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	Loulan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Loulan (樓蘭; pinyin: Lóulán) is an ancient town founded in the second century BC on the north-eastern edge of the Taklamakan desert.
		Loulan was an ancient kingdom along China's Silk Road in Xinjiang.
		Loulan was rediscovered by Sven Hedin in 1899, who excavated some houses and found a wooden Kharosthi tablet and many Chinese manuscripts from the later Han dynasty (third century A.D.).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Loulan (392 words)

	Straight Lesbians Or Denying Bisexuality?
		Loulan explained that she believed sexual orientation is based upon a spirituality, the heart and a certain emotional bonding -- not sex.
		Loulan did not claim her relationship with her male friend was merely sex however.
		Loulan's words -- And I have no intention of condemning her -- but she is a perfect example of what I have been observing in LGBT politics lately.
	lesbianworlds.com /articles/politics/033098.htm (644 words)

	Loulan vanished in sand - The Washington Times: World Briefings - January 14, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Tarim River gathers its water from the Kunlun Mountains in the south, the Pamirs in the west and the Tian Shan Mountains in the north, and flows in an eastward arc along the northern edges of the Taklamakan, an ancient inland sea, toward the salt marshes of Lop Nor.
		Loulan, a town on the Silk Road connecting China to Europe, was abandoned in the sixth century and slowly erased from the face of the Earth by centuries of blowing sand.
		In 77 B.C., at a banquet held in Loulan to greet the Chinese envoy Fu Jiezi, Chang Gui, the king of Loulan, was stabbed to death by the envoy's guards and his severed head was hung from the tower of the northern gate.
	washingtontimes.com /world/20050113-104224-1613r.htm (1996 words)

	China Travel News :: Xinjiang relic may soon open to the public
		The Loulan ancient city known as "Oriental Pompeii" is expected to partly open to the public in two years.
		The Loulan kingdom was located in the north of Ruoqiang County, Bayangol Mongolia Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 500km southwest to Dunhuang.
		Ancient Loulan was the first station to leave Yangguan Pass in the west on the way of the ancient Silk Road.
	www.chinatravel.com /china-travel-guides/china-travel-news/china-travel-news-2005/china-travel-news-2005-10/xinjiang-relic-may-soon-o.shtml (361 words)

	Korla The Ruins Loulan City-Silk Road City Guide
		The ancient Loulan city on the western bank of Lop Nur is located at 40° 9' 5'' north and 89° 5' 2'' east.
		The discovery of the ancient Loulan city confirmed that the ancient State of Loulan once had a historical period of flourishing and development, but later it became a desert.
		These silk clothes discovered in the Loulan area all belonged to the products of the inland provinces during the Eastern Han Dynasty in China, and it shows that the silk fabrics made in China had been the staple commodity on the ancient Silk Road in the very early years.
	www.silk-road-china.com /korla/loulan-ruins.htm (1024 words)

	Almanac: Friends launch local feature film project (March 22, 2006)
		JoAnn Loulan, who's lived in Portola Valley for 19 years, and her son, Gardner Loulan, now a VJ (video jockey) at MTV's university channel, have sparked the effort.
		Loulan started writing and putting on plays with neighborhood kids when he was 6.
		Loulan is the film director; his mother is the producer.
	www.almanacnews.com /story.php?story_id=1393 (446 words)

	Loulan Construction
		Loulan Construction was founded in 1984 by Louis Conradie, who qualified from the University of Pretoria as a Civil Engineer.
		Many satisfied clients, some of whom deal repeatedly with the company, and numerous Industrial, Commercial and residential buildings are solid testament to the outstanding quality and attention to detail that is so important to the Company.
		Some critics have agreed that Loulan Construction is indeed one of the fastest growing companies in the Lowveld.
	www.loulan.co.za (209 words)

	Coin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		True coins also developed very close to this time frame in both India and China.
		In 1979 and 1980, a Chinese architectural team excavating the region surrounding the ancient kingdom of Loulan discovered some Mesolithic stone tools and coins (see Loulan: Modern Chinese Expeditions).
		Throughout history, governments have been known to create more coinage than their supply of precious metals would allow.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coin (1464 words)

	iD Tech Camps - Press Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Loulan, a member of the festival's advisory board.
		Loulan made initial phone contacts to local schools and Shelby took over the follow-up.
		Speaker is Gardner Loulan, who grew up in Portola Valley and now, at 23, is the VJ (video jockey) for "mtvU," a music and news channel shown on college campuses across the country.
	www.internaldrive.com /article_almanac_march05.htm (614 words)

	www.azstarnet.com
		Frank Loulan has done everything he can think of to validate his same-sex relationship in the ways most married couples take for granted.
		Earlier this year, Loulan and his partner of more than 10 years, Richard Pearce-Moses, traveled to Vermont for a quiet civil union ceremony at a bed and breakfast.
		Loulan, a Phoenix native, has seen how the political and social climate has shifted in Arizona but said it can still be painful when his relationship is not accepted.
	www.azstarnet.com /census/4th.html (757 words)

