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City carved out of ice in China
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Posted on 01/03/2012 7:35:02 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
The city in the Heilongjiang province in China first held its Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in 1963, although it was interrupted for a number of years during the Cultural Revolution and only resumed in 1985.
The festival, which starts on January 5 and lasts for one month, is one of the largest of its kind in the world attracting thousands of tourists from across China.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: china; city; ice
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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posted on
01/03/2012 7:43:21 AM PST
by
A_perfect_lady
(Anyone opposed to Newt should remember: we're not electing a messiah, we're electing a politician.)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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posted on
01/03/2012 7:45:13 AM PST
by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: A_perfect_lady
Amazing what you can accomplish when money is no object and you have a near-infinite supply of cheap labor.
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posted on
01/03/2012 7:56:23 AM PST
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wbill
To: A_perfect_lady
Amazing what you can accomplish when money is no object and you have a near-infinite supply of cheap labor.
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01/03/2012 7:56:37 AM PST
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wbill
To: Bigh4u2
If anyone ever has the opportunity to visit this incredible work of art, you will come away with a major question. That question is why a country with such creativity and love for beauty, want to rule the world. Other areas of the world want to take over and just destroy beauty and creativity of the human mind with violence. I know the history of China and how it keeps its thumb on its’ people, but I'm referring to the beauty of creativity.
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posted on
01/03/2012 7:56:37 AM PST
by
shadeaud
( “Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8”. Just doing my duty a Christian)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
IIRC, there is a resort that is all ice...or something like that.
To: wbill
Those guys were using electric ice shavers, front end loaders and snow making machines that are familiar to millions of Americans.
It takes skilled labor ~ not unlimited labor.
BTW, it's much less expensive to do "construction" using ice than just about anything else.
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posted on
01/03/2012 8:12:28 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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posted on
01/03/2012 9:35:32 AM PST
by
bgill
(The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Well no need to worry about this becomming a ghost city, just wait till spring.
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posted on
01/03/2012 10:13:15 AM PST
by
GraceG
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