God Is an Astronaut "All Is Violent, All Is Bright" being re-released. The single "Fragile" from the album received plays on MTV2 UK's 120 minute show and MTV's show "The Comedown". Their third album, "Far from Refuge", was released in April 2007 on Revive Records and as a download via their website. Their fourth, self-titled album "God Is an Astronaut" was released 7 November 2008 on Revive Records. On 12 February 2010, a single was released on their website titled "In The Distance Fading", the second song from their fifth album, called "Age of the Fifth Sun", released on 17 May 2010. That year
Chinese as a foreign language late 16th century. Among the first were the Italian Jesuits, Michele Ruggieri and Matteo Ricci. They mastered the language without the aid of any grammar books or dictionaries, and are often viewed as the first Western sinologists. Ruggeiri set up a school in Macau, which was the first for teaching foreigners Chinese and translated part of the "Great Learning" into Latin. This was the first translation of a Confucian classic into any European language. He also wrote a religious tract in Chinese, the first Chinese book written by a Westerner. Matteo Ricci brought Western sciences to China, and became a