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Today In History June 10

2020-12-31T04:55:27Z

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HIGHLIGHTS IN HISTORY ON THIS DATE 1190 - Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa drowns trying to cross the Saleph River in Cilicia (now in Turkey) while on the Third Crusade to free Jerusalem. 1793 - First public zoo, the Jardin des Plantes, opens in Paris. 1794 - Power of French revolutionary tribunals is increased, leading to mass executions. 1835 - Formation of Australia's first political party, the Australian Patriotic Party. 1865 - The first performance of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde takes place in Munich. 1838 - At least 28 unarmed Aboriginals are killed at Myall Creek, in central NSW, by a group of stockmen. Seven men are later found guilty and hanged for the massacre. 1906 - Death of Richard John Seddon, prime minister of New Zealand (1893-1906). 1908 - Australia's federal parliament passes the Invalid and Old-Age Pensions Act, offering means-tested financial support to the [http://www.britannica.com/search?query=elderly elderly] and infirm. 1917 - Sinn Fein riots break out in Dublin. 1933 - Australian Women's Weekly is first published. 1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, by William G Wilson and Dr Robert Smith. 1940 - Italy enters World War II against France and Britain as Germany's ally. 1941 - Recruiting begins for the Torres Strait Defence Force. 1943 - Hungarian journalist Laszlo Biro patents his ball-point pen. 1944 - Nazi troops massacre nearly all the residents of Oradour-sur-Glane, France, in a reprisal against the French resistance movement. The last Japanese aircraft is shot down by the RAAF in the New Guinea campaign. 1960 - Fokker Friendship crashes at Mackay, north Queensland, killing 29. 1977 - James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, escapes from prison in Tennessee with six others. He is recaptured three days later. 1988 - Riot police in South Korea block thousands of students trying to march to North Korea for reunification talks. 1989 - China and Taiwan open direct telephone links; 1000 students are arrested after students battle riot police in demand for overthrow of South Korean President Roh Tae-woo. 1991 - Iraqi troops begin attacking Shi'ite Muslims in southern Iraq who rebelled after Gulf War. 1993 - Scientists announce they have extracted genetic material from the preserved remains of an insect that lived when dinosaurs roamed the earth. 1994 - In one incident of the Rwandan genocide, Hutu militiamen massacre 170 people hiding in a Roman Catholic church. 1996 - Australian swimmer Susie Maroney claims record by swimming from Cuba to the US in 37 hours, despite falling short of land. 1997 - Top Khmer Rouge lieutenant Son Sen and his family are executed on the orders of leader Pol Pot. 1998 - President Nursultan Nazarbayev formally opens Kazakhstan's new capital city Astana. 1999 - Yugoslav troops begin pulling out of Kosovo and NATO suspends its punishing 78-day air war. 2001 - Media baron Silvio Berlusconi becomes Italy's prime minister for the second time after his party wins 30 per cent of the vote, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html tour du lịch quế lâm] more than any other party. His government is Italy's 59th since World War II. 2002 - India reopens its airspace to Pakistani commercial flights, in the first signs that it is ready to ease the standoff over the border shared by the two nations in Kashmir. 2003 - Former Lebanon hostage Terry Waite, 64, who was chained to the wall of a Beirut cell for nearly five years, agrees to spend a day in a British prison to raise money for charity. 2004 - Ray Charles, who overcame poverty, blindness and heroin addiction to become one of America's most beloved entertainers and to be hailed as The Father of Soul, dies aged 73. 2005 - Some 117 people, most of them children, drown when a flash flood sweeps through a primary school in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province. 2006 - Three Guantanamo Bay detainees hang themselves, the first reported deaths among the hundreds of men held at the base in Cuba on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban. 2008 - The chief of Saddam Hussein's tribal clan is killed by a bomb glued to the undercarriage of his car. 2010 - Pope Benedict XVI strongly defends celibacy for priests as a sign of faith in an increasingly secular world during a rally that draws some 15,000 priests from around the world to Rome. 2011 - In a stern rebuke, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates warns that the future of the historic NATO military alliance is at risk because of European penny-pinching and distaste for front-line combat and says the US won't carry the alliance as a charity case. 2012 - Opposition leader Henri Capriles marches through the Venezuelan capital of Caracas accompanied by hundreds of thousands of supporters as he formally launches his campaign to run against President Hugo Chavez. 2013 - Bombs explode across Iraq, killing at least 70 people. 2014 - Jihadist followers of the al-Qaeda splinter group ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) seize Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, in a spectacular blow to the Shi'ite-led government of Nuri al-Maliki. Australia Post announces it will cut 900 jobs over the next year. 2016 - Mourners line the streets of Muhammad Ali's hometown of Louisville to farewell the boxing great who died aged 74. 2017 - New security measures are announced for Melbourne's CBD to combat the threat of terrorism, including temporary bollards at some of the city's most crowded places. 2018 - Perth's "grand old lady" Princess Margaret Hospital closes after 109 years as sick children are moved without a hitch to the newly opened Perth's Children's Hospital. 2019 - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam refuses to back down on controversial extradition laws and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] is accused as a "puppet" for Beijing by the pro-democracy movement. Today's Birthdays: Gustave Courbet, French artist (1819-1877); Nikolaus August Otto, German developer of internal combustion engine (1832-1891); Henry Stanley, English explorer (1840-1904); Lang Hancock, Australian mining magnate (1909-1992); Saul Bellow, US novelist and Nobel laureate (1915-2005); Britain's Prince Philip (1921-); Judy Garland, US singer-actor (1922-1969); Robert Maxwell, Czech-born British media tycoon (1923-1991); Maurice Sendak, author of Where The Wild Things Are (1928-2012); Ian McCahon Sinclair, Australian politician (1929-); David Walker, Australian racing driver (1941-); Tony Mundine, Australian boxer (1951-); John Edwards, American politician and lawyer (1953-); Jeanne Tripplehorn, US actor (1963-); Tony Martin, New Zealand comedian (1964-); Elizabeth Hurley, British actress (1965-); Justin Eveson, Australian Paralympic athlete (1970-); Kyle Sandilands, Australian radio host (1971-); Faith Evans, US singer (1973-); Tara Lipinski, US Olympic champion ice skater (1982-); Kate Upton, US model and actress (1992-). Thought for Today: History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past - Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American author (1879-1958).

