<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-475003271555948621</id><updated>2024-09-10T17:11:21.554-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Asumanai</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/475003271555948621/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Asuma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04475570831564892439</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-475003271555948621.post-2222653784011021854</id><published>2011-01-12T11:48:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-12T11:48:46.030-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Earn Money On The Internet</title><content type='html'>&lt;ul id=&quot;steps_container&quot; style=&quot;list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;steps_item&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; background-image: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: relative;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;topic_steps tp_edit_topic_step_1&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 40px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; width: 585px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;step_number&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: url(http://assets.bukisa.com/img/topics/steps_bkg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: white; float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; min-height: 30px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 40px;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;topic_steps tp_edit_topic_step_1&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 40px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; width: 585px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Georgia; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;line-height: 22px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Earn small, but real money to start with -&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOT&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;the &#39; $1000+ a day&#39; scams.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;This page is simple to load quickly. No fancy graphics, just the honest facts.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class=&quot;steps_item&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; background-image: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: relative;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;step_number&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: url(http://assets.bukisa.com/img/topics/steps_bkg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: white; float: left; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; min-height: 30px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 40px;&quot;&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;topic_steps tp_edit_topic_step_2&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 40px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; width: 585px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;First&amp;nbsp;...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;you need some &#39;tools&#39;.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;A dedicated credit card for the Internet.&lt;br /&gt;
Open FREE Internet banking accounts to receive payment.&lt;br /&gt;
Disposable email addresses.&lt;br /&gt;
An &#39;always online&#39; connection to the Internet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class=&quot;steps_item&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; background-image: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: relative;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;step_number&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: url(http://assets.bukisa.com/img/topics/steps_bkg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: white; float: left; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; min-height: 30px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 40px;&quot;&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;topic_steps tp_edit_topic_step_3&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 40px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; width: 585px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Second&amp;nbsp;...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;programs where you need to invest some money.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span&gt;The risk is greater but the rewards can be huge!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simetric.co.uk/earn_money/hyip.htm&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;High yield investment programs&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(HYIP) return high yields on your investment but are also high risk and of limited duration. Get in early with a sum you can afford to loose and earn 20% daily for a few days or 2% daily for a few weeks/months. Most use &#39;e-currency&#39; so you will need to open free accounts&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simetric.co.uk/earn_money/earning_tools.htm&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;here...&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;To help in deciding which programs to invest in and when to pull out I have kept the statistics of several&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simetric.co.uk/earn_money/hyip_stats.htm&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;sites&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that have&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simetric.co.uk/earn_money/hyip_stopped_stats.htm&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;closed&lt;/a&gt;. This is a very volatile market but can be very profitable and exciting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simetric.co.uk/earn_money/forex.htm&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Playing the Foreign Exchange markets&lt;/a&gt;. A very volatile area where returns can be huge. More details on another page&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simetric.co.uk/earn_money/forex.htm&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;here ...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li class=&quot;steps_item&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255) !important; background-image: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: relative;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;step_number&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: url(http://assets.bukisa.com/img/topics/steps_bkg.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: white; float: left; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; min-height: 30px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; width: 40px;&quot;&gt;4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;topic_steps tp_edit_topic_step_4&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 40px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 0px; width: 585px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;Third&amp;nbsp;...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;programs where you earn money but are free to join.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;Trickle income, like these sites below, build up a bank balance, give you confidence and earn you some funds to invest in HYIP or other programs that require you to deposit money first.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Pay to Click (PTC) sites pay you a cent or less to click on advertisements every 24 hours. It may not sound much but it adds up while only a little time is required each day. Remember, you can click and earn from the same ad once every day.&lt;br /&gt;
The following Bux sites are reliable and have $2 to $10 minimum payouts:-&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.onbux.com/?r=asumaagasaki&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Neobux&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;,&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buxp.info/?r=asumaagasaki&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BuxP&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simetric.co.uk/earn_money/pics/buxp2.jpg&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;proof&lt;/a&gt;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.onbux.com/?r=asumaagasaki&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;OnBux&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(new from Neobux- click on &#39;Register&#39; to join). Here is a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hillofcash.com/tutorial/neobux/index.htm&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;tutorial&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on how to use Neobux which is useful for those who wish to translate the instructions from English..&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.donkeymails.com/pages/index.php?refid=asumaagasaki&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;DonkeyMails&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;still popular after years online - the classic &#39;paid mail&#39; and PTC program. (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simetric.co.uk/earn_money/pics/paid_donkeymails.jpg&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;proof&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.clixsense.com/?3357622&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;ClixSense&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is another established program that pays 1c a click and also good for buying your own ads. It is best for Premium upgrade members (which costs from $10) as you will get many more links to click on and earn..&lt;br /&gt;
Bookmark your log-in page, remember your password and check your account several times daily for ads to click on.&lt;br /&gt;
You can upgrade your account by purchasing referrals.&lt;br /&gt;
Wait for the ad to load and then watch the 10 to 30 second timer count down. If you open two ads at the same time you will be paid for none of them. Be fair to the advertisers.&lt;br /&gt;
You can earn about 4c to 10c daily from one Bux/Mail site as a free member but a lot more if you upgrade. If you join 10 similar sites you can earn $1 a day in 30 minutes even without buying referrals!&lt;br /&gt;
