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Historical records indicate that by 1234, the population of northern China had dropped by two-thirds due to war, Jinping Wang, an associate professor of history at the National University of Singapore, wrote in her book "In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in ...
Eventually, the Mamluks forced the Mongols to change their tactics and even their life style. The name Taybugha is of Turkic origin, which suggests that the author might have come from what is now central Turkey. However his name, Al-Yunani, “The Greek”, also suggests that he might ...
Then at Christmastime in 1874 Charles Dickens wrote a story called “The Opal Ring” in his weekly periodical “All Year Round.” The story was built on superstitions and involves an opal with a history of bringing misfortune to its owners. Bad luck followed the opal, and once again a wor...