Fukang, which sits near regional capital Urumqi, decided to remove all matches from circulation to ensure they are not used by “terrorist groups or individual extremists to carry out criminal activities”, the People’s Daily said on its website. Police destroyed 20,223 boxes of matches, which will ensure that the city maintains its current peaceful environment, the newspaper added, citing the local government.

As we proceeded southwardly, the temperature grew milder, and the day closed with a calm and pleasant sunset.

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew, and so, in endless palingenesia, lives and works.

In his letter to Virginia's governor excerpted below, Rolfe tries to unsort the mixture of motives that led to his decision to marry Pocahantas.