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Pictures of the Great Wall and Lantern Festival

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March 24th 2010
I just posted a blog but I forgot to add a few pictures, so I don't have much to say in this one. The pictures are from the Great Wall and the Lantern Festival. The Great Wall everyone knows about, my program brought us there a few weeks ago, it was a lot of fun. It actually ended up snowing a little bit to it was very pretty. The Lantern Festival marks the end of the 2 week new years celebration. ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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