Beijing Aquarium

Saturday at the zoo

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June 24th 2006
It's the weekend! In our program, we get the weekends pretty much to ourselves. So today several of us decided to go to the Beijing aquarium, supposedly the largest aquarium in the world. The catch was that in order to get into the aquarium, you had to go through the Beijing Zoo. No big deal, right? Well, the reputation of the zoo is that you can hear the animals cry as you walk through it. ... read more

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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