Remember to bookmark this page and all the sites you join to make it easier to return daily.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mylot.com/?ref=asumaagasaki&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;MyLot&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a great program for people who like to chat and earn a few cents a day at the same time! The range of subjects is enormous and from all over the world. Upload pictures from your computer, list your passions and other features. But beware - this program can become infectious!!&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Payment is by PayPal so you will need to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.paypal.com/mrb/pal=V5D58XBQWB9LA&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;get a free PayPal account&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span&gt;. I have been paid 23 times by MyLot -&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simetric.co.uk/earn_money/pics/gpt1.jpg&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;here is June and July&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bukisa.com/r/asumaagasaki&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Bukisa&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;will pay you for submitting short articles on a wide variety of subjects. This site is aimed at the more knowledgeable surfer who has the expertise to pass on their experience in good English. Pay is based on 1000 views of your articles at a rate that varies with the site income. At the moment this is between $3 and $4 CPM. Payout minimum is $10. Here is a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bukisa.com/articles/38233_how-to-submit-content-to-bukisa&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;tutorial on how to submit content&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and here is an example of an&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bukisa.com/articles/38503_real-web-site-statistics-operating-systems&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;article on web site stats&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simetric.co.uk/earn_money/pics/paid_bukisa.jpg&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Here is proof of payment&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.getpaidto.com/?ref=4873&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;GetPaidTo&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;join programs! Sign up for any of the 1550 free cash offers available and get paid instantly through Paypal. For instance, join Ebay and get $7 (so long as you are not already a member). Low minimum payout of $0.50 which you can earn in minutes with a daily survey. Free to join. Open only to USA, Canada and UK residents, like a lot of these GPT programs. Most offers are free but some require a purchase which are clearly marked. Please be truthful when joining and giving information and best to use a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simetric.co.uk/earn_money/earning_tools.htm&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;dedicated email address&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;as you will get many replies.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simetric.co.uk/earn_money/getpaidto.htm&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Go here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to see the payment process and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simetric.co.uk/earn_money/pics/gpt1.jpg&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;proof of payment&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to my PayPal account&lt;br /&gt;
And&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simetric.co.uk/earn_money/how_to_do_offers.htm&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;here are some tips&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on how to do offers and set up your PC to earn with GPT programs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gaminglagoon.com/refsig/811979.png&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Gaming Lagoon&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;started in 2006 and from the same stable as GetPaidTo.&lt;br /&gt;
Some free offers include getting paid to download and play free games; download and install screen savers; download and install a toolbar; take part in surveys and more.&lt;br /&gt;
For offers that you purchase you will get cash back. Useful where you are buying software (like for PC Speed Optimization ) or ebooks; getting a loan; buying tickets; and more.&lt;br /&gt;
To use the site:-&lt;br /&gt;
1. Check the Complete Offers page. New offers are added each day&lt;br /&gt;
2. Read the directions for the offer and fill it out. Reading the Terms of Services and full completion will assure your offers approval. Once you&#39;re done, click the green checkmark to mark the offer completed.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Wait while the offer is sent for approval. If approved you will receive the points or cash. Get what you want with the points or convert to cash. One point is just under a dollar. This site pays OK.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;For sites where you earn by clicking on a link to make a search.&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simetric.co.uk/earn_money/search.htm&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Here is a tutorial on how to make a valid search&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;. It will take longer than the 40 seconds shown to finish loading three pages but if the advertiser doesn&#39;t get paid, you wont get the links in the future.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Surveys for payment or prizes. Get paid by manufacturers for your opinions on their products. All of these are free to join and really do pay. There are many survey scams on the Net and even some where they require payment from you. You should never have to pay to take part.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cashcrate.com/2474423&quot; style=&quot;color: #336699; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;CashCrate&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;has been paying for over 4 years with over 2 million members and pays worldwide although most surveys are for US, Canada and Europe. Sign up from the UK, for instance, and you get 52 options to complete offers, take surveys or shop online with payments ranging from 50 cents to $15. You get points for playing Flash games as well - good fun! They have a &#39;payment wall&#39; where members post photos of their payments.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;High Payouts from &#39;free to join&#39; programs.&lt;br /&gt;
Normally I avoid very high payout programs where it sometimes takes a year to reach the minimum by which time the site may have vanished!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;You WILL get paid with these programs; about $35 to $50 a month for just these programs and there are dozens more to choose from. Join up, add to your favourites or put an icon on your desktop by dragging on a links page for each program and visit the sites at intervals through the day and earn a bit each time. It soon adds up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/feeds/2222653784011021854/comments/default' title='Objavi komentare'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/2011/01/earn-money-on-internet.html#comment-form' title='0 komentara'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/475003271555948621/posts/default/2222653784011021854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/475003271555948621/posts/default/2222653784011021854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/2011/01/earn-money-on-internet.html' title='Earn Money On The Internet'/><author><name>Asuma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04475570831564892439</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-475003271555948621.post-5726795515025860709</id><published>2011-01-05T06:59:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-05T06:59:42.257-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Serial killers</title><content type='html'>&lt;ul style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David Richard Berkowitz&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;(born&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Richard David Falco&lt;/strong&gt;; June 1, 1953), also known as&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Son of Sam&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;.44 Caliber Killer&lt;/strong&gt;, is an American serial killer&amp;nbsp;and arsonist&amp;nbsp;whose crimes terrorized NYC&amp;nbsp;from July 1976 until his arrest in August 1977. Shortly after his arrest in August 1977, Berkowitz confessed to killing 6 people and wounding several others in the course of eight shootings in New York between 1976 and 1977; he has been imprisoned for these crimes since 1977. Berkowitz subsequently claimed that he was commanded to kill by a demon&amp;nbsp;who possessed&amp;nbsp;his neighbor&#39;s dog. Berkowitz later amended his confession to claim he was the shooter in only two incidents, personally killing three people and wounding a fourth. The other victims were killed, Berkowitz claimed, by members of a violent satanic cult&amp;nbsp;of which he was a member. Though he remains the only person charged with or convicted of the shootings, some law enforcement&amp;nbsp;authorities argue that Berkowitz&#39;s claims are credible: according to John Hockenberry&amp;nbsp;formerly of MSNBC&amp;nbsp;and NPR, many officials involved in the original &quot;Son of Sam&quot; case suspected that more than one person was committing the murders. Hockenberry also reported that the Son of Sam case was reopened in 1996 and, as of 2004, it was still considered open.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;(May 21, 1960&amp;nbsp;– November 28, 1994) was an American serial killer&amp;nbsp;and sex offender. Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys&amp;nbsp;– many of whom were of African&amp;nbsp;or Asian&amp;nbsp;descent&amp;nbsp;– between 1978 and 1991, with the majority of the murders occurring between 1987 and 1991. His murders were particularly gruesome, involving rape, torture, dismemberment, necrophilia&amp;nbsp;and cannibalism. On November 28, 1994, he was beaten to death by an inmate at the Columbia correctional institution, where he had been incarcerated.