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  • We just scheduled a tour of the "Portland Underground," aka "Shanhai Tunnels," for tomorrow night.

    In Portland drewan 2007

  • However since then it has expanded and now offers not just a Tokyo map but maps of New York, London, Paris, Shanhai and Sofia.

    Japanese Google Maps Round-Up 2009

  • Oh, the day that Shanhai would be flooded in a very possible future, New Orleans, New York, and many other cities in the USA would be under waterm, too.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast PM: June 15, 2006 2006

  • The earliest reference to it, then known as San-tianzi Du, is ascribed to "Shanhai jin" (Book of Mountains and Seas).

    Mount Huangshan Scenic Beauty and Historic Interest Site, China 2008

  • I almost missed the final leg of my flight home from Shanhai because of being spirited into some side room and grilled as to WHY I was there, WHAT I brought back, taking my shoes off etc.

    scaryhat 2007

  • Shanghai Electric is the largest power generation company in the city of Shanhai, with 11 operating power plants and an aggregate production capacity of more than 4,300 megawatts.

    China Asset Shuffle 2006

  • Shanhai-kwan to Sinmint'un and Mukden, and has a branch line which diverges to New-chwang.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • At Lanchow in Chihli on the Imperial Chinese Railway near Shanhai-kwan, 16 old cash count as 100 cash, yet 33 are required to make up 200; in Tientsin from which point the railway starts, 1000 cash are really 500 cash and 98 count there as 100.

    AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

  • Shanhai-kwan, 16 old cash count as 100 cash, yet 33 are required to make up 200; in Tientsin from which point the railway starts, 1000 cash are really 500 cash and 98 count there as 100.

    An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma George Ernest Morrison 1891

  • Made of marble from italy, grnaite from Shanhai, carpets from Saudi arabia and chandeliers from England.

    TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

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