In 1911, the Eastern hemoclysm, a Greek term for blood flood, began with the ousting of the Manchu dynasty in China, leading to thirty-eight years of Civil War and a Japanese invasion.

I said that I did not believe anyone could write any way except the very best he could write without destroying his talent.

That is some ginchy girl!

These species contain mainly pennogenyl and diosgenyl glycosides [2 ] which are physiologically active compounds [3, 4 ] and play an important role in the treatment of neoplasms, hemostatic disturbances, inflammation and fungal infection [5 –7 ].