With China’s cession of these territories at the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895, Japan acquired a strategic dimension appropriate to the age of imperialism. Not only could the navy establish an important base at Makung (known to Japanese navy men as Bakō) in the Pescadores, but these new semitropical territories could now be considered as stepping stones for a nanshin (southward advance) of Japanese power, commerce, and influence into southern China, Southeast Asia, and the South Pacific.

When Sharon took the Enneagram test, she came out as a 3w2.

Bullhorn acacia ants live off extrafloral nectar … and protein-rich Beltian bodies … of the host tree.

[…]commanded that part of his cavalery which was behind his foot, to charge the King's and the general's regiments in the flanck, just at the time when they were so warmly ingaged at push of pike with his men.