- pax xxxx
- The Pax Romana (Latin for "Roman Peace") was a long period of relative peace and stability experienced by the Roman Empire. It is traditionally dated as commencing from the accession of Caesar Augustus, founder of the Roman principate, in 27 BCE and concluding in 180 CE with the death of Marcus Aurelius, the last of the "good emperors".[1] Since it was inaugurated by Augustus with the end of the Final War of the Roman Republic, it is sometimes called the Pax Augusta. During this period of approximately 206 years, the Roman empire achieved its greatest territorial extent and its population reached a maximum of up to 70 million people – a third of the world’s population. According to Cassius Dio, the dictatorial reign of Commodus, later followed by the Year of the Five Emperors and the crisis of the third century, marked the descent "from a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust".
- The Pax Mongolica (Latin for "Mongol Peace"), less often known as Pax Tatarica ("Tatar Peace"), is a historiographical term modelled after the original phrase Pax Romana which describes the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast Eurasian territory that the Mongols conquered in the 13th and 14th centuries. The term is used to describe the eased communication and commerce the unified administration helped to create and the period of relative peace that followed the Mongols' vast conquests. The conquests of Genghis Khan (r. 1206–1227) and his successors, spanning from Southeast Asia to Eastern Europe, effectively connected the Eastern world with the Western world. The Silk Road, connecting trade centres across Asia and Europe, came under the sole rule of the Mongol Empire. It was commonly said that "a maiden bearing a nugget of gold on her head could wander safely throughout the realm". Despite the political fragmentation of the Mongol Empire into four khanates (Yuan dynasty, Golden Horde, Chagatai Khanate and Ilkhanate), nearly a century of conquest and civil war was followed by relative stability in the early 14th century. The end of the Pax Mongolica was marked by the disintegration of the khanates and the outbreak of the Black Death in Asia which spread along trade routes to much of the world in the mid-14th century.
- Pax Britannica (Latin for "British Peace", modelled after Pax Romana) was the period of relative peace between the Great Powers during which the British Empire became the global hegemonic power and adopted the role of a global police force. Between 1815 and 1914, a period referred to as Britain's "imperial century", around 10,000,000 square miles (26,000,000 km2) of territory and roughly 400 million people were added to the British Empire.[5] Victory over Napoleonic France left the British without any serious international rival, other than perhaps Russia in central Asia. When Russia tried expanding its influence in the Balkans, the British and French defeated them in the Crimean War (1854–1856), thereby protecting the Ottoman Empire. Britain's Royal Navy controlled most of the key maritime trade routes and enjoyed unchallenged sea power (in the latter part of the period such supremacy being protected by the "two-power standard'). Alongside the formal control exerted over its own colonies, Britain's dominant position in world trade meant that it effectively controlled access to many regions, such as Asia and Latin America. British merchants, shippers and bankers had such an overwhelming advantage over everyone else that in addition to its colonies it had an "informal empire".
- Pax Americana is primarily used in its modern connotations to refer to the peace among great powers established after the end of World War II in 1945, also called the Long Peace. In this modern sense, it has come to indicate the military and economic position of the United States in relation to other nations. For example, the Marshall Plan, which spent $13 billion to rebuild the economy of Western Europe, has been seen as "the launching of the pax americana".
