He then built a settlement in southern Cyuanjhou and from there dispatched trading vessels to Japan, Taiwan, Manila and other destinations.[…] Between 70 to 80 percent of immigrants were from the Jhangjhou and Cyuanjhou regions (Hoklos), 20 percent were from the Jiaing and Chaojhou regions (Hakkas), and only 1 percent from other prefectures of Fujian or other provinces.

I don’t doubt the time- and hassle-saving example, but my guess is that for every one of those there are 999 Tweets about going to the mall or going to see friends or going to see friends at the mall.[…]Twitterers join lists of people they want to follow (not my word, but I like it), and if they follow 15 people who send out five Tweets each, that’s a lot of techno-sludge to wade through every day.[…]Most of the politicians who aren’t boring are offensive, and any journalist who can tell a story in 140 characters—that’s the maximum Tweet length—isn’t writing about anything that interests me.

Much worse then the former; for who that is experienced in those partes and knoweth not that the Oneales are neerely alied unto the Mac Oneales of Scotland, and to the Earle of Argill, from whom they use to have all ther succors of those Scottes and Redshanks?

The sediment remaining in the screen was collected, wet-sieved and sorted for fauna and microartifacts such as microliths and beads.