The Middle Land - A Window to the World

He Falls into the Tiger’s Den and Is Saved by the Planet Venus,
On Double-Forked Peak Boqin Entertains the Priest
Sanzang starts the journey in the company of two attendants. While they travel in the early morning when it is still dark, his horse stumbles and all of them fall into a pit and are captured by a thoroughly evil demon king. The demon king eats his two...

The Tang Emperor Keeps Faith and Holds a Great Mass,
Guanyin Appears to the Reincarnated Golden Cicada
Emperor Taizong decides to hold a mass for the rebirth of lonely souls in the underworld. He issues a notice summoning monks to come and hold a mass in Chang`an. The notice travels throughout the empire and local officials everywhere recommend that holy...

Before Italian explorer Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492, the very first Americans had already arrived on the continent thousands of years earlier.
Around 10,000 years ago after the Ice Age ended, American Indians migrated across the two Americas, and developed languages, customs, and civilizations. The warming climate inspired some Native American tribes to grow a wide variety of crops, and become...

By Richard Szabo
The United States mid-term general election has set many new records. The election is estimated to have attracted 47 percent of registered voters or 114 million, representing the highest turnout since 1970.
It is also the first time in eight years the Democrats gained control of the lower house of Congress with 219 seats. The ruling Republicans retained their control of the Senate with at least 51 seats....