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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and development. (Aristotle)

A spoonful of sugar…

It’s an unexpected shock when a web surfer encounters “Page not Found”…  but as Hongkiat demonstrates, 404s can be fun:

NewYorker.com

HomeStarRunner.com

There are 47 others here, and another 60 here

As we control our frustration, we might recall that it was on this date in 1271 that Kublai Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan and ruler of the Eastern-most part of the Mongol Empire at the point that it fragmented into four separate Khanates, established the Yuan Dynasty… which, after Kublai defeated the Song in southern China several years later, became the first dynasty to rule a united China since the Tang, hundreds of years earlier.

Yuan Dynasty, circa 1294

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Written by LW

December 18, 2008 at 1:01 am

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