One of these gaps in Mrs. Assingham's completeness was her want of children; the other was her want of wealth. It was wonderful how little either, in the fulness of time, came to show; …

His royal highness the Prince of Wales has at present no guards to attendhim: he passes every day to and fro in the streets of London, and travels every where about London, without so much as one soldier to guard him; nay, he has not so much as one centry upon his house in St. James's Square; and yet his Royal Highness lives, I believe, in as great security at his house in 'St. James's Square, without one centry to guard him, as his Majesty can be supposed to do in St. Jame's Palace with all the guards about him.

A manifestation of Russian modernism that comprised those who had “overcome” symbolism, acmeism represents a facet of 20th-century Russian literature without a direct predecessor in Europe.

A new family of semiconductors has been synthesized for the first time in the form of wurtzite phase nanocrystals of Cu2ZnAS4−x and CuZn2AS4.