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Around 1500 B.C, Mongolia's climate became colder and drier, prompting a shift from a crop-based to a livestock-centered society. And by about 200 B.C., a warlike people called the Xiongnu had overrun a large part of the region. As part of a peace agreement with China's Han dynasty, the Xiongnu demanded annual tributes of silk, wine, rice, concubines and other luxuries. According to Kessler, the transport of these goods to central Asia marked the earliest full-scale use of the Silk Road, the fabled network of trade routes that ultimately stretched to the Mediterranean...
...Colder than normal in the Northeast...
...wind had picked up and the sun had started hiding behind intermittent clouds. The press corps was getting colder. Were there any reporters inside the church in the warmth...
These numbers are expected to more than double when colder weather comes, says George Greenidge Jr., the director of the center and its only full-time employee...
...finds in these suicides, as he terms it, a "colder" reality. Periodically, in a diseased institution, whether it is a government, Wall Street or a single collapsed corporation, the dirt on the table incites a wave of suicides...