China: Facts About China The Geography The Economy The Military And More.

2020-12-30T21:07:23Z

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Tang Changhong, a member of the communist party, noted that previously China copied other countries in their technology, but now as a result of greater investment in research and development</a>, China is focusing on its own designs. [ ], and thereafter, they will probably be the most advanced military in the world - on a third of the budget that America uses. BBC Documentary of the Chinese Army Architecture in China During ancient times, Chinese used wood as a building material. While stone is used, the Forbidden City (a palace with 9,000 rooms) has a framework of timber. As China is very old, it has used many different materials for its structures. Rammed earth and stonework are common. Today concrete is the norm. Hong Kong, rented by the British Empire for a century and now reverted to China, has more of the world's tallest buildings than any other nation on earth. Modern Chinese architecture boasts some of the most advanced and spectacular architecture in the world. As a result of pollution caused by intense manufacturing, the air in China degraded to such an extent in some places that it was becoming a major health threat. Consequently, many of the buildings have been greening projects with trees and other greenery lacing walls, the roof and balconies. The Jinmao Tower in Shanghai has a glass walkway on its 88th floor. It takes half an hour to walk and is $58 to tourists. Glass walkways are a specialty of China, and this one is 340 meters (1,115 feet) above ground level. The Shanghai Tower, the winner of Tien-yow Jeme Civil Engineering Prize in 2018, is the tallest building currently in China. It is unusual in that it gives the [http://www.msnbc.com/search/appearance appearance] of twisting around. It was designed by an American firm (Gensler) and has 128 floors. While most countries in the world have some spectacular buildings, China, in my opinion, is paradise for any architectural geek. [ ], the enormity and artistic license permitted and encouraged can only be attested to by viewing the diversity of different styles. Underwater Quarry Hotel in Shanghai Public Transport in China China has the world's longest bullet train routes (18,000 miles) in the world. While not as fast as Japan's bullet trains, they're not doing too badly at 217 mph. Virtually all the [ ], so citizens can reach other cities with ease. It also makes life easier for tourish. One of the arguments I constantly hear against bullet trains being implemented in the USA is that the USA is so big. Yet China has managed to have the largest network of bullet trains in the world. Bullet Trains in China The Population of China China has a population of 1.4 billion, about eighteen percent of the world's people. There are several different ethnic groups in China, of which the largest group is the Han. They comprise about 92% of the population. The other eight percent (about 108 million) comprises 55 different groups including the Zhuang which has about 16 million members. Next in line are the the Hui, the Manchu, Uyghur, the Miao, the Yi,and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html tour du lịch quế lâm] the Tujia. They average about ten million each. Then close to about five million people in each group are the Tibetans and the Mongols, and finally the Dong, the Buyei, the Yao, the Bai, the Korean, the Hani , the Li the , Kazakh, and Dai with about one or two million each. Eight different languages are spoken, each of which has hundreds of different dialects. Mandarin is the world's most spoken language. China's landmass is almost as big as the USA.China geographically. The Geography of China China covers nearly twenty percent of Asia. It is bordered by India, Pakistan, Nepal, Mongolia, Vietnam, Russia, Burma, and North Korea. This article gives some geographical information about the country. The land area of China is spread over 3.7 million square miles, much of it covered with mountains. It has an eleven thousand mile coastline alongside the Pacific Ocean and has deserts, rivers, and grasslands. There are two islands associated with China and they are Taiwan and Hainan. Taiwan has a population of/ about twenty three million people and has separated itself politically from the People's Republic of China. Hainan is smaller than Taiwan, has a tropical climate and is known as the Oriental Hawaii. China has an inland sea