	Ancient City of Loulan: Korla Tourist Attractions
		Loulan was established as a kingdom in 176 B.C. and flourished for over 800 years.
		As one of the major stops on the old Silk Road, the city was a center for the trading of silks, teas, fruit and jewels with the inland.
		Perhaps the most famous discovery at the Loulan site is the Sanjian Fang, a three-room building said to be the yamen of the area's governor, and a pagoda with 10.4 m.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/xinjiang/korla/loulan.htm (709 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Cover Story 03 19 02
		Luckily, today is Loulan's 81st birthday, and we'll end the afternoon with a trip to Cut Off and a visit with Scrap, who'd earned a reputation not only as someone who likes to "get into it," as Glen says, but is a heckuva storyteller.
		We're greeted at the door by Loulan and Emelia, who is all smiles as she dotes on her son.
		Loulan's getting over a cough of some kind, and says he isn't feeling well, but is well enough to offer an update on the progress of his latest passion: gardening.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2002-03-19/cover_story.html (5024 words)

	THE ARTS / Atherton film fest offers kid's-eye view of the world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The one-day Windy Hill event is the culmination of a whirl of brainstorming and planning that began in September with a trip to the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado.
		Loulan called all of them to gauge their interest in submitting films for the event.
		The day will include a workshop by Loulan's son, Gardner, who is a VJ for MTVu, the MTV network focused on college interests and broadcast on more than 700 campuses nationwide.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/08/PNGJ7C0U2R1.DTL&type=printable (930 words)

	The Takla Makan Mummies
		The discoveries in the 1980s of the undisturbed 4,000-year-old ”Beauty of Loulan” and the younger 3,000-year-old body of the ”Charchan Man” are legendary in world archaeological circles for the fine state of their preservation and for the wealth of knowledge they bring to modern research.
		His nearly 2.00 meter (six-foot, six-inch) long body is the tallest of all the mummies found so far and the clothes and artifacts discovered in the surrounding tombs suggest the highest level of Caucasoid civilization in the ancient Tarim Basin region.
		Dressed only in shades of brown, she was alive as early as 2000 B.C. during the era of Abraham and the patriarchs.
	www.meshrep.com /PicOfDay/mummies/mummies.htm (655 words)

	BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Silent Giants as Guides on an Ancient Thoroughfare - New York Times
		Then there is the Beauty of Loulan, a thousand years older then the Cherchen man; she also has Caucasian features, and is dressed in woolen clothing and provided with a winnowing tray that is placed on her chest with some grains of domesticated wheat.
		There is something both horrible and endearing about mummies, with their hollow eyes and shrunken skins, their defiance of fleshly disintegration and their status as mute witnesses of ancient times.
		Barber, whose ''Mummies of Urumchi'' is an ingenious and far-reaching exposition of the meaning of Cherchen Man, the Beauty of Loulan and various other archeological finds to which she makes reference.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E7DC1531F930A25752C0A96F958260 (746 words)

	Korla travel guide, Xinjiang China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The ancient State of Loulan was a small state established in the Western Regions in ancient times.
		The culture of ancient Loulan has been submerged by the desert for many years, and at last it has reappeared in the world.
		Obviously, the residents' leaving from the ancient Loulan city, the withdrawing of the generals and soldiers who had garrisoned and reclaimed the region here made the farmland become desert, and their rigatoni canals were blocked up because they had long been out of repair.
	www.cnhomestay.com /city/cityguides/korla.htm (2584 words)

	The Trail Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Unfortunately, such an absolutist view on the issue also places limitations on people in a world where people are more versatile than biology or even people themselves realize.
		Loulan suffered huge backlash from her lesbian friends and loved ones when she found that to her own surprise, she had fallen in love with a man. She also faced confusion over her identity, if not in her own mind.
		Voluntarily claiming identification and labels can be comforting for people who start to question their own orientation and could use some stability.
	asups.ups.edu /trail/Articles/DispForm.aspx?ID=436 (689 words)

	Irreverent Film Lands Student Job With MTV
		After slipping past security, Loulan and his roommate found a staircase to the attic of the opera house and made their way backstage.
		Morgan Hertzan, the coordinating producer for mtvU who hired Loulan nearly three years ago, said Loulan is a natural in front of the camera.
		Loulan has since led two Global Outreach trips—one to Montana, Colorado and South Dakota, where students performed community service, including working on a Lakota reservation; and another to Waynesburg, Pa., where students built homes with Habitat for Humanity.
	www.fordham.edu /Student_Affairs/Inside_Fordham/Inside_Fordham_Archi/May_2004/News/Irreverent_Film_Land_16869.asp (578 words)

	Xinjiang Mummies
		The Loulan mummies (actually from Qäwrighul near the town of Loulan) include the Beauty of Loulan and a few other mummies including an eight-year-old child wrapped in a piece of patterned wool cloth and closed with bone pegs.
		The wool clothing from Loulan seems to be much less colorful (in much more neutral, earth-tone colors--though fading could have occurred), but it is no less impressive in its patterns and weaves.
		The Cherchen and Loulan mummies are exhibited at the Provincial Museum of Ürümchi.
	www.mummytombs.com /mummylocator/group/xinjiang.htm (660 words)

