Sheep and flax produce the natural fibers wool and linen.

There is some evidence to suggest that in whispered speech, particularly stage whispered speech, the larynx is raised appreciably.

Cattaneo, Lazzaro Jesuit missionary, born Sarzana near Genoa, 1560, died Hangchow, 16 January 1640. He entered the Society of Jesus at Rome in 1581; was in Goa in 1588 as superior of the Malabar coast mission. By 1593 he was in Macao, from where he went to Chaoking to study Chinese with Matteo Ricci, and accompanied him to Peking in 1598.

[W]here ſoeuer poſſeſſyons be pryuate, where moneye beareth all the ſtroke, it is hard and almoſte impoſſyble that there the weale publyque maye iuſtelye be gouerned and proſperouſlye floryſhe: […]