The last stretch, from K'uei Fu to Chungking, is soothing to the eye after the harsh vistas of the Gorges.[…]
Fengtu, a celebrated town, which owes all its fame to being situated at the foot of the Sacred Mountain of the Son of Heaven, is the residence of the Emperor of the Dead. Just as the Emperor of the Living resided at Peking, the Emperor of the Dead has some occult existence here. When any Taoist believer dies, a priest writes a despatch to the Imperial Headquarters at Fengtu, and the communication is solemnly burnt, this being the convenient means of transit.]
An Italian study (Francescato et al. 1979), which compared 137 women who had had more than one abortion with others who had aborted only once, revealed that the use of contraceptives was higher among the 'chronics', and that the contraceptives they employed were generally safer.
The epidermis itself is covered with a cuticle, a layer which may be interpreted as a lipidized area of the epidermal cell wall (Guzmán et al., 2014 ).
For how long the Aepyornis survived the arrival of Europeans was, and remains, a mystery.