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gary Leon Ridgway&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;(born February 20, 1949), known as the&amp;nbsp;Green River Killer, is an&amp;nbsp;American&amp;nbsp;serial killer. Ridgway murdered numerous women in Washington&amp;nbsp;during the 1980s and 1990s, earning his nickname when the first five victims were found in the Green River.&amp;nbsp;He strangled them, mostly with his arm, but he would also use ligatures. After strangling the women, he would dump their bodies throughout forested and overgrown areas in King County&lt;span&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;On November 30, 2001, as he was leaving the Renton, Washington&amp;nbsp;Kenworth Truck factory where he worked, he was arrested for the murders&amp;nbsp;of four women whose cases were linked to him through DNA&amp;nbsp;evidence.&amp;nbsp;As part of a plea bargain&amp;nbsp;wherein he agreed to disclose the whereabouts of still &quot;missing&quot; women, he was spared the death penalty&amp;nbsp;and received a sentence of life imprisonment&amp;nbsp;without parole.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;David Parker Ray&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;(November 6, 1939 - May 28, 2002) was a suspected American serial killer&amp;nbsp;and known torturer of woman; though no bodies were found, he was accused by his accomplices of killing several people, and suspected by police to have murdered&amp;nbsp;as many as 60 people in the town of Truth or Consicuences. He is occasionally known as the &quot;Toy-Box Killer&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John Wayne Gacy, Jr.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;(March 17, 1942&amp;nbsp;– May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer&amp;nbsp;also known as the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Killer Clown&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;who committed the rape and murder of 33 teenage boys and young men between 1972 and 1978. Twenty-six of Gacy&#39;s victims were buried in the crawlspace of his home, three others elsewhere on his property and four victims were discarded in a nearby river. Gacy became known as the &quot;Killer Clown&quot; due to his charitable services at fundraising events, parades and children&#39;s parties where he would dress as &quot;Pogo the Clown,&quot; a character he devised himself.&lt;/li&gt;
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Read more:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bukisa.com/articles/424656_serial-killers#ixzz1AAneqsGL&quot; style=&quot;color: #003399; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;http://www.bukisa.com/articles/424656_serial-killers#ixzz1AAneqsGL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/feeds/5726795515025860709/comments/default' title='Objavi komentare'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/2011/01/serial-killers.html#comment-form' title='0 komentara'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/475003271555948621/posts/default/5726795515025860709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/475003271555948621/posts/default/5726795515025860709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/2011/01/serial-killers.html' title='Serial killers'/><author><name>Asuma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04475570831564892439</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-475003271555948621.post-1814044144844985830</id><published>2011-01-05T06:58:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-05T06:58:59.148-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Top 10 Games</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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style=&quot;left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px;&quot; vspace=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;300&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;The Movies&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Pretty awesome game to play. Fun for it&#39;s possibility to make your own movie. Some people made videos for their favourite music tracks and put it on the Youtube. It is pretty old game now, but still rocks, and is always fun no matter how old you actually are. Main opposition to this game would be The Sims series, but i consider this to be more fun. Home made movies are cool, and by that I don&#39;t mean on pornografic home mades.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No. 9&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Rise of Nations&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;The first RTS on this list. Rise of Nations brings epic story of social and military evolution throughout the time. Great geographic discoveries on your PC must be awesome. Also it is not very easy game to win. You have to be very careful on resources because they tend to get depleted easily just when you need them the most. Main opposition to this game in the RTS genre would definitely be Sid Meyer&#39;s Civilisation series or Age of Empires triology.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No. 8&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Pokemon Series&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Well who hasn&#39;t played good old Pokemon? I know this is a game for the Nintendo, but I just had to enlist &#39;em. Pokemon series offer great diversity and many possibilities. This is a game for generations, and I think it should be put in some Gaming Hall of Fame or something. Main Opposition would be The Final Fantasy saga, but c&#39;mon, Pokemon are way more cool.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;No. 7&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Warhammer 40k&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Warhammer... Warhammer has been a tough choice for me to be honest. It is an amazing game that combines real time strategy and turn based strategy in a best possible way. The campain is a little bit linear, but in this kind of games what can you expect then to bash and destroy everything. In the end everything ISN&#39;T only a tank rush, you have to combine units if you don&#39;t want to lose much of an army. Main opposition would be Shogun: Total War which is definitely better game ( strategy at it&#39;s peak) and LotR: Battle for the Middle-Earth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No. 6&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; The Elder Scrolls:&amp;nbsp;Oblivion&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Ah finally another RPG. Oblivion has the most amazing scenery and setting when it comes to game. Free roaming around biggest world to be presented in games is breath-taking. Also game is pretty fun if you ask me, voice syncronisation is AMAZING with Patrick Stewart and Sean Bean ( Captain JeanLuc Picard of the Star Trek and Boromir of LotR. ) Game offers many different gameplay styles and has two possible endings depending on corruption of the main character. The main opposition would be Fable which is also good but not as nearly hard and fun.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No. 5&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Prototype&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Another sandbox action RPG. Prototype is very original very addictive game. We fallow main character Alex Mercer who is an superhuman with amazing powers and abilities. Game is not that hard but the gamestyle is AMAZING. Parkour through NYC, destroy armored vehicles with your fists, fly a hellicopter and much more. Game is a must play for people who like adrenalin :) The main opposition to this game would be GTA series.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No. 4&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Game that put my orientation on RPGs. KotOR is probably the best game in Star Wars franchise and to a fan of Star Wars universe it is the best RPG. Ever. But not to me though :) KotOR is all about fun, puzzle and the Force. Many playable characters, excellent story, many weapons and powers, choice between the Dark or the other side... Simply WOW. This game had no opposition ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No. 3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Probably the newest game on this list. It is only NFS worth to play since Carbon by my oppinion. Hundreds of cars, 2 playmodes, online multiplayer. BRILLINANT one. I won&#39;t say much about this one, it is great and play it :D Only opposition would be FlatOut 2 which is not so much about racing but stunts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;No. 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; StarCraft 2 &amp;amp; Battlefield: Bad Company 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;I couldn&#39;t choose between these two. Both are great playable games. Starcraft is probably the best RTS there is, and Bad Company 2 is much better than more famous CoD series. Besides in BC 2 you can destroy everything and anything :) Main oppositions:&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;StarCraft&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;- Also Blizzard&#39;s WarCraft..&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Bad Company 2&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Since I am soft for CoD, only Modern Warfare 2 could be an alternative&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE COMES THE WINNER!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Undisputed No. 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Mass Effect series&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;The best game EVER. Every action has it&#39;s consequence and it ROCKS. Follow Captain Shepard through his space adventure, save the galaxy and be the hero. Now i am waiting for the last masterpiece of this triology. It is going to rock. But, you may wonder, why this game to be first... Well, answer is simple: this game has depth, it has story and has brilliant setting with amazing graphics and beautiful music.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Undisputed No. 