Surviving the Winter freeze 007

Surviving the Winter freeze

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January 5th 2011
Greetings once again, It's getting mightily cold here...and by cold I don't mean chilly. If you take chilly and go two steps below to cold, then go three rungs below that to really pigging cold, two more down to bloody freezing then go another three steps below that you'd be somewhere in the right vicinity. I'm walking around my my lips smeared in vaseline all day and we live in thermal vests ... 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