The capture, by the Taipings, of the Hoifung and Lukfung district cities (in the N.E. of Hongkong) in September, 1854, seriously interfered, for a time, with the market supplies of the Colony.

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Alison Dundes Renteln's chapter (Chapter 14) shows how women seeking hymenoplasty (revirgination surgery) are sometimes met with resistance from their own physicians.

Take a Brunonian list, or New Yorkian; / Lineups of Michigan, Fordham or Yale, / And tell me whence Niemiec, Magal, and Kevorkian, / Sjostrom, Wisniewski, and Kovalcheck hail!