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Farmer’s Olympic “bird nest”?

You’ve all seen the Beijing National Stadium by now… But have you seen this farmer creation? (Actually, Aw Guo guesses that a farmer made it. We don’t know for sure.) Via IfGoGo (originally from Xiaonei). ...full story at Virtual China

from Virtual China on Thu, Jul 31 2008

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