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View of the train

On to Mongolia

June 12th 2002
Notes from the Trans-Siberian ...farm, straw hats, gravestones in copses, shrub and brush, glass-fragment guarded prisons, rows of brick houses, hidden courtyards, putrid rubbish pits, lambent peaks, trees sprout from stonewall, moss melts down the craggy crest, little Russian lad with a toy motorcycle, sandals and a chocolate mustache, lone sunflower on a dirt pile, rows of rice pass, conical s ... read more
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Chinese Flag 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
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