Ma Chien-chi 馬建奇 has been mentioned as a Muslim in D.D. Leslie, Islamic Literature in Chinese, Canberra 1981, p. 32. He was a native of Tso-yün 左雲 in Shansi, who had become a Metropolitan Graduate in 1733.

A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

you may see how powerable Time is in altering tongues

Presolar grains were isolated in primitive meteorites only 15 years ago. These grains of stardust formed in the atmospheres of evolved stars and in nova and supernova ejecta.