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A Hong Kong Vacation Offers You a Lot More Than Shopping

A Hong Kong vacation offers you more than great shopping and marvelous restaurants, and it is certainly far divorced from the traditional China that you would find on the mainland.  Hong Kong comprises Hong Kong Island, the part that everyone associates as being Hong Kong, Kowloon, the most densely populated part of the territory, and over 200 islands, some large and some small, that combine to form what is one of the most popular holiday destinations in Asia.  A major reason read

Today is Swaziland's King Sobhuza II's Birthday

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Bhuza.jpg At the time of his death in 1982, King Sobhuza II was the longest-reigning monarch in the world. His death established him as the most recently-deceased monarch in the world. Today he is simply dead. Sobhuza began his career as Paramount Chief of the Swazi in 1921, but was not recognized as king by Great Britain, which ran the nation as a protectorate, until 1967. (The forgetful Brits have a long history of failing to recognize kings, pe read

VICKY'S BLOOMERS A pair of Queen Victoria's bloomers have been discovered which show that Britain's longest-reigning monarch had a 50-inch (127 cm) waist. The size of the underwear gives weight to the theory that the Queen had become morbidly obese towards the end of her life. The drawers - which dwarf the average British woman's 33 inch (84 cm) waist today - will be auctioned along with a selection of other Royal undergarments. These include a nightdress and a chemise with an impressive 66 read

Great Facts - 1

In 2002, the most popular boat name in the U.S. was Liberty One out of 20 people have an extra rib 44% of kids watch television before they go to sleep In 1865, the U.S. Secret Service was first established for the specific purpose to combat the counterfeiting of money Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents In 1967, the IMAX film system was invented by Canadian Ivan Grame Ferguson to premier at Expo 67. Approximately 40% of the U.S. paper currency read

Working Towards Democracy

Political Systems and Governments in South East Asia    DEmocracy can be defined as government by and for the people. Power rests in the people, who have the ability to exercise this power either directly or through freely elected agents whom they have chosen. Key aspects of democracy include: competitive multi-party elections, freedom of speech, freedom of press, and majority rule with protection of minority rights. Civilian control of the military is an important aspect of democracy, preve read