- governor and company of merchants of the levant (founded in 1952) - regulated company which was an association of independent merchants
- governor and company of adventurers of england trading into hudson bay (founded in 1670)
- royal african company of england (founded in 1672)
- 美國眾議院周二（3日）以四百零七票贊成及一票反對，壓倒性通過《維吾爾人權政策法案》https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20191205/00176_011.html
- nuclear threat solution
- nigerian mission model - disarm north korea scmp 20jan19
- 據《華爾街日報》報道：美國政府的抗疫表現一直以來飽受詬病，該國十幾位頂尖科學家以及一批億萬富翁看不下去，主動聯合起來為遏制疫情出謀獻策，並與白宮密切溝通。這些人將自己的工作描述為「新冠曼哈頓計劃」，他們充當着美國製藥公司與特朗普政府決策者之間的中間人角色。 這支由頂尖化學生物學家、免疫生物學家、神經生物學家等科學家主導的團隊，自稱為新冠時期的「曼哈頓計劃」。領頭人卡希爾（Tom Cahill）年僅33歲，是一位從內科醫生轉型的風險投資人。他帶領這個小組編製了一份17頁的機密報告，指出對抗伊波拉病毒的藥物瑞德西韋仍然是對抗新冠肺炎最有希望的藥物，建議政府動員藥廠大規模生產瑞德西韋的準備。 另外，該報告還指出，平均新疫苗的研發和批準時間長達6至8年，呼籲政府出台規則加速疫苗研發，同時建議集中力量對疫苗和相關臨床試驗進行預期和管理。據悉，這份報告已經交至副總統彭斯手中。 曼哈頓計劃是美國在二戰期間動員科學家製造核彈的工程，集中了西方國家最優秀的科學家。http://www.takungpao.com.hk/news/232111/2020/0429/442871.html
- national school of government
- The National School of Government (previously known as the Civil Service College and the Centre for Management and Policy Studies, or CMPS) was the part of the Cabinet Office that ran training, organisational development and consultancy courses for UK civil servants and private individual learners. It was mostly based at Sunningdale Park, near Ascot in Berkshire, but had other centres in Edinburgh and London. National School of Government also managed Sunningdale Institute – a virtual academy of leading thinkers on management, organisation and governance. The National School of Government closed on 31 March 2012. Very few of its main functions have been taken on by a new body, Civil Service Learning, which is part of the Cabinet Office.
- The President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr Jacob Zuma, assented the Public Administration Management Act (PAM Act) on the 19th December 2014. According to Chapter 4, Section 11 of the Act, provision is made for the establishment of the National School of Government. The Act takes effect on a date determined by the President by proclamation in the Gazzette. https://www.thensg.gov.za/mandate/
- The Korea Society traces its roots to 1957 when a group of prominent Americans, under the leadership of General James A. Van Fleet, who commanded the U.S. armed forces in the final phase of the Korean War, established the first nonprofit organization in the United States dedicated to the promotion of friendly relations between the people of the United States and Korea "through mutual understanding and appreciation of their respective cultures, aims, ideals, arts, sciences and industries." As it exists today, The Korea Society is the successor to several interconnected organizations pursuing aspects of these objectives which were established through the joint efforts of Americans and Koreans over the ensuing decades, most notably, the New York-based U.S.-Korea Society and the Washington, DC-based U.S.-Korea Foundation. In June 1993, these two organizations were merged to form The Korea Society.https://www.koreasociety.org/about-us
- investhk
- investSA invest south africa, logo concept same as investhk
- deposit insurance corporation
- As a result of bank crashes in 1961-68, the Reserve Bank of India was requested to establish and monitor a deposit insurance system. Meant to restore the trust in the national bank system, it was initialized on 7 December 1961. The Indian government founded funds to promote the economy, and used the slogan "Developing Banking". The government of India restructured the national bank market and nationalized a lot of institutes. As a result, the RBI had to play the central part in controlling and supporting this public banking sector.
- The Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (Filipino: Korporasyon ng Segurong Deposito ng Pilipinas, abbreviated as PDIC) is a government-run Philippine deposit insurance fund. It was established on June 22, 1963 by Republic Act 3591. It guarantees deposits up to P500,000. Primary Functions of PDIC is to protect the small investors/depositors and to build a strong banking confidence.
