Lin's American informants soon warned him that the British warships had gone north so as to threaten the island of Chou-shan. The British authorities in London had been enlightened as to the strategic potentialities of Chou-shan - an island fifty-one miles around, which grew tea and made rice wine, and was placed off the mouth of China's largest river, the Yangtze.

Internationally, economists have been forecasting a lithium economy for decades, and it may well be that every car, computer, and wearable electronic device—not to mention our energy storehouses—will depend on lithium batteries the way I've relied on medicinal lithium for the last twenty years.

The faint words trailed off to the soft twock of wood on leather. Philp squinted up at the slate gray clouds scudding in from the Bay. Best we hurry if we mean to finish the last hole without a soaking, for there promises to be a spot of rain […]

King. Sweet Gertrude leave us too, For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither, That he, as 'twere by accident, may there Affront Ophelia. Her Father[ ]and my selfe (lawful espials) Will so bestow our selves, that seeing unseene We may of their encounter frankely judge