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Read more:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bukisa.com/articles/430894_best-pc-games-i-ever-played#ixzz1AAnF3Ep9&quot; style=&quot;color: #003399; cursor: pointer; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;http://www.bukisa.com/articles/430894_best-pc-games-i-ever-played#ixzz1AAnF3Ep9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/feeds/1814044144844985830/comments/default' title='Objavi komentare'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/2011/01/top-10-games.html#comment-form' title='0 komentara'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/475003271555948621/posts/default/1814044144844985830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/475003271555948621/posts/default/1814044144844985830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/2011/01/top-10-games.html' title='Top 10 Games'/><author><name>Asuma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04475570831564892439</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-475003271555948621.post-495189493115483465</id><published>2011-01-05T06:57:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-05T06:57:10.828-08:00</updated><title type='text'>How to Love</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Today&#39;s pretty much hard to find true love. True values are lost in these modern times, they are sucked in by greed and pride, and when a person even does find true love, he often stays blind to it, losing every possibility of eternal happiness.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Those who do find true love, and see it in time, they are considered the happiest people on the planet. Being &amp;nbsp;able to love is something most precious that was given to a mankind. That feeling of joy when you see your loved one isn&#39;t easily comapred to any other feeling. When the face of your lover is the last thing you see before you close your eyes in the night, and the first thing you see in the morning when you open the eyes, &amp;nbsp;makes you the happiest person ever, then you know you&#39;re truly in love. That beautiful feeling is even stronger and much more intense if the love is truly returned. &amp;nbsp;A union of two bodies into one is the major act of those in love; that act of making love is something sacred to the lovers, because both their body and soul finally become as one.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;Physical touch is practically necessary in deep relationships – both sides are addicted to the other half&#39;s body and even the slightest touch relieves the sweet pain of being separated during the day. A warm hug, a tiny kiss, or even a light touch on the hand helps your lover get through the day.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/feeds/495189493115483465/comments/default' title='Objavi komentare'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-love.html#comment-form' title='0 komentara'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/475003271555948621/posts/default/495189493115483465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/475003271555948621/posts/default/495189493115483465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-love.html' title='How to Love'/><author><name>Asuma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04475570831564892439</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-475003271555948621.post-2821851310744810877</id><published>2010-12-25T11:36:00.002-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-25T11:36:37.904-08:00</updated><title type='text'>China</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;China&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;(&lt;span class=&quot;IPA&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Gentium Plus&#39;, Gentium, GentiumAlt, &#39;Charis SIL&#39;, &#39;Doulos SIL&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Sans&#39;, Code2000, &#39;TITUS Cyberbit Basic&#39;, &#39;Arial Unicode MS&#39;, &#39;Lucida Sans Unicode&#39;, &#39;Chrysanthi Unicode&#39;;&quot; title=&quot;Pronunciation in IPA&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Wikipedia:IPA for English&quot;&gt;/ˈtʃaɪnə/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;small&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;(&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;13&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Speaker_Icon.svg/13px-Speaker_Icon.svg.png&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;&quot; width=&quot;13&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;internal&quot; href=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/En-us-China.ogg&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;En-us-China.ogg&quot;&gt;listen&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;) is seen variously as an ancient&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Civilization&quot;&gt;civilization&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;extending over a large area in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asia&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;East Asia&quot;&gt;East Asia&lt;/a&gt;, a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Nation&quot;&gt;nation&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and/or a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_state&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Multinational state&quot;&gt;multinational&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;entity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;&quot;&gt;With nearly 4,000 years of continuous history, China is one of the world&#39;s oldest civilizations.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-0&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China#cite_note-0&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;1&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-1&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China#cite_note-1&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;2&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-2&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China#cite_note-2&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;3&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;Prior to the 19th century, it possessed one of the most advanced societies and economies in the world; but through successive&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasties&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Dynasties&quot;&gt;dynasties&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;it then missed the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Industrial revolution&quot;&gt;industrial revolution&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and began to decline.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-3&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China#cite_note-3&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;4&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-4&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China#cite_note-4&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;5&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;In the 19th and 20th century,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Imperialism&quot;&gt;imperialism&lt;/a&gt;, internal weakness and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_war&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Civil war&quot;&gt;civil wars&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;damaged the country and its economy, and led to the overthrow of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Imperial&quot;&gt;imperial&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;rule.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;&quot;&gt;In 1949, after major combat ended in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Chinese Civil War&quot;&gt;Chinese Civil War&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Chinas&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Two Chinas&quot;&gt;two states&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;calling themselves &quot;China&quot; emerged:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; list-style-image: url(http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/vector/images/bullet-icon.png?1); list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.3em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;flagicon&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;People&#39;s Republic of China&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;People&#39;s Republic of China&quot; class=&quot;thumbborder&quot; height=&quot;15&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; vertical-align: middle;&quot; width=&quot;22&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;People&#39;s Republic of China&quot;&gt;People&#39;s Republic of China&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;(PRC), established in 1949, commonly known as&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;China&lt;/i&gt;, has control over&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainland_China&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Mainland China&quot;&gt;mainland China&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the largely self-governing territories of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Hong Kong&quot;&gt;Hong Kong&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(since 1997) and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Macau&quot;&gt;Macau&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;(since 1999).