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THE METRO COPES WELL WITH THE MASSES OF OLYMPIANS
The Silk road- hmmmm maybe
August 8th 2008 Captain Riyadh put us firmly down onto China. Once he had made contact with the runway at Peking, we began what I call "the qatar airways roll out". Always long, always quiet, and nearly always with no reverse thrust. We had been on the A330 for over 9 hours. I had slept for five and watched master and commander for the last two. The whole experience had, as usual for Qatar Airways, been utterly p
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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more 
