My contribution to the apple pie

November

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November 30th 2009
November So, we’re just at the end of November now and the temperature has dropped! Around -2 to -5 during the day usually (I have bought a very warm down jacket) and we’ve even had a fair amount of snow, which was very pretty, though not enough to make snowmen or sledge (we could try the mountains behind us if it does snow a lot some time, though we’ll probably end up killing ourselve ... read more

Asia » China » Gansu » Lanzhou

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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