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Jan. 29th, 2006 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockRight now I'm watching The First Emperor: The Man Who Made China on the Discovery Channel.
It's pretty cool, though the main reinactor isn't that great. Cool costumes. It's about the first emperor to unite China, who happens to also (I didn't know this) be the guy responsible for the army of terra cotta stone soldiers discovered a few years ago and still being excavated. I saw some of the pieces in a huge Ancient China exhibit in the San Francisco art museum about 4 years ago; it was extraordinary.
EDIT: This guy also began the Great Wall? Holy moly. He was a busy tyrant, wasn't he?
EDIT: Died of mercury poisoning. Rather embarrassing way to go, in the end.
It's pretty cool, though the main reinactor isn't that great. Cool costumes. It's about the first emperor to unite China, who happens to also (I didn't know this) be the guy responsible for the army of terra cotta stone soldiers discovered a few years ago and still being excavated. I saw some of the pieces in a huge Ancient China exhibit in the San Francisco art museum about 4 years ago; it was extraordinary.
EDIT: This guy also began the Great Wall? Holy moly. He was a busy tyrant, wasn't he?
EDIT: Died of mercury poisoning. Rather embarrassing way to go, in the end.