- obamacare
- modicare
- 6日，首次粵港 澳大灣區司法案例研討會在廣州舉行。 研討會上，粵港澳法官、律師用模 擬法庭的方式，按內地、香港、澳門訴 訟程序分別對一起跨境商標權保護案件 進行了審理，以此對粵港澳法律制度的 差異進行比較性研究。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20200107/PDF/a7_screen.pdf
- riveria
- 江西南昌贛江東岸去年開始南延北延工程，冀打造總長度超過四十八點五公里、全國最長的濱江風光帶。當局又會在贛江西岸斥資十八億九千多萬元人民幣，建設佔地近廿五萬平方米的「江西省文化中心」，預計在明年的十一前後落地，成為當地新地標。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180307/00178_008.html
- australia
- silver coast (costa da prata), portugal
- 黃金海岸在秦皇島昌黎縣，北戴河南20公里。因遍地「金沙」和美麗海濱而得名。東望便是浩瀚大海，52公里海岸線上布滿橙黃似金的細沙，加之海清潮平，使沙浴、海水浴成為一大亮點，因此入選中國最美八大海岸。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2020/08/22/b08-0822.pdf
- international finance centre
- astana
- dubai
- trinidad and tobago
- Casablanca Finance City (CFC) is an economic and financial hub aspiring to become a bridging platform between the north and the south. It seeks to attract and encourage international institutions and investors to invest and operate in North, West and Central Africa and to choose Casablanca as a gateway to access this region. CFC intends to build an all-encompassing ecosystem evolving around three business categories: financial companies, professional services providers and regional or international headquarters of multinationals. Casablanca Finance City is created under law No. 44-10 enacted in December 2010, as amended and completed by law 68-12 enacted in June 2014. The law 44-10 creates the "CFC Status” and also entrusts Casablanca Finance City Authority with the overall management and institutional promotion of CFC.
- The Moscow International Business Center (MIBC) (Russian: Московский международный деловой центр, tr. Moskovskiy mezhdunarodniy delovoy tsentr), also known as Moskva-City, (Russian: Москва-Сити, tr. Moskva-Siti), is a commercial development located just east of the Third Ring Road at the western edge of the Presnensky District in the Central Administrative Okrug of the city of Moscow, Russia. As of 2019 the MIBC is still under development. Construction of the MIBC takes place on the Presnenskaya Embankment of the Moskva River, approximately 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) west of Red Square, overlooked by the Third Ring Road. The project occupies an area of 60 hectares.[3]The Moscow government first conceived the project in 1992, as a mixed development of office, residential, retail and entertainment facilities.
- The Federation Tower (Russian: Башня Федерации, romanized: Bashnya Federatsii) is a complex of two skyscrapers built on the 13th lot of the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC) in Moscow, Russia. The two skyscrapers are named Tower East or Vostok (Russian: Восток; literally means "East") and Tower West or Zapad (Russian: Запад; literally means "West").The complex is owned by the AEON Corporation, a Russian private international investment group.The higher tower of the complex located in the eastern part of lot number 13 was formerly known as Tower "A". But in November 2006, to avoid name competition with Naberezhnaya Tower, it was renamed Tower "Vostok (East)".
- building
- Busan International Finance Center is a skyscraper in Busan, South Korea. It was Topped-out in 2014 with a height of 289 m (948 feet). It is currently the third tallest building in Busan, and the fifth tallest in South Korea.
- looks like hk ifc
- The Square Mile and also known as the Golden Square Mile (officially in French: Le Mille Carré and also known as Mille carré doré) is the nostalgic name given to an urban neighbourhood developed principally between 1850 and 1930 at the foot of Mount Royal, in the west-central section of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The name "Square Mile" has been used to refer to the area since the 1930s; prior to that, the neighborhood was known as 'New Town' or 'Uptown'. The addition of 'Golden' was coined by Montreal journalist Charlie Lazarus, and the name has connections to contemporary real-estate developments, as the historical delimitations of the Golden Square Mile overlap with Montreal's contemporary central business district.
- MSC Cyberport Johor is a public-private partnership spearheaded by the State Government of Johor, Malaysia to create a Global Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Business Hub for ICT companies from around the world within the Iskandar Malaysia. It is part with the MSC Malaysia initiative of the Government of Malaysia.The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Y.A.B. Dato’ Seri Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi on 28 June 2006 approved MSC Malaysia Cybercentre Status for Menara MSC Cyberport, the first MSC Malaysia Cybercentre in Southern Malaysia and launched it on 14 August 2006.MSC Malaysia is the Malaysia’s government’s initiative for the global ICT industry. Conceptualized in 1996. Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) is the custodian of the MSC Malaysia initiative.MSC Malaysia was originally centred in Cyberjaya, near the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. In June 2004, the MSC Malaysia Implementation Council Meeting outlined the National Roll-out of the MSC Malaysia to other states in Malaysia. Johor is one of the states identified for this roll-out.
