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Happy Chinese New Year & National Palace Museum

Posted on January 26, 2009 | No Comments
Happy Chinese Lunar New Year, everyone. As the year of the Ox, this should be a good year for all oxen out there, including me. I’m a huge history buff. Huge. While I struggled through many subjects in school, I never had a problem...
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The Pandas Arrive in Taiwan

Posted on December 24, 2008 | 3 Comments
They’re here… Embedded video from CNN Video For those who think that they’re “just animals” and that it’s a completely apolitical gift on the part of the People’s Republic of China…well, just look at their names: “Tuan Tuan” and “Yuan Yuan”. In Chinese “Tuan...
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