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China's traditional Qingming Festival, also called Tomb Sweeping Day, usually falls on the first day of the fifth solar term on the lunisolar calendar, and this year, it's the 4th of April. Tomb Sweeping is the most important custom of the festival.

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Scientists Open Tomb, Hoping to Identify Mona Lisa

Researchers in Italy have excavated bones in a tomb in Florence in a bid to identify the Renaissance model for Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The research team says that the remains in the crypt have an inscribed stone indicating that they belonged t

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Pedalo The Heart Strings It seems as good a day as any To start my trek across the ocean With no funds for ship or sail I'll use my legs and my devotion. An aqua bike will be my vessel And high adventure the land I seek So farewell friends who've com

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By Michael Bowman Washington 30 October 2006 The Bush administration says efforts to secure the U.S. border with Mexico are reducing the flow of illegal aliens into the country. The announcement follows President Bush's signing of a bill authorizing

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According to the excavation experts, a jade seal found in the interior coffin of the tomb has helped identify its master as the Marquis of Haihun. The printing base of the seal is inscribed with the characters of Liu He, the name of the Marquis, who