"All legend was history as history became legend about her. Along her rivers and about her plains -- and far beyond, her fortresses and tumuli, temples and shrines, her trees over a thousand years old -- were witnesses to battles faught, phrases said, stratagems of war and politics. All was in place, known, written, and recorded." -- 13 year old Chinese boy in Sichuan 1898 (quoted in Suyin Han, The Crippled Tree, 1965 and also here and here)
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/04/dark-matter-no-show-at-sensiti.html
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