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This article is more than 10 years old. Sure, Chinese Internet users may be dominating the news lately, but it's the Dutch who really know their way around the 'net.
A Chinese legend tells how straw shoes came into being: An impoverished old man eked out a living by chopping up and selling firewood. When fetching wood from the mountains, he often injured his ...
A pair of 1,400-year-old goat leather shoes were brought back to their original grandeur after archaeologists restored the footwear. The items were found inside China's Astana Tombs, one of many ...
AMSTERDAM, Dec 23 (Reuters) - The Dutch are known worldwide for their wooden shoes, but the recent rare discovery of a 500-year-old one in the city of Alkmaar has shown just how widespread their ...