- suicide cliff
- in marpi, saipan
- 飛鵝山「自殺崖」
- 單是本周初就發生一宗行山婦失足墮崖的致命意外；惟近日網上流傳一段片，是一對外籍男女日前於上述山崖上大玩徒手倒立「疊羅漢」，畫面觸目驚心，惹來網民熱議。大部分均批評涉事男女的行為罔顧安全，如同玩命https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20200501/00176_049.html
- shekou
- 遼寧省政府與招商局集團昨日在北京簽署《遼寧省港口合作項目增資協議》和《遼寧港口合作工作備忘錄》。國務院國資委主任肖亞慶、遼寧省省長唐一軍、交通運輸部副部長何建中、招商局集團董事長李建紅共同出席。此次簽約，標誌着遼寧省港口資源整合、一體化運作取得實質性進展。根據協議，招商局集團將通過增資方式入股遼寧東北亞港航發展有限公司，取得49.9%的股權，並將與遼寧省地方政府在港口運營、物流運輸、園區開發、金融服務等多個領域開展深入合作，將「前港─中區─後城」的成功模式在大連太平灣港區落地，建設東北亞的「新蛇口」。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20181104/PDF/a11_screen.pdf
- The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol Building, is the home of the United States Congress, and the seat of the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. The original building was completed in 1800 and was subsequently expanded, particularly with the addition of the massive dome, and expanded chambers for the bicameral legislature, the House of Representatives in the south wing and the Senate in the north wing. Like the principal buildings of the executive and judicial branches, the Capitol is built in a distinctive neoclassical style and has a white exterior. Both its east and west elevations are formally referred to as fronts, though only the east front was intended for the reception of visitors and dignitaries. Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant was given the task of creating the city plan for the new capital city. L'Enfant chose Jenkin's Hill as the site for the "Congress House", with a "grand avenue" (now Pennsylvania Avenue, NW) connecting it with the President's House, and a public space containing a broader "grand avenue" (now the National Mall) stretching westward to the Potomac River (see: L'Enfant Plan).In reviewing L'Enfant's plan, Thomas Jefferson insisted the legislative building be called the "Capitol" rather than "Congress House". The word "Capitol" comes from Latin and is associated with the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Capitoline Hill, one of the seven hills of Rome. The connection between the two is not, however, crystal clear.[11] In addition to coming up with a city plan, L'Enfant had been tasked with designing the Capitol and President's House; however, he was dismissed in February 1792 over disagreements with President George Washington and the commissioners, and there were no plans at that point for the Capitol.A late entry by amateur architect William Thornton was submitted on January 31, 1793, to much praise for its "Grandeur, Simplicity, and Beauty" by Washington, along with praise from Thomas Jefferson. Thornton was inspired by the east front of the Louvre, as well as the Paris Pantheon for the center portion of the design.The original design by Thornton was later modified by the famous British-American architects Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Sr., and then Charles Bulfinch. The current cast-iron dome and the House's new southern extension and Senate new northern wing were designed by Thomas U. Walter and August Schoenborn, a German immigrant, in the 1850s, and were completed under the supervision of Edward Clark.
- El Capitolio, or National Capitol Building in Havana, Cuba, was the organization of government in Cuba until after the Cuban Revolution in 1959, and is now home to the Cuban Academy of Sciences. "El Capitolio" has a size of 681 by 300 ft. Its design is compared to that of the United States Capitol, but is not a replica of it.[1] Completed in 1929, it was the tallest building in Havana until the 1950s and houses the world's third largest indoor statue. The project began on April 1926, during the Gerardo Machado administration. Construction was overseen by the U.S. firm of Purdy and Henderson. Prior to the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the Cuban Congress was housed in the building. When the Congress was abolished and disbanded following the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the building lost its purpose as the House of the People. Later it ended up as the headquarters of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment. As of 2013, the Government of Cuba is restoring the building for use once again as the home of Cuba's National Assembly.
- Roman Colosseum/coliseum
- The Verona Arena (Italian: Arena di Verona [aˈrɛːna di veˈroːna; aˈreːna]) is a Roman amphitheatre in Piazza Bra in Verona, Italy built in the first century. It is still in use today and is internationally famous for the large-scale opera performances given there.
