After it raced the naked, tittering, phosphorescent thing that belonged on the carven pedestal, and still farther behind panted the dark men, and all the dread crew of sentient loathsomenesses. The corpse was gaining on its pursuers …

We have our languages, our identity and our culture, and we prefer to muddle through by speaking some sort of “Swenglish”, “Danglish” or even “Finnlandic” with each other during the breaks and at dinner.

Fatigue or cracking due to cyclic loading of the overplate is influenced by its thickness.

South of Songpoling is Yuanchuan, a station on the famous Chichi Railway Line. Named after the picturesque small town of Chichi to the east, trains on this line take 50 minutes to travel the less than 30 km (19 miles) of narrow gauge that span the rustic countryside between Changhua and Nantou counties, making it the island’s most popular tourist railway line. Though Chichi was the epicenter of the 9-21 Earthquake (sometimes referred to in Taiwan as the Chichi Earthquake), and was nearly levelled, the railway line is already restored, the colonial-style station rebuilt, and the town on the way to recovery.