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Now the interest is in the other direction, but Domaines Barons de Rothschild, the company which owns the elite Chateau Lafite premier cru, has invested in land near Penglai in the Shandon peninsula, an area with buy wow gold climatic conditions similar to those in Bordeaux.

Over the years it hopes to develop a world-class top-quality Chinese wine. Christophe Salin is a director at the Domaines Barons de Rothschild:

"I think we have isolated cheap wow gold  a very nice part in the region of Penglai where we can first of all plant a small vineyard, twenty-five hectares, where we think we can achieve a great wine. But I mean we will be judged by generations."

The reason behind the move is simple. As a nation, China is now among the world's leading tiffany jewellery consumers of wine. By 2011 it's reckoned that the Chinese will be drinking more than one billion bottles a year.

The vast majority of what they consume is home-grown, but they have a weakness for the great French vintages.

For Chateau Lafite it's an obvious business opportunity: tiffany to be a great French name in China.

It's the world's first historical thesaurus, grouping words by meaning and by date. And it survived fire, lack of funds and the death of some of its founders.

Tomorrow the work links of london will finally be unveiled to academics prior to its publication in October.

Professor Christian Kay of the University of Glasgow began work on the project as a 28-year-old research assistant. She's now 69 and thinks it will be invaluable to scholars not just of linguistics but of cultural and social history.

Professor Kay:

"You know, if you're interested in something like clothes, it's very interesting to see what people have been wearing for the last 1,300 years.Louis Vuitton handbags  So I was looking at a whole list of words to do with trousers and there were words that would never have occurred to you probably that these words meant trousers."

That's where a thesaurus beats a dictionary, she says. But it's much harder work to compile. In the early days they simply wrote the words on slips of paper and grouped them in different ways.

Professor Kay remembers the dreadful day when the building caught fire and they nearly lost ten years' work. Fortunately the slips were in metal filing cabinets and survived.

Now all that work, and all those words, can be shared with the world.