Xi'an Terra Cotta Warrior Day. And Awwwww The lights in the room came on at 5AM!
October 30th 2010 We are still on Montreal time and waking up in the middle of the night. The wife fell asleep finally at 4:30AM with a sigh of relief. BUT THEN: All the lights came on at the same time. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! We both woke up and were awake for good. Same thing happened in all the rooms. needless to say we all complained, and we each found a bottle of Cabernet Merlot Wolf Bass Australian Wine 2006 when
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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 