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;margin-bottom: 0.1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;flagicon&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Republic of China&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Republic of China&quot; class=&quot;thumbborder&quot; height=&quot;15&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China.svg.png&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; vertical-align: middle;&quot; width=&quot;22&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Republic of China&quot;&gt;Republic of China&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;(ROC) established in 1912 in mainland China, now commonly known as&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;Taiwan&lt;/i&gt;, has control over the islands of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Taiwan&quot;&gt;Taiwan&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penghu&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Penghu&quot;&gt;Penghu&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinmen&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Kinmen&quot;&gt;Kinmen&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsu_Islands&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Matsu Islands&quot;&gt;Matsu&lt;/a&gt;, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratas_Islands&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Pratas Islands&quot;&gt;Pratas island group&lt;/a&gt;, and a few other&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_Republic_of_China&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;List of islands of the Republic of China&quot;&gt;outlying islands&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;&quot;&gt;In the 1950s, change to economic policies in Taiwan transformed the island into a technology-oriented industrialized developed economy after a period of high growth rates and rapid industrialization. In mainland China, in the 1970s, reforms known as the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Modernizations&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Four Modernizations&quot;&gt;Four Modernizations&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;improved agriculture, industry, technology and defense, vastly raising&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_standards&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Living standards&quot;&gt;living standards&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and making the PRC one of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_powers&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Great powers&quot;&gt;great powers&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-5&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China#cite_note-5&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;6&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-6&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China#cite_note-6&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;7&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-7&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China#cite_note-7&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;8&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;&quot;&gt;Historically, China&#39;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_China&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Culture of China&quot;&gt;cultural sphere&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;has extended across East Asia as a whole, with&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_China&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Religion in China&quot;&gt;Chinese religion&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custom_(law)&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Custom (law)&quot;&gt;customs&lt;/a&gt;, and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_systems&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Writing systems&quot;&gt;writing systems&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;being adopted to varying degrees by neighbors such as&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Japan&quot;&gt;Japan&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Korea&quot;&gt;Korea&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Vietnam&quot;&gt;Vietnam&lt;/a&gt;. Through its history, China was the source of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_inventions&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;List of Chinese inventions&quot;&gt;many major inventions&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-Hagg_8-0&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China#cite_note-Hagg-8&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;9&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;It has also one of the world&#39;s oldest&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_writing_system&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Chinese writing system&quot;&gt;written language systems&lt;/a&gt;. The first evidence of human presence in the region was found at the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhoukoudian&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Zhoukoudian&quot;&gt;Zhoukoudian&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;cave. It is one of the earliest known specimens of&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_erectus&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Homo erectus&quot;&gt;Homo erectus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, now commonly known as the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_Man&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Peking Man&quot;&gt;Peking Man&lt;/a&gt;, estimated to have lived from 300,000 to 780,000 years ago.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/feeds/2821851310744810877/comments/default' title='Objavi komentare'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/2010/12/china.html#comment-form' title='0 komentara'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/475003271555948621/posts/default/2821851310744810877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/475003271555948621/posts/default/2821851310744810877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/2010/12/china.html' title='China'/><author><name>Asuma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04475570831564892439</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-475003271555948621.post-525324542169607739</id><published>2010-12-25T11:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-25T11:36:00.084-08:00</updated><title type='text'>India</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;India&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;(&lt;span class=&quot;IPA&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &#39;Gentium Plus&#39;, Gentium, GentiumAlt, &#39;Charis SIL&#39;, &#39;Doulos SIL&#39;, &#39;DejaVu Sans&#39;, Code2000, &#39;TITUS Cyberbit Basic&#39;, &#39;Arial Unicode MS&#39;, &#39;Lucida Sans Unicode&#39;, &#39;Chrysanthi Unicode&#39;;&quot; title=&quot;Pronunciation in IPA&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Wikipedia:IPA for English&quot;&gt;/ˈɪndiə/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;small&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;(&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;13&quot; src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Speaker_Icon.svg/13px-Speaker_Icon.svg.png&quot; style=&quot;border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;&quot; width=&quot;13&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;internal&quot; href=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/En-us-India.ogg&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;En-us-India.ogg&quot;&gt;listen&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/small&gt;), officially the&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Republic of India&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;(&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi_language&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Hindi language&quot;&gt;Hindi&lt;/a&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span lang=&quot;hi&quot; xml:lang=&quot;hi&quot;&gt;भारत गणराज्य&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;inc-Latn&quot; xml:lang=&quot;inc-Latn&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Bhārat&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Gaṇarājya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;; see also&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_names_of_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Official names of India&quot;&gt;official names of India&lt;/a&gt;), is a country in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;South Asia&quot;&gt;South&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Asia&quot;&gt;Asia&lt;/a&gt;. It is the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_outlying_territories_by_total_area&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;List of countries and outlying territories by total area&quot;&gt;seventh-largest&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;country by geographical area, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;List of countries by population&quot;&gt;second-most populous&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;country with&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Demographics of India&quot;&gt;over 1.2 billion people&lt;/a&gt;, and the most populous democracy in the world.