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Jamestown, first Virginia settlement, was like a mosquito bite that is scratched and scratched until it becomes a permanent feature. First & foremost a gambling venture, it naturally attracted gamblers rather than serious colonists. In the medley of ex-pirates, Spanish spies, gold-seekers and riff-raff that came to Virginia...
The penalty for removal of a Lion Dog from within the walls of the Forbidden City, was the "Death by 10,000 Slices" or some other ingenious execution. The dog, regarded with religious awe by Chinese masses, was as much a mystery to them as to foreigners. The Emperor'...
These innovations, then, are in line with the modern demand for the broad view; they aim away in theory, from the mere accumulation of isolated facts. In short, they are made in the same spirit as was the introduction of divisionals at Harvard. The study of Law, however, is a...
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (Columbia). A sweet and intelligent young woman whose forbears are New England puritans arrives in Shanghai from the U. S. to marry a handsome and fiery missionary. Two accidents occur. The young lady sees her rickshaw boy brutally run down by a Chinese brigand...
In 1696 Captain William Kidd sailed from New York to fight pirates off Madagascar, became one himself. Sentenced to death in London, he exclaimed: "My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part I am the innocentest person of them all. . . ." First the rope, then the gallows broke...