Everyone knows Joyce Kilmer's love song to trees - "I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree." That's the way I feel about tomatoes. Accordingly, Chilled BLT Soup puts the "T" in BLT. Yes, there's bacon and lettuce, and some toast, too, in the form of croutons. But the star of this show is the tomato in its season.
Yang Zhenning (Chen-Ning Franklin Yang), 94, and Xiong Bingming (Ping-Ming Hsiung, 1922-2002) knew each other since they were 7 years old.
The China Cultural Center in the Belgian capital is showcasing until Sept 10 some of China's finest contemporary photography. The exhibition, titled China: Grain to Pixel, 1980 to Today, displays 40 works from 25 photographers and marks China's radical social and cultural changes over the last 35 years.
Alaska's largest city is home to more than 300 grizzly and black bears and now more than a dozen multicolored ones.
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art said on Thursday that it is extending the hours of the Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology exhibition that has drawn near-record visits.
With her exceptional voice, well-known for spanning seven octaves and her performance of khoomei (throat-singing), Sainkho Namtchylak, the singer from Tuva, has performed around the world.
Paisley Park, the private estate and studio complex of the late rock superstar Prince, will open for daily public tours starting Oct 6, the trust company overseeing his estate announced Wednesday, and the company that runs Elvis Presley's Graceland will manage it.
North China's Shanxi province has plenty of wonderful sites and sights, but three particularly unusual ancient relics and strange bits of architecture that have been around for hundreds of years are a cliff temple, hanging coffins, and a village built on the face of a cliff in the Luya Mountain Scenic Area of Ningwu county, that can all be visited within a day.
Shanxi was fairly well known for its cave dwellers in the northern part of the province. No, no, these were not Ice Age Neanderthals or cave men, they were local farmers who made their homes by digging into the hard-packed loess soil for a place that is cool in the blazing summer and not so cold in the winter.
There's an old saying in China to describe the Yellow River, its mother river by calling it - jiu qu, shiba wan, or 'nine twists, 18 turns' - because it meanders all over northern China on its lazy 5,464 kilometer run to the East Sea
Once upon a time the maiden looked at her reflection and said: "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"
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