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-largestdem2_15-0&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India#cite_note-largestdem2-15&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;16&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainland_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Mainland India&quot;&gt;Mainland India&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is bounded by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Ocean&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Indian Ocean&quot;&gt;Indian Ocean&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on the south, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Sea&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Arabian Sea&quot;&gt;Arabian Sea&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on the west, and the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Bengal&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Bay of Bengal&quot;&gt;Bay of Bengal&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;on the east; and it is bordered by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Pakistan&quot;&gt;Pakistan&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to the west;&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;ref_Anone&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India#endnote_Anone&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;[note]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutan&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Bhutan&quot;&gt;Bhutan&lt;/a&gt;, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;People&#39;s Republic of China&quot;&gt;People&#39;s Republic of China&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Nepal&quot;&gt;Nepal&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to the north; and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Bangladesh&quot;&gt;Bangladesh&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Burma&quot;&gt;Burma&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshadweep&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Lakshadweep&quot;&gt;Lakshadweep Islands&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;are in the vicinity of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Sri Lanka&quot;&gt;Sri Lanka&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Maldives&quot;&gt;Maldives&lt;/a&gt;, while India&#39;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andaman_and_Nicobar_Islands&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Andaman and Nicobar Islands&quot;&gt;Andaman and Nicobar Islands&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;share maritime border with&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thailand&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Thailand&quot;&gt;Thailand&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Indonesia&quot;&gt;Indonesian&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;island of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aceh&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Aceh&quot;&gt;Sumatra&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andaman_Sea&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Andaman Sea&quot;&gt;Andaman Sea&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-16&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India#cite_note-16&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;17&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;India has a coastline of 7,517&amp;nbsp;kilometres (4,700 mi).&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-sanilkumar_17-0&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India#cite_note-sanilkumar-17&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;18&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;&quot;&gt;Home to the ancient&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Indus Valley Civilisation&quot;&gt;Indus Valley Civilisation&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_subcontinent&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Indian subcontinent&quot;&gt;Indian subcontinent&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-18&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India#cite_note-18&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;19&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;Four of the world&#39;s major religions—&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism_in_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Hinduism in India&quot;&gt;Hinduism&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_in_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Buddhism in India&quot;&gt;Buddhism&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism_in_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Jainism in India&quot;&gt;Jainism&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhism_in_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Sikhism in India&quot;&gt;Sikhism&lt;/a&gt;—originated here, while&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsi&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Parsi&quot;&gt;Zoroastrianism&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism_in_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Judaism in India&quot;&gt;Judaism&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Christianity in India&quot;&gt;Christianity&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Islam in India&quot;&gt;Islam&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;arrived in the first millennium&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Common Era&quot;&gt;CE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and shaped the region&#39;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_culture&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Indian culture&quot;&gt;diverse culture&lt;/a&gt;. Gradually&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_rule_in_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Company rule in India&quot;&gt;annexed&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;by the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;East India Company&quot;&gt;British East India Company&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;from the early 18th century and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;British Raj&quot;&gt;colonised&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;by the United Kingdom from the mid-19th century, India became an independent nation in 1947 after a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_independence_movement&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Indian independence movement&quot;&gt;struggle for independence&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;which was marked by a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-violent_resistance&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Non-violent resistance&quot;&gt;non-violent resistance&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;led by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Mahatma Gandhi&quot;&gt;Mahatma Gandhi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;&quot;&gt;India is a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Federalism&quot;&gt;federal&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_republic&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Constitutional republic&quot;&gt;constitutional republic&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;with a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_system&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Parliamentary system&quot;&gt;parliamentary democracy&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;consisting of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_territories_of_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;States and territories of India&quot;&gt;28 states and seven union territories&lt;/a&gt;. A&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_pluralism&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Religious pluralism&quot;&gt;pluralistic&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Languages of India&quot;&gt;multilingual&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and multiethnic society, India is also home to a diversity of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauna_of_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Fauna of India&quot;&gt;wildlife&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in a variety of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_areas_of_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Protected areas of India&quot;&gt;protected habitats&lt;/a&gt;. The&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Economy of India&quot;&gt;Indian economy&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is the world&#39;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;List of countries by GDP (nominal)&quot;&gt;eleventh largest economy&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;by nominal&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Gross domestic product&quot;&gt;GDP&lt;/a&gt;and the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;List of countries by GDP (PPP)&quot;&gt;fourth largest&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Purchasing power parity&quot;&gt;purchasing power parity&lt;/a&gt;. Since the introduction of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalisation_in_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Economic liberalisation in India&quot;&gt;market-based economic reforms&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in 1991, India has become one of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(real)_growth_rate&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;List of countries by GDP (real) growth rate&quot;&gt;fastest growing major economies&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in the world;&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-ERS_19-0&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India#cite_note-ERS-19&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;20&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;however, the country continues to face several&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Poverty in India&quot;&gt;poverty&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Literacy in India&quot;&gt;illiteracy&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Corruption in India&quot;&gt;corruption&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_in_India&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Health in India&quot;&gt;public health&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;related challenges. India is classified as a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newly_industrialised_country&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Newly industrialised country&quot;&gt;newly industrialised country&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and is one of the four&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRIC&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;BRIC&quot;&gt;BRIC&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;nations.