Day 1,806: far-flung, blast furnace

Europeans struggled to accept that such a far-flung place could possibly have invented the compass, the crossbow and the blast furnace.

How worrying is the rapid rise of Chinese science?

Artwork of the day 
Island Enoshima. The Fuji can be seen far away
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Style: Ukiyo-e
Genre: landscape

Word of the day 
far-flung: used to refer to places that are a great distanceaway, or something that is spread over a very large area:
blast furnace: a container in which iron is produced by blowing extremely hot air through a mixture of iron ore, coke, and limestone

Quote of the day
“I am, and always will be, the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams.”

― Eleventh Doctor