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 Chinese in Europe. In 1837, Nikita Bichurin opened the first European Chinese-language school in the Russian Empire. Since then sinology became an academic discipline in the West, with the secular sinologists outnumbering the missionary ones. Some of the big names in the history of linguistics took up the study of Chinese. Sir William Jones dabbled in it; instigated by Abel-Rémusat, Wilhelm von Humboldt studied the language seriously, and discussed it in several letters with the French professor. Local Chinese variants were still widely used up until a Qing dynasty decree in 1909 that mandated Mandarin as the official language of