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798 Art ZoneHow an abandoned complex of military factory buildings became the heart of Beijing's modern art scene. Aoshima, EhimeAn island where cats outnumber humans 36:1. Weirdly not the only cat island in Japan (see: Tashirojima). ArtsvashenAn Armenian town surrounded and controlled by Azerbaijan. One of a number of similar towns on this border; others include Yukhari Askipara, Barxudarlı and Karki. Atar, Padang GantingAn Indonesian village with a monument resembling a photocopier. Bust of Ferdinand MarcosA Mount Rushmore in the Philippines, right down to displacing its indigenous inhabitants. It was mercifully blown up by rebels in 2002. Camp BonifasThe bunkers on this golf course feature machine-guns and landmines. Chao Mae Tuptim shrineA shrine dedicated to penises in Bangkok, built in the early 20th century by a Thai businessman, on the edge of his property. Christmas IslandA small island and external territory of Australia close to Indonesia that is mainly known for having up to 100 million crabs migrate to spawn there every year. Dahala KhagrabariIndia inside Bangladesh inside India inside Bangladesh. Formerly the only third-order enclave in the wor

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Yifan, a fantasy novelist, was browsing Chinese Wikipedia looking for inspiration in history, when he first learned of the great silver mine of Kashin. Originally opened by the principality of Tver, an independent state from the 13th to 15th centuries, it grew to be one of the world’s biggest, a city-sized early modern industry worked by some 30,000 slaves and 10,000 freedmen. Its fabulous wealth made it a vital resource to the princes of Tver, but also tempted the powerful dukes of Moscow, who attempted to seize the mine in a series of wars that sprawled across the land that is now Russia from 1305 to 1485. “After the fall of the Principality of Tver, it continued to be mined by the Grand Duchy of Moscow and its successor regime until the mine was closed in the mid-18th century due to being exhausted,” the entry said.

Yifan went down the rabbit hole on the Kashin mine and the Tver-Moscow War, learning about battles, the personalities of aristocrats and engineers, and more history surrounding the forgotten mine. There were hundreds of related articles describing this obscure period of Slavic history in the dull, sometimes suggestive, tone of the online encyclopedia.

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