Monthly Archives: November 2008

Pointing to a Deer and calling it a Horse

zhi lu wei ma   One of the most successful dynasties of China was the Han dynasty which lasted for four hundred years beginning about 201 B.C.E.. Just before this, however, there was a short lived Qin dynasty. This is … Continue reading

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Beauty and the Golden Empress

Beauty and the Golden Empress by Bambootiger Beauty In nature "Nature is the art of God."—so said Sir Thomas Browne , a 17th-century physician. To illustrate this a woman who lives in Spain, vividly recalls one November evening several years … Continue reading

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