From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.

This was done by a great Farmer, that lived about two Miles distant from me, who, by good Plowings and Dungings, in the Year 1739, had got his gravelly and chalky loamy Land in very fine Order, for sowing it with Wheat […]

The ability to produce well defined electric fields with these electrode arrays enables one to electrophoretically transport those charged particles to or from any micro location on the surface of the device submerged in the analyte solution.

… at each station the train times are not shown in one all-embracing chronological list, but in two separate sheets, one with a conspicuous band of yellow detailing westbound departures and the other with a similar band of blue the eastbound trains.