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I wonder how sites like this are faring under the current Uighur/Chinese political situation. As I understand it, the Chinese are bent on confirming that the Uighur province(s) have "always" been part of China, while the Uighurs themselves clearly have some non-Chinese historical background going on (which of course the Chinese then have to downplay). In particular, I'm told this is affecting the progress of access/research/publication on the mummies of Urumchi.

@135: When I was in London a couple of years ago, I took a photo of a Tube advertisement: "A boiler breakdown could leave you with a WAPPING bill and a cold home so it CHORLEYWOOD make sense to take out [name of insurance policy].... you'd get MORDEN you'd think. And all our engineers are so highly trained, you'll want to CLAPHAM. Don't take a CHANCERY LANE, take out [policy] for your boiler. At 12 pounds a month, it won't break the BANK. You'd be BARKING not to."

Apparently this sort of thing is a favorite pastime... ;)

My own favorite BARKING is the church once known as "All Hallows Barking." I get wonderful mental pictures of a vast crowd of saints, all barking.....

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