July 16, 2025
Tag: Peking
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Qianlong’s Marble Boat That Doesn’t Float
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Remembered by those who have visited as the Marble Boat and known by the Chinese as the Boat of Purity and Ease, is not marble and it is not a boat. This remarkable structure is a two-story pavilion made of wood that stands at the edge of Lake Kunming – part of the area known…
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September 5, 2022 9 Comments
Few people today remember when someone who wanted to take photographs had to buy a camera. That’s right, telephones with cameras are a fairly new combination. A telephone was a telephone; a camera was a camera! Kodak’s Model No. 3A camera is how all those real photo postcards came to be.