- cristo rey statue
- Świebodzin, western Poland
- lisbon
- cali, colombia
- rio de janeiro
- list of similar statues round the world in rio's wiki page
- A notable feature in Île aux Cygnes ( (French pronunciation: [il o siɲ]; English: Isle of the Swans) is a small artificial island on the river Seine in Paris, France) is a quarter-scale replica of Liberty Enlightening the World, commonly known as the Statue of Liberty, 22 metres tall and facing west in the direction of its larger sibling in New York City. Inaugurated by President Marie François Sadi Carnot on 4 July 1889, nearly three years after its US counterpart, it was donated to the city by the Parisian expatriots in the United States and Canada to mark the centennial of the French Revolution.The statue originally faced east, toward the Eiffel Tower, but it was turned west in 1937 for the world's fair hosted in Paris that year. At its base is a commemorative plaque, and the tablet in its left hand bears the inscription IV Juillet 1776 = XIV Juillet 1789, recognizing the American Independence Day and the French Bastille Day.
- In 1998 to celebrate the "Year of France in Japan", the 14-ton statue was transported to Japan and displayed on Odaiba, an artificial island in Tokyo Bay, before returning to Paris the following year.
- A smaller replica is in the Musée d'Orsay and another displayed at the Musée des Arts et Métiers.
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathonkeats/2019/10/21/liberty/ Three years before the Statue of Liberty was erected in New York Harbor, a similar monument, representing equivalent values, was installed at the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence. They were designed by different sculptors, and there’s no evidence that the Frenchman Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi ever met the Italian Pio Fedi, let alone that Bartholdi was copying Fedi’s design. But as a new exhibition at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration suggests, the statues are deeply related, and the significance of each monument is enhanced by the other statue’s presence.
- https://www.thejournal.ie/millennium-tower-dublin-state-papers-1989-4935179-Dec2019/ Dublin’s answer to the Eiffel Tower was expected to attract more than 500,000 visitors every year. But in spite of its lofty ambitions, the £40m project never got off the ground. Details of the proposal by the now-dissolved company Renaissance Developments were contained in an application for European Commission structural funds in 1989, released this week under the 30-year State Papers rule. According to the application, the 184m Millennium Tower in Dublin’s IFSC was to be a “major central tourist attraction” intended to act as a focal point for visitors to the city.According to the company’s application, plans for the tower were originally submitted to Custom House Docks Development Authority (CHDDA) as part of the development of what is now the IFSC in the late 1980s.Initially, Renaissance Developments proposed building the tower at Custom House Docks.But by the time the company was applying to the EC for £17m in funding in 1989, it claimed it had held discussions to build at a number of (unspecified) locations on both sides of the river between the Custom House and the East Link Toll Bridge.However, it said its preference was for a development near the IFSC, with the 22-acre Gas Company site, formerly at at the corner of Sir John Rogerson’s Quay and Cardiff Lane, singled out.Ultimately, that vision was too pie in the sky. Renaissance Developments was subsequently dissolved in 1992.
- "international committee/advisors"
- The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is a United States agency within the Executive Office of the President established in 1946, which advises the President of the United Stateson economic policy. The CEA provides much of the objective empirical research for the White House and prepares the annual Economic Report of the President.
- The Truman administration established the Council of Economic Advisers via the Employment Act of 1946, to provide presidents with objective economic analysis and advice on the development and implementation of a wide range of domestic and international economic policy issues.
