As free use is made in the following story of the names of personages who played important parts in and during the last Tartar Conquest of China, the Author believes that a slight sketch of that turbulent epoch may not be uninteresting to his readers. Twenty-two dynasties have given some two hundred and forty Emperors to the Celestial Kingdom; of these, two were Tartars, who obtained the thr…
A Princess of Thule is a novel written by William Black and published in 1892. The story is set in the remote and rugged landscape of the Scottish Hebrides, where a young and beautiful woman named Sheila Mackenzie lives with her father, a wealthy and powerful landowner. Sheila is known for her wild and independent spirit, and she has captured the hearts of many of the local men, including the h…
"The task of archiving was once entrusted only to museums, libraries, and other institutions that acted as repositories of culture in material form. But with the rise of digital networked media, a multitude of self-designated archivists -- fans, pirates, hackers -- have become practitioners of cultural preservation on the Internet. These nonprofessional archivists have democratized cultural mem…