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Off of Wikipedia:

Ian Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was an English author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer. Fleming is best known for creating the fictional spy…

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We are happy with everything. Selina can safely tell her friends. We'll be announcing the results at the end of next week (13th) on our website.

I am delighted to tell you that Selina has in fact won the first prize in the 8 -11 category of the Languages for the Games…

The Harbin-Dalian high-speed rail will officially open on July 1st. Once open, the trip from Changchun to Dalian will only take two hours, and the trip from Changchun to Harbin or Shenyang will only take about an hour.

http://www.echinacities.com/changchun/city-in-pulse/changchun-dalian-high-speed-rail-opens-on-july-1st.html

una citta

un viaggio

un ristorante

un paese

1. visualize

2. make it interactive

3. Context Matters

4. watch videos

5. listen to audio books

This is a message to the foreigner who throw there garbage out the WINDOW. Please stop. I have seen bottles of sprite,orange and green tea being thrown out to window . If you know who these people are, please tell them to stop. I think they might be on this site and maybe you know who they are. Pass the message on. THANK YOU

Hello one and all,

Here is my contribution to the great stock of literature and verse that has come to pass giving the English language it's gravity, it's genius, it's staying power.

Although the darling of world languages has its place firmly set in all far and distant corners of the world, and maintains its place at the highest levels of human existence, in government, in business and indeed in the farest of reaches of space unto which man hath dared to travel, its…

I have created a new box on the front page to link to useful websites which are relevant for living in Changchun

I have started off with two:

ChangchunLive

and

an online site for learning Chinese

The box can be found under the Videos.

If you know of other useful sites, please let us know and we will put them in

Changchun has so many beautiful parks and I get to see a fair amount of them with my son Thomas.

So I thought we should make a list of parks that we enjoy.

I'll kick it off with South Lake Hotel park which is like a hidden gem for foreigners. It has secret pagodas, and a network of very secluded paths. You don't see many people and it's a great place to find peace and tranquility. I once met a big stag there - just came out from some trees and stared at me before disappearing…

Chinese Robocop in Kunming!

Its basically a CCTV camera with a panic button to call the police, who are watching through the cameras....…

I just heard this sad news, Donna Summer, forever the queen of disco, dies of cancer at the age of 63. Summer has end :-(

While former U.S. president Richard Nixon was advised to avoid drinking "baijiu," or Chinese liquor, during his visit in 1972, the emperors of a 1,000-year-old dynasty craved the drink, according to researchers in northeast China's Jilin province who are working to analyze the oldest alcohol-distilling devices ever found in the country.

Feng Enxue, an archaeologist from Jilin University, said Monday that researchers have been brought in to study two large iron boilers, as well as…

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The Chun. It's a spiritual place you know.…

All hail the firgotten fountain pen - from the letters page of the daily Telegraph

http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/09/11627033-lichtensteins-sleeping-girl-sells-at-auction-for-nearly-45-million?lite

http://crackberry.com/rim-announces-approval-blackberry-7-smartphones-us-department-defense-networks

Though I started with the idea of writing a recommendation on the 20 best Chinese movies in my own eyes, the article  turns out to become an introduction to hundreds of thousands of Chinese people’s preference on a website named douban.com, the most popular IMDb-like website in simplified Chinese. With over half of my choices differing from the ones voted by populous douban.com users, I realized that personal choices vary, but mass appeal tells us some cultural, socialogic, aesthetic……

http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6766403/playboy-playmate-participates-in-mexican-presidential-debate-for-some-reason

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