The presence of a translocation between two chromosomes in the I3-I5 (D) group does not usually give rise to any phenotypical abnormality and may be relatively common in the population (Hamerton, Giannelli, and Carter, I963). Such translocations have, however, been reported in a patient with XXY Klinefelter's syndrome (Lejeune, Turpin, and DeCourt, i960), and Hamerton et al. (I963) describe a f...

Since the Song dynasty, China had sometimes supported a massive navy, which the Mongols expanded to invade Japan in 1274 and again in 1281 and to attack Java. Subsequently, the early Ming navy carried out enormous excursions into Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean from 1403 to 1434. Ming rulers also declined any political accommodation with the Mongols and their nomadic neighbours, a policy th...

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