Shangri-La City Shangri-La City Shangri-La or Xianggelila is a county-level city in northwestern Yunnan province, People's Republic of China and is the location of the seat of the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Shangri-La was formerly called Zhongdian County () but was renamed on 17 December 2001 and upgraded into a county-level city on 16 December 2014 as Shangri-La (other spellings: Semkyi'nyida, Xianggelila, or Xamgyi'nyilha) after the fictional land of Shangri-La in the 1933 James Hilton novel "Lost Horizon", in an effort to promote tourism in the area. The Tibetan population refers to this place by its traditional name Gyalthang or Gyaitang (;
Paradise Lost (Symphony X album) Paradise Lost (Symphony X album) Paradise Lost is the seventh studio album by progressive metal band Symphony X, released on June 26, 2007 through Inside Out Music. It is a concept album loosely inspired by John Milton's 1667 epic poem "Paradise Lost". The album was the band's first to chart on the U.S. "Billboard" 200, reaching No. 123 and remaining on that chart for a week, as well as reaching No. 1 on "Billboard"'s Heatseekers and the top 100 in five other countries. The album's release had been delayed numerous times since the announcement on November 16, 2005 that the