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How Much Is the Monthly Salary of Reform Through Labour in Prison?
Laogai, which means reform through labor, is a criminal justice system involving the use of penal labor and prison farms in the China and North Korea, this is story told by former inmate, about how much a prisoner would get for a month labour.
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Mao Sui recommended Himself
Mao Sui recommends himself, the idiom serves as a metaphor for someone that must be brave enough and responsible enough to deal with thing.
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A Random Note
Hear my words, hear my cry. When I tell thee to leave my cursed home, or feel the wrath from beyond! A typical Castle-and-Cursed-Prince Story, but very interesting.
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The Wishing Cheese
the battle of Golden Cheese and Red Cheese
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Frost on Freenet: True Anonymous File Sharing System
Frost is a p2p app that works on top of Freenet. You need to have Freenet working to use Frost. Freenet is an Network over the Internet which provides true anonymity. With starting Freenet on your machine you are running a local Datastore on...
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How to Fix a Gas Fire That Keeps Going Out
Learn why your gas fire keeps going out—even when it still seems on—and how you can fix this.
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History of Chinese Shoes
The earliest shoes in China were made by tanned animal hide. They are ancester of leather boots. In the ancient script engraved on bone and tortoise shell it depicts a whole animal hide was trimmed and stretched out. This would indicate that, at the...
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Weird Slimy Vegetables and Recipes
Mucilaginous foods, such as okra, Chinese yams, lotus root, and natto, are widely promoted as being very healthy. The large ratio of mucin contained in such foods helps safeguard and repair the mucous membranes of the body. Eating these foods...
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UK Shoe Sizes and Conversion Charts to EU and US Sizes
China uses European standard for clothes and shoe sizes. EU standard recommends that shoes should be labelled with the foot lengths for which they are suitable, measured in centimetres. I haven’t bought any shoes for a couple of years since I...
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Beds through the ages
Roman bed frames were quite simple, and were made from wood or iron. Rich Romans liked to cover them with exotic fabrics. The Roman poet Martial tells of one man who pretended to be ill so that people would visit him in bed and admire his covers....