I attended a one-room school next door to the palace and studied English, Xhosa, history and geography.

He really took a gamble when he left his job to become a writer. But it paid off in the end.

Sludge spewed into the Shuanghe River and Donghe River in Shaanxi province’s Shanyang county when the spillway collapsed early on Tuesday, Xinhua said.[…] In April, ore tailings from another vanadium mine in Shanyang county polluted and literally blackened three rivers, state media reported at the time.

We had this cake made specially for your birthday.