- http://www.hkcd.com.hk/pdf/201709/0908/HZ18908CHAA.pdf jinan mayoral international economic commission
- 上海市市長國際企業家諮詢會議http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/09/18/a20-0918.pdf
- similar advisory structure in guangdong http://hk.hkcd.com/pdf/201709/0921/HZ18921CHBB.pdf
- chongqing version hkcd 27sep17 a20
- A Business Leaders' Advisory Council for the Hainan Provincial People's Government was inaugurated in Sanya over the weekend with the aim of soliciting advice and suggestions that will further advance the opening-up of the tropical island and the development of the China (Hainan) Pilot Free Trade Zone established by the central government in April. Seated on the first advisory council are five well-known Chinese entrepreneurs and economists: Jack Ma, founder and chairman of Alibaba, Pony Ma, chairman and CEO of Tencent, Ning Gaoning, chairman of Sinochem, Zhou Qiren, a professor and economist at Peking University's National School of Development, and Liang Jianzhang, co-founder and chairman of online travel agency Ctrip.The advisory council will grow and include more Chinese and foreign entrepreneurs, said Ni Qiang, secretary-general of the provincial government. They will meet in Hainan every December to provide advice and suggestions to help make the government decisionmaking more forward looking and scientific.http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201901/14/WS5c3bc57fa3106c65c34e4225.html
- hket 20sep19 a27 陝西高级经济顾问委员会
- The Raisina Dialogue is a multilateral conference held annually in New Delhi. Since its inception in 2016, the conference has emerged as India’s flagship conference on geopolitics and geo-economics. The conference is hosted by the Observer Research Foundation, an independent think tank, in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs of India.The conference is structured as a multi-stakeholder, cross-sectoral discussion, involving a variety of global policymakers including heads of state, cabinet ministers and local government officials. In addition, the Dialogue also welcomes major private sector executives, as well as members of the media and academia. It is designed on the lines of Singapore's Shangri-La Dialogue.The name "Raisina Dialogue" comes from Raisina Hill, an elevation in New Delhi, seat of the Government of India, as well as the Presidential Palace of India, Rashtrapati Bhavan.
- 有消息指美國眾議院將提出一項新法案，要求國務院將因政治理念遭迫害的香港前線示威者及其家屬等，列為「第二類優先難民」，簡化他們申請難民資格的程序。據悉，該名為《Hong Kong Airlift Act》的法案將於日內由八名跨黨派眾議員，包括共和黨柯蒂斯（John Curtis）和民主黨索茲（Tom Suozzi）等提出。駐華盛頓港人組織HKDC指，有關法案以曾參與反修例示威、或抗議中國政府侵犯香港高度自治相關示威的社會領袖及示威者為對象，亦包括急救人員、記者、義務律師，及被正式起訴及拘留或定罪的抗爭者。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20200618/00176_035.html
- beirut 1862
- cairo 1919
- xx bond
- A samurai bond is a yen-denominated bond issued in Tokyo by non-Japanese companies, and is subject to Japanese regulations. Samurai Bond Market was opened in 1970 when the Japanese Ministry of Finance authorized supranational and highly rated foreign government entities to issue Samurai bonds within certain size and maturity restrictions.[4] The market opened due to growing Japanese foreign currency reserves during late 60’s. The exchange rate of the yen at that time was fixed at 360 yen per US dollar. It was revalued to 308 yen in 1971 and moved to a floating rate system in February 1973.[5] To discourage foreign exchange pressure, the Japanese governmentdecided to open capital market allowing foreign entities to issue yen-denominated bonds. However, at the time the market opened, only governmental entities could issue bonds. The Blue chip corporations were allowed to issue Samurai bond later in 1978. The Asian Development Bank issued the first Samurai bond in November 1970.
- http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/19/c_137265039.htm The Philippines is planning to issue about 1 billion U.S. dollars worth of Samurai bonds this year, the country's finance department said in a statement released in Manila on Tuesday.
- dim sum bond
- tuna bond
- 「犀牛債券」（Rhino Impact Bonds，簡稱RIB）https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/finance/20190724/00202_030.html
- selling town
- 新西蘭北島一個小鎮近日放售，買家只需付出一千一百六十萬紐元（約五千七百萬港元），就可擁有整個以美國西部牛仔電影為藍本建設的小鎮，以及投資移民居留權。蘇富比國際房地產公司指，不少香港及美國人士都有意購買。放售小鎮「Mellonsfolly Ranch」建於二○○六年，位於中部高原陶馬魯努伊和奧阿庫尼之間，佔地三百六十四公頃。鎮內十間主題建築物仿照一八六○年代的美國懷俄明州邊境小鎮設計https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200702/00180_030.html
- dubai
- miami