called the Bohai Sea. It covers an area of about 300,000 square miles and there are approximately one hundred cities on its coastal areas. Because also borders the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea, it has the largest fishing resources in the world. Most of its fish are caught in the East China Sea. The major rivers in China are the Yangtze River which is 3,700 miles long and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-huu-nghi-quan-nam-ninh-que-lam-4-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] its waters are used for both watering crops and for hydroelectric power. The Yellow River is 3,500 miles long and is often responsible for floods during monsoon time. Other names for the Yellow River are the Huanghe River and the Mother River of China. The Pearl River links Hong Kong with the South China Sea. The largest mountain ranges in China are the Himalayas, the Yellow Mountains, and the Limestone Mountains of Guilin. The Himalayas are the highest mountains on earth and include Mount Everest which is the highest peak on earth. The Yellow Mountains, in the Anhui Province, is known for its granite peaks. The Limestone Mountain range is known for its limestone! Thirty percent of China's landmass is covered by deserts. The Gobi Desert is about one thousand miles long and six hundred miles wide. It is growing and is the third largest desert in the world. Beijing is close to the Gobi Desert and is increasingly affected by the winds of the desert storms. Included in China's vast array of different topography are forests and glaciers. Forests cover an additional eighteen percent of China's landmass. China is currently working on projects to increase this to twenty percent. Many of these forests are situated in the north eastern area of China. The Qinghai-Tiber Plateau in the north western region of China's many glaciers. Scientists often visit this area because it is an area where global warming can be measured. Like many large countries, it has many different climate zones. These include the tropical island of Hainan which has no winter and the far north of Heilongjiang Province which has no summer! The monsoon climate covers the area alongside the Pacific coastline while the alpine climate covers the Himalayan Mountain Range. The Gobi Desert is very cold at night and extremely hot during the day. Chinese economy is only now growing at 5% per year... The Economy of China The Chinese Communist Party is responsible for the economic model of China. An economic system is defined as a system of production and distribution. Currently, China has introduced aspects of capitalism. However, rather than members of the public deciding what they want to produce or sell, the Communist Party tells people who apply to them to own and run a business what the country needs or what products have a high demand. This means that China does not produce products that are not in demand, and it also means that it uses resources in a way that does not lead to waste. That said, the pollution caused by denim production, viscose (rayon), and other fashion items had led to entire cities being so polluted that people have had to move elsewhere. Currently, outside of the European Union, the Chinese economy is the largest in the world with the US being third. There is some argument about this, as it depends on what figures are used. In the link provided, China is placed first, the European Union second, and the United States third. To quote, "In 2018, [ ] for the fourth year in a row. It produced $25.3 trillion in economic output according to estimates by the International Monetary Fund. It contributed 19% of the world's total gross domestic product of $135.2 trillion." Unusual places to visit in China Would you like to visit China Yes. I have visited it before, and I will go again. No. I have no interest Yes, I've never been but I want to go.[# See results] Tourism in China According to Wikipedia, [ ]. France, the USA, and Spain rank first, second, and third place. However, is Hong Kong is included in the mix, then China has the most tourists in the world - about a hundred million. Tourist attractions include the Great Wall of China, the Forbidden City, the Potala Palace, the Terracotta Army, and Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. The Bund, an area in Shanghai also draws many people. The Chinese Tourist industry is growing rapidly as more and more people become curious about China.

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