The affection modern people display to their ancestors' wisdom never withers.
Su Daocheng, a retired worker and invention enthusiast, created a 1.5-meter-tall, 2-meter-long and 250 kg mechanical horse by using a kart engine and some chains and irons to imitate a famous but lost invention.

"Muniuliuma", a freight transport vehicle recorded in history, was believed to have been invented by Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu Kingdom in the Three Kingdoms period (AD220-280). It is said that the invention transported army provisions on rugged roads without consuming energy and costing much labor.


Unlike "Muniuliuma", the mechanical horse Su invented needs oil as fuel but it can be as useful as a meal-free "farm cattle".

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Spanish PM Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero inadvertently used the F-word while expounding on a tourism agreement with Moscow in the presence of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

At a joint press conference,he said,

"There is a big increase in the number of Spanish tourists heading to Russia,the number is at 500,000,we have therefore decided to sign an agreement to stimulate,to favour, to f...to support this tourism".

In Spanish the expression "para follar," meaning "to f---," is pronounced very similarly to the expression "para apoyar," or "to support".