Several goblins lay dead around the campsite, but many had escaped without serious injury. Dang gobbos. Ged cursed, spitting on a goblin corpse as he yanked his heavy axe […]

For instance, one day she arranged for me to sneak into the palace anderun, not for our nighttime frolic, but in the afternoon, […]

Genghis Khan initiated Beijing's nearly 800-year dominance over the Middle Kingdom. The city's current population numbers ten million people, far more than lived here in 1215 A.D. when the Mongol warlord conquered the strategically significant power center of Yanying and built Khanbalik, his new residence.

The Mazdayasnian creed attained dominance in the Achaemenid (559–336 BCE) and the Sasanian (ca. 224–651 CE) Persian Empire.