	Ancient Loulan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The worldly known remains of the Ancient City of Loulan in Xinjiang is in the west of Lop Nur.
		Chinese silks, tea, and jewelries were firstly exported to other regions and countries through the Ancient City of Loulan.
		The remains of the Ancient City of Loulan cover an area of 12,000 square kilometers (about 4,633 square miles).
	www.warriortours.com /cityguides/korla/loulan.htm (175 words)

	Template 2A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Loulan has appeared on the Oprah show and on ABC’s “20-20” program to talk about this change.
		Again, even Loulan’s critics never accuse her of fostering hatred and violence against gays, nor of provoking gay suicide.
		When Loulan, a longtime lesbian activist and the author of Lesbian Sex, became involved with a man and decided to talk about it, she subsequently received a great deal of
	www.pfox.org /asp/newsman/templates/newstemplate.asp?articleid=9&zoneid=5 (1176 words)

	Increasing Moral Standards is Essential to Keeping Living Creatures Thriving on Earth
		Loulan was the capital of Loulan Province and an essential city on the "silk road." Given its importance to the economy at that time, Loulan had a large population, especially merchants and other businessman.
		The earliest record of Loulan City can be found in Shiji by Sima Qian and it reads as follows, "Loulan City and Gushi City were surrounded by city walls and both were located at a salt lake".
		It was said that jadestones could be found in the vicinity of Loulan and along the lakeshore were many reeds, willows, miniature poplar trees and white grass.
	www.pureinsight.org /pi/index.php?news=1393 (2452 words)

	MTV visits Penn State, excites students
		Hearing dialogue between Loulan and F8 was nearly impossible, as Loulan admitted later.
		Still, things remained casual until the bus driver announced "MTV is in the house." Those sitting in the front were now standing in the back, pleading with Loulan to calm their insatiable appetites to be interviewed.
		Loulan did talk with a few as others crowded around, shouting at the camera.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/2001/10/10-29-01tdc/10-29-01dnews-4.asp (665 words)

	AlterNet: MediaCulture: A New Role for Reporters in China
		Last summer, I went to the western China to the ancient and mysterious area of Loulan, which was a very important empire on the Silk Road, an ancient trading route from China to Europe.
		There used to be large patches of forests and lakes in Loulan.
		The Loulan region is near the Gansu, a western Chinese province.
	alternet.org /mediaculture/12004 (1458 words)

	MUSEUM SECURITY MAILINGLIST REPORTS
		During last month's Spring Festival period, the ruins of Loulan, under the jurisdiction of Ruoqiang (Qarkilik) in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, again became the focus of media and archaeological circles, when a local paper reported that some people had stumbled upon the legendary royal mausoleum of Loulan which had been looted.
		Earlier last month, Lin Meicun, a professor with Peking University and a prestigious scholar on Loulan, had said that it was unlikely to be the mausoleum of the Loulan Kings.
		Historic annals record that the Loulan Kingdom, which established itself around 2nd century BC, was renamed the Shanshan Kingdom in 77 BC, and lasted until about the 5th to the 6th centuries AD, explained Zhang.
	www.museum-security.org /03/035.html (4818 words)

	Newsletter #90—Guest Column: Reflections on Breast Cancer
		BCA Board Member JoAnn Loulan is a guest columnist for this issue of the newsletter.
		She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, at age 44.
		Her mother, Billie Loulan, died of breast cancer in 1975 at the age of 53.
	www.bcaction.org /Pages/SearchablePages/2006Newsletters/Newsletter090B.html (1668 words)

	Replies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Loulan is the area where all the Caucasian mummies were found that date back to 2000BC.
		There is a Caucasian mummy named "The Beauty Of Loulan," from this area, whose face the Ugyhars have reconstructed and now call here the 'mother of their country' and here image appears on various state documents and flags.
		I will post images of 'The Beauty Of Loulan' and an article (The Curse Of The Red-Headed Mummy) about the other mummies from this area.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1094206/replies?c=1 (316 words)

	Guardians watch mysterious ancient civilization - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
		Someone did come since the Loulan Cultural Relics Protection Station moved from the historic site of Loulan city to its current place in May after a tomb was robbed in February.
		Located at the eastern fringe of the vast, desolate Taklimakan Desert in southern Xinjiang, Loulan was one of the 36 Western Regions states in Chinese history, situated at the juncture of the southern and northern routes of the world-famous ancient Silk Road.
		The site of the ancient Loulan Kingdom, now legendary for its splendor, has enthralled the world since its discovery at the beginning of the 20th century until the present.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=8653 (510 words)

	china silk, silk scraf, silk scarves
		A team of Chinese archeologists have discovered new cultural relics in the ruins of the ancient Loulan city, which is supposed to be the capital of the Loulan Kingdom and is part of Chinese ancient civilization that vanished 1,500 years ago.
		Loulan city suddenly disappeared from the area in the third century, leaving a wealth of enigmas for later generations.
		No traces of Loulan had been found until 100 years ago when Swedish explorer Sven Hedin accidentally discovered the ruins of the ancient city buried in desert.
	www.tt7.org /hghdistributor.html (325 words)

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