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A High Cover

A High Cover

In the northeastern Shandong province of the People’s Republic of China there is a coastal city called Yantai, which during the Qing dynasty (1644 to 1912) was known as Chefoo. What’s really fascinating about this fishing seaport is that back in the 1870s, when...
The Mighty Maltese Cross

The Mighty Maltese Cross

To many people, a tree is a tree. However, if you’re a botanist then there is a bit more to it than that. For starters, trees are perennial plants with a trunk, branches and leaves and there are around 100,000 different species, and even if you select just one of...

The Sound of Olympic Music

Right, if we are going to do justice to our Olympic auction, let’s start at the very beginning, which is not to be confused with the lyrics from ‘The Sound of Music’, ‘Do-re-mi’, although there’s a ‘long way to run’ given the Olympics are synonymous with the Marathon...