The egg is, as we have said, a kind of exposed uterus, and place in which the embryo is fashioned: for it performs the office of the uterus and enfolds the chick until the due time of its exclusion arrive, when the creature is born perfect. A translation of a passage from Harvey’s Exercitationes de generatione animalium (1651).

This dismal box, mounted nakedly on four frail wheels, was drawn along by a pale, lean horse, and the driver sat severe in his shirt-sleeves and tattered hat, like some desperate blackguard driving a night-cart.

The shooting escalated the existing hostility.

Like many Beijing landmarks - the Gate of Supreme Harmony, the Hall of Literary Glory, the Hall of Martial Valour - Tiananmen 's name, The Gate of Heavenly Peace, is abstract and absolute, an appellation bequeathed by Mao Zedong, The Great Helmsman, whose cult still lives on in his mausoleum in the square, and in the sale of kitsch Maomorabilia.