But if any man should profess to believe these things, and yet allow himself in any known wickedness, such a one should be put into bedlam.

After lighting a common fuse, the hwacha fired as many as a hundred arrows, all of which landed in a precise spot.

That's the advantage of anadromy (a sea-run life history): The ocean years allow fast growth.

"The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down and crawl under, losing face.