Steps away from City Hall subway station is one of the city's Joseon dynasty palaces, Deoksugung , where you can sample a quieter side of Seoul.

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Or hit up Nobu, one of the many outposts of the famed sushi dynasty, where Russian models and Armani-clad businessmen dine on slabs of rich fatty tuna sashimi at a long stone bar.

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If her grandmother had really signed the treaties, as she said, she might have been one of their aristocrats, the descendant of a ruling dynasty.

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China has been producing wine of one sort or another since the early days of the Tang Dynasty (around 625).

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If it pans out, then Jin tombs could point to a significant shift in thinking in 12th-century China and provide one more reason to pay attention to this little-known dynasty.

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The first Aoyama work one encounters is "Idle Evening, " a poem by the Chinese Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi, first exhibited in 1938 by the prestigious Taito Shodoin calligraphic association when the artist was in his 20s.

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But Tudor Morgan, the heir to the dynasty, is back behind a counter once again - 10, 000 miles away in one of the world's most southerly shop at Port Lockroy on Antarctica.

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The League One club turned down a takeover bid by Swiss-based fund manager Sebastien Sainsbury, a member of the supermarket dynasty, in November.

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