Naadam festival of Mongolia

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Michael Shapiro, Steppe lively: Mongolia's Naadam games. Washington Post,
Apr. 11, 2010 (available now).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/08/AR2010040805526.html
("When President Nixon visited China in 1972, he said that it takes a great
people to build a Great Wall. In Mongolia they countered: It takes an even
greater people to make them want to build it.")

steppe (n): "one of the vast usually level and treeless tracts in
southeastern Europe or Asia"
Naadam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naadam_Festival
(Mongolian for "games")
(c) For "del," see Deel (clothing)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deel_(clothing)
(usually made of silk)
(d) bacchanal (n; Etymology): "Latin, shrine of Bacchus): ORGY

Bacchus (n): "the Greek god of wine —called also Dionysus"

(e) celestial (adj): "1: of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity *
* * 3a: ETHEREAL, OTHERWORDLY  <celestial music>"
(f) bedraggle (vt): "to wet thoroughly"
(g) crinkle (n): WRINKLE

crinkly (adj)

All English definitions are from www.m-w.com.


---------------Separately
图辑：严寒侵袭蒙古. BBC Chinese, Mar. 29, 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2010/03/100329_gal_mongolia_herders.shtml

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