‘Holden!’ Mrs Spencer said. ‘How lovely to see you! Come in, dear! Are you frozen to death?’ I think she was glad to see me. She liked me. At least, I think she did.

The people and army from the north entered the northern part of Hupeh (north of Hsiang-yang, Ku-ch'eng and Chu-shan) during the Ch'in and Han dynasties to engage in the work of reclamation.

A brigander - better known as a brigandine - was a closefitting jacket lined with small overlapping plates of iron which were fastened by rivets to their textile covering.

The newspaper wrote that Jorn Barger, who started his Robot Wisdom weblog in 1997, is regarded by many as the first blogger. But who are these many? If a blogger had written that phrase, it would have come with a link to the source. The Wall Street Journal's unsupported claim, though hedged with admissions of other contenders to the first blogger title, only reinforced the feeling, endemic among bloggers, that the mainstream media, derisively acronymised as MSM, just can't get anything right.