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Welcome! I would like to welcome all visitors to this site – about 58% new and 41% returning cheap levitra. Visitors to this site who have gone further than the Home page are from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States.

I mentioned in the previous post a new article under the tab ‘Mahjong Terms 1780-1920′. This is a large piece of work that features the results of painstaking research. Those results contain a great deal of new information about the game and its geographical spread in China throughout the latter half of the 19th century and the 1st quarter of the 20th century.

It includes the various names of the game in particular localities and the social conditions in and around Shanghai that allowed it to spread and explode in popularity. It also features a hitherto unknown piece of evidence from Joseph Babcock’s wife which gives a good account of what Babcock was doing, and where, in China while working for the Standard Oil company. This also allows us to offer an explanation of where his name for his version of the game originated.

I have broken up the text into manageable sections, so each section may be read in isolation.

Also added is a new deck of cards – ‘Three Suits 21’ – to the Money-Suited Cards section. The deck is very similar to the ‘Three Suits 20’ deck.

Finally, new tile sets will be added shortly and, I hope, to feature more sets from guest collectors as well.