Henry Morgan, a 17th-century Welsh pirate who along the Spanish Main became a multimillionaire in today's dollars, said, "A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself."
Wall Street bankers do it before work; laborers do it after work. Bartenders are among a rare bunch who need to do it both before and after work.
How does the Beijing cocktail scene and culture compare with that of New York?
Aitor Olabegoya, his "chef's whites" still crisp after an hour in the kitchen, is poised like an eagle over a steaming pan of soup.
If you have only one day to tour in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, most locals will recommend that you visit Jinci, a temple with 3,000 years' history.
Qinglong town, or "azure dragon town", 10 kilometers north of Taiyuan in Shanxi, used to be a village surrounded by sweet wormwoods sitting at the main road connecting Shanxi province, a historical economic powerhouse, with Inner Mongolia, since early Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) .
Dongshan in Fujian province offers rich coastal cultural heritage
Although Dongshan is now famous for its leafy environment, back in the 1950s, most of the island was covered by desert.
Born in Dongshan, Huang Dao-zhou was a calligrapher, scholar and official of the Ming Dynasty.
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