Ming Vase

A mysterious woman tries to sell Abby a hideous old vase, and is killed as she exits Abby's shop, The Den of Antiquity. The vase then disappears, and Abby starts to investigate both the theft and the murder. But digging up skeletons buried in the history of the old Rosewood Plantation turns out to be a trespass on family secrets that threatens to get Abby killed.

Ming vase - A Ming vase is a vase from the period of the Ming Dynasty in China. Often described as being priceless, the Ming Vase has appeared in several computer and video games (starting with Colossal Cave Adventure), including the Worms series.

Sun Ming Ming - Sun Ming Ming (孫明明) is a Chinese basketball player who wears size 19 shoes, weighs 335 pounds, and stands at 7 foot 8 and 3/4 inches - making him one of the tallest living persons on the planet. He is from Harbin, China, in the Heilongjiang province, has played for the Junior Olympic team (U-18) and Daqing club, and came to the United States in early 2005 to train for a possible NBA career.

Jin Ping Mei - Jin Ping Mei (金瓶梅; pinyin: Jīn Píngméi, literally "The Plum in the Golden Vase", also translated as "The Golden Lotus") is a Chinese naturalistic novel composed in the vernacular (baihua) during the late Ming Dynasty, attributed to Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng. The first versions of the novel exist in handwritten scripts, and the first block-printed book was released only in 1610.

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