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-UNIDO_Industry_20-0&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India#cite_note-UNIDO_Industry-20&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;21&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-Limits_21-0&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India#cite_note-Limits-21&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;22&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;It is the world&#39;s sixth&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;de facto&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_state&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Nuclear weapons state&quot;&gt;nuclear weapons state&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and has the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_troops&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;List of countries by number of troops&quot;&gt;third-largest standing armed force&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in the world, while its&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;List of countries by military expenditures&quot;&gt;military expenditure ranks tenth&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in the world.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-India_22-0&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India#cite_note-India-22&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;23&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;India is a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_power&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Regional power&quot;&gt;regional power&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in South Asia.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-23&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India#cite_note-23&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;24&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;&quot;&gt;It is a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Member state&quot;&gt;founding member&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;United Nations&quot;&gt;United Nations&lt;/a&gt;, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Non-Aligned Movement&quot;&gt;Non-Aligned Movement&lt;/a&gt;, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;World Trade Organization&quot;&gt;World Trade Organization&lt;/a&gt;, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_Association_for_Regional_Cooperation&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation&quot;&gt;South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation&lt;/a&gt;, the&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asia_Summit&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;East Asia Summit&quot;&gt;East Asia Summit&lt;/a&gt;, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;G20&quot;&gt;G20&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G8%2B5&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;G8+5&quot;&gt;G8+5&lt;/a&gt;; a member of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; 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&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Xi&#39;an&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;(&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Chinese language&quot;&gt;Chinese&lt;/a&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span lang=&quot;zh&quot; xml:lang=&quot;zh&quot;&gt;西安&lt;/span&gt;;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Pinyin&quot;&gt;pinyin&lt;/a&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Xī&#39;ān&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-br_0-0&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi&#39;an#cite_note-br-0&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;1&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-1&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi&#39;an#cite_note-1&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;2&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;is the capital of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaanxi&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Shaanxi&quot;&gt;Shaanxi&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;province, and a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-provincial_city_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Sub-provincial city in the People&#39;s Republic of China&quot;&gt;sub-provincial city in the People&#39;s Republic of China&lt;/a&gt;. As one of the oldest cities in China, with more than 3,100 years of history, the city was known as&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27an&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Chang&#39;an&quot;&gt;Chang&#39;an&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;before the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_Dynasty&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Ming Dynasty&quot;&gt;Ming Dynasty&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-br_0-1&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi&#39;an#cite_note-br-0&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;1&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;Xi&#39;an is one of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_capitals_of_China&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Historical capitals of China&quot;&gt;Four Great Ancient Capitals of China&lt;/a&gt;, having held that position under several of the most important&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasties_in_Chinese_history&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Dynasties in Chinese history&quot;&gt;dynasties in Chinese history&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-encarta_2-0&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi&#39;an#cite_note-encarta-2&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;3&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;including&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Dynasty&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Zhou Dynasty&quot;&gt;Zhou&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Dynasty&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Qin Dynasty&quot;&gt;Qin&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Dynasty&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Han Dynasty&quot;&gt;Han&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_Dynasty&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Sui Dynasty&quot;&gt;Sui&lt;/a&gt;, and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Dynasty&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Tang Dynasty&quot;&gt;Tang&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-encarta_2-1&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi&#39;an#cite_note-encarta-2&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;3&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;Xi&#39;an is the eastern terminus of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Silk Road&quot;&gt;Silk Road&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and home to the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Terracotta Army&quot;&gt;Terracotta Army&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-br_0-2&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi&#39;an#cite_note-br-0&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;1&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;&quot;&gt;Since the 1990s, as part of the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Western_Development&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;China Western Development&quot;&gt;economic revival of interior China&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;especially for the central and northwest regions, the city of Xi&#39;an has re-emerged as an important cultural, industrial and educational centre of the central-northwest region, with facilities for&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_and_development&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Research and development&quot;&gt;research and development&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security&quot; 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font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Tokyo is Japan&#39;s capital and the country&#39;s largest city.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Tokyo is also one of Japan&#39;s 47&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.japan-guide.com/list/e1002.html&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;prefectures&lt;/a&gt;, but is called a metropolis (to) rather than a prefecture (ken). The metropolis of Tokyo consists of 23 city wards (ku), 26 cities, 5 towns and 8 villages, including the Izu and Ogasawara Islands, several small Pacific Islands in the south of Japan&#39;s main island Honshu.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The 23 city wards (ku) are the center of Tokyo and make up about one third of the metropolis&#39; area, while housing roughly eight of Tokyo&#39;s approximately twelve million residents.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Prior to 1868, Tokyo was known as Edo. A small&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2296.html&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;castle town&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;in the 16th century, Edo became Japan&#39;s political center in 1603 when&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2128.html&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;Tokugawa Ieyasu&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;established his feudal government there. A few decades later, Edo had grown into one of the world&#39;s most populous cities.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: arial; font-size: small;&quot;&gt;With the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2130.html&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;Meiji Restoration&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;of 1868, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2135.html&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;emperor&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and capital were moved from&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2158.html&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;Kyoto&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to Edo, which was renamed Tokyo (&quot;Eastern Capital&quot;). Large parts of Tokyo were destroyed in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.japan-guide.com/a/earthquake/&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;Great Kanto Earthquake&lt;/a&gt;of 1923 and in the air raids of 1945.