others published in the same collection, in the Unalaskan Aleut language.

The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.

[…] she concentrated on the foam in the sink, tempering the water.