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When it comes to the lucrative search market, Google, not Microsoft, is the 800-pound gorilla.

According to the description our captain had given me of Peter Sandaker once when he had dropped behind on the march, he was particularly good at telling tales and stories about goblin-birds, doubles, and fairies, and had a special fancy for entering into the most minute details, whenever he commenced telling about one or the other of the eighteen bears he had killed in his time.

Equally remarkable are the bronzes found in the tombs of the state of Chung-shan at P'ing-shan, Hopei Province.²¹ Chung-shan was one of the smaller peripheral states that contended for survival with Chao, Ch'i, Ch'in, Ch'u, Han, Wei, and Yen, the powerful states that dominated events during the Warring States period.²² The Chung-shan people traditionally are said to have been descended from the nomadic Pai-ti tribes, who are believed to have made incursions into the area of northern Shensi and northwestern Shansi as early as the eighth century B.C.²³ By the sixth century B.C. when the Pai-ti had settled in Hopei Province, they were referred to as the Hsien-yü.²⁴ In spite of several serious political reversals, the state of Chung-shan managed to exist side by side with its ambitious neighbors until 296 B.C. when it was defeated by the state of Chao.