On 9 September 2015, Queen Elizabeth II became Britain's longest-serving monarch, having outreigned Queen Victoria.
Nankan, the biggest island, is 20,000 meters from the mainland. Kaoteng is only 9,000 meters offshore. In the 1950s, when the Communists were shelling Quemoy, shells aimed at Nankan fell into the ocean. Since then the Communists have extended the range of their artillery.[…] There has been no attempt to mount an amphibious assault on Matsu, and with good reason. Nankan is almost straight up and down and nearly devoid of landing places. Embryo beaches are guarded by barbed wire and mines. Traffic in and out of Nankan is by landing boat and planking. No wharves have been built.
Had Radulph Tubbs such luck with tombs it is probable that he […] would have uncovered only the four canopic jars containing, respectively, the large intestines, small intestines, heart, and liver.
Within ten years linches were formed; rain washed down the mould, some accident arrested it at a certain line, and a terrace was the result. Certainly the tendency is for the upper part of such a field to be denuded of mould, to be worked to the bone, i.e. to the bare chalk or stone. But the first makers of linches had no choice. They had to farm on slopes or not at all, […]
to the bone,
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