The pistons are driven by steam power.

[T]he spring has set in with more than usual severity, the famous horse-chestnut tree of the Tuileries is covered with snow in place of leaves, and spongy April, instead of betrimming our banks with peonied and lilied brims has nipped the too early blossoms, frozen the bubbling brooks, and produced a fourth course of cough, catarrh, and cold, which have seized old and young, rich and poor, in their relentless grasp.

An andesite-dacite stratovolcanic chain, sub-parallel to the Carpathian arc, was formed 17-12 Ma ago (Harangi et al. 2007).

Several autonomous areas were established for the scattered groups of Mongols that remained, while some half-million culturally-tenacious Koreans, along the eastern border of Kirin, formed the Yen-Pien Autonomous District.