&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/feeds/70132376521847469/comments/default' title='Objavi komentare'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/2010/12/tokyo-pearl-of-asia.html#comment-form' title='0 komentara'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/475003271555948621/posts/default/70132376521847469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/475003271555948621/posts/default/70132376521847469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeandtravel4you.blogspot.com/2010/12/tokyo-pearl-of-asia.html' title='Tokyo, the pearl of Asia'/><author><name>Asuma</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04475570831564892439</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-475003271555948621.post-3455208405959377817</id><published>2010-12-24T06:25:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-24T06:25:21.555-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Trip to Paris</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Paris&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;, the cosmopolitan capital of&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wikitravel.org/en/France&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;France&quot;&gt;France&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;, is - with 2.2 million people living in the dense (105 km²) central city and almost 12 million people living in the whole metropolitan area - one of the largest agglomerations in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wikitravel.org/en/Europe&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Europe&quot;&gt;Europe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;. Located in the north of the country on the river Seine, Paris has the reputation of being the most beautiful and romantic of all cities, brimming with historic associations and remaining vastly influential in the realms of culture, art, fashion, food and design. Dubbed the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;City of Light&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;la Ville Lumière&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;) and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Capital of Fashion&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;, it is home to the world&#39;s finest and most luxorious fashion designers and cosmetics, such as&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Chanel&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Christian Dior&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Yves Saint-Laurent&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Guerlain&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lancôme&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;L&#39;Oréal&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Clarins&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;, etc. A large part of the city, including the River Seine, is a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wikitravel.org/en/UNESCO_World_Heritage_List&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;UNESCO World Heritage List&quot;&gt;UNESCO World Heritage Site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;. The city has the second highest number of Michelin-restaurants in the world (after&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wikitravel.org/en/Tokyo&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Tokyo&quot;&gt;Tokyo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;) and contain numerous iconic landmarks, such as the world&#39;s most visited tourist sight&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;the Eiffel Tower&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;the Arc de Triomphe&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;the Notre-Dame Cathedral&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;the Louvre Museum&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Moulin Rouge&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lido&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; 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&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Football hooliganism&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;is unruly and destructive behaviour—such as brawls, vandalism and intimidation—by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Association football&quot;&gt;association football&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;club fans.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-independent38673_0-0&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_hooliganism#cite_note-independent38673-0&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;1&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;Fights between supporters of rival teams may take place before or after football matches at pre-arranged locations away from stadiums, in order to avoid arrests by the police, or they can erupt spontaneously at the stadium or in the surrounding streets. Football&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooliganism&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Hooliganism&quot;&gt;hooliganism&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;can range from shouts and small-scale fistfights and disturbances to huge riots where firms attack each other with&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_weapon&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Deadly weapon&quot;&gt;deadly weapons&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;such as sports bats, bottles, rocks, and knives.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-1&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_hooliganism#cite_note-1&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;2&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;In some cases, stadium brawls have caused fans to flee in panic; some being injured when fences or walls collapsed.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-2&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_hooliganism#cite_note-2&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;3&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&amp;nbsp;In the most extreme cases, hooligans, police, and bystanders have been killed, and riot police have intervened with&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_gas&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Tear gas&quot;&gt;tear gas&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_fighting_vehicle&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Armoured fighting vehicle&quot;&gt;armoured vehicles&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cannon&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Water cannon&quot;&gt;water cannon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class=&quot;reference&quot; id=&quot;cite_ref-soccerphile001_3-0&quot; style=&quot;font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_hooliganism#cite_note-soccerphile001-3&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;4&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;&quot;&gt;A football firm (also known as a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hooligan_firms&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;List of hooligan firms&quot;&gt;hooligan firm&lt;/a&gt;) is a&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Gang&quot;&gt;gang&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;formed solely to oppose and physically attack supporters of other clubs. Some firms exist to promote fringe&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Dogma&quot;&gt;political causes&lt;/a&gt;, both on the far Left and Right, with the football aspect of the club of minimal importance behind the promotion of their political ideals through violence. The firms&#39; political views are not representative of all supporters of the teams. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casual_(subculture)&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Casual (subculture)&quot;&gt;casual&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;subculture transformed the British football hooliganism scene. Instead of wearing&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_class&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Working class&quot;&gt;working class&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinhead&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Skinhead&quot;&gt;skinhead&lt;/a&gt;-style clothes, which readily identified hooligans to the police, firm members began wearing designer clothes and expensive offhand sportswear.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.4em;&quot;&gt;Football hooliganism has been depicted in films such as:&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID_(film)&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;ID (film)&quot;&gt;I.D.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;mw-redirect&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firm_(1988_film)&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;The Firm (1988 film)&quot;&gt;The Firm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_(film)&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Cass (film)&quot;&gt;Cass&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Football_Factory_(film)&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;The Football Factory (film)&quot;&gt;The Football Factory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Street&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Green Street&quot;&gt;Green Street&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;,&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_the_Footsoldier&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Rise of the Footsoldier&quot;&gt;Rise of the Footsoldier&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awaydays&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Awaydays&quot;&gt;Awaydays&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. There are also many books about hooliganism, such as&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Football_Factory_(novel)&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;The Football Factory (novel)&quot;&gt;The Football Factory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Among_the_Thugs&quot; style=&quot;background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;&quot; title=&quot;Among the Thugs&quot;&gt;Among the Thugs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. 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