- In partnership with China Building Techniques Group Co Ltd (CBTGC) and US architectural firm AC Martin, with its history of over 110 years, Arts District Development LLC (ADD) is planning a permanent new home. Located in the heart of rapidly evolving arts district in downtown Los Angeles, the unique 12-story mixed-use development project will contain 129 artist condominiums, 113-room art hotel and 50,000-square-foot (4,646 square meters) commercial space for retails and restaurants. The project offers 11 percent low income affordable units for artists to live and work. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201804/11/WS5acdd311a3105cdcf6517a32.html
- 9月24日，由南昌市人民政府、中国音协管乐学会共同主办的南昌国际军乐节在南昌启幕。来自五大洲的11支国外军乐团、5支内地各军种和武警部队的乐团、6支江西本地乐团参加是次盛会，共计2500人。据悉，本届军乐节的主题是“军乐八一颂，响亮英雄城”，举办日期为9月24日至29日。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170925/PDF/a22_screen.pdf
- Two state-of-the-art Chinese warships sailed up the Thames yesterday as part of a goodwill tour of European ports. The type 54A frigates Huanggang and Yangzhou cost a massive £180million each and arrived at West India Dock an hour apart on Monday.The hulking, 135-metre ships had earlier caused a stir when seen sailing past Canary Wharf. This isn't the first time Chinese ships have been in English waters. In July, the Royal Navy escorted a flotilla of warships through the English Channel to shadow three ships as they made their way to the Baltic Sea. HMS Richmond was scrambled to the English Channel to shadow three ships as they made their way for the Baltic Sea. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4943446/Chinese-warships-turn-heads-sail-Thames.html
- madame tussaud
- museo de cera - madrid, la Ciudad de México, barcelona
- Madurodam (Dutch pronunciation: [maːdyroːdɑm]) is a miniature park and tourist attraction in the Scheveningen district of The Hague in the Netherlands. It is home to a range of 1:25 scale model replicas of famous Dutch landmarks, historical cities and large developments. The park was opened in 1952 and has since been visited by tens of millions of visitors. The entirety of net proceeds from the park go towards various charities in the Netherlands.
- Madurodam was named after George Maduro, a Jewish law student from Curaçao who fought the Nazi occupation forces as a member of the Dutch resistance and died at Dachau concentration camp in 1945. In 1946, Maduro was posthumously awarded the Medal of Knight Fourth class of the Military Order of William, the highest and oldest military decoration in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, for the valor he had demonstrated in the Battle of the Netherlands against German troops.
- 世界八大奇迹馆坐落在陕西临潼骊山脚下。1995年建成并对游人开放。
- Minimundus is a miniature park in Klagenfurt in Carinthia, Austria. It displays over 150 miniature models of architecture from around the world, built at a ratio of 1:25.Since its opening in 1958, more than 15 million visitors have visited the 26,000 square meters park. The proceeds benefit the children's help organization Rettet das Kind("Save the Child"), which owns the park.
- Storybook Land Canal Boats is an attraction located at the Disneyland and Disneyland Park (Paris) theme parks. Passengers embark on a leisurely paced outdoor boat ride through a winding canal featuring settings from Disney animated films recreated in miniature. The Disneyland version was one of the original attractions when the park opened on July 17, 1955, although the miniature buildings and landscaping were not added until the following year. The version in Disneyland Paris is named Le Pays des Contes de Fées (meaning "The Land of Fairy Tales" in French) and opened in the spring of 1994.
- swiss miniature, melide, opened in 1959
- Catalunya en Miniatura (Catalan pronunciation: [kətəˈɫuɲə əm miniəˈtuɾə], in English "Catalonia in miniature") is miniature park inaugurated in 1983 in Torrelles de Llobregat, 17 km from Barcelona. With 60.000 square meters, 35.000 of them devoted to the scale models, it is one of the largest miniature parks in the world,[1] and the largest of the 14 miniature building exhibitions present in Europe.[2] It displays 147 models of palaces, churches, bridges and other buildings from Catalonia and Mallorca and it includes all the major works by the renowned architect Antoni Gaudí.
- Mini-Europe is a miniature park located in Bruparck at the foot of the Atomium in Brussels, Belgium. Mini-Europe has reproductions of monuments in the European Union on show, at a scale of 1:25. Opened in 1989
- window of the world, shenzhen, opened in 1993
- In 1997 a theme park called Tivoli (after the park of the same name in Copenhagen) opened near Kurashiki Station. After ten years of operation it was closed in 2008, with a massive debt.
- 香港城
- 备受关注的原“重庆．香港城”地块日前被龙湖地产以总价37.6亿元（人民币，下同）竞得。据知情人士透露，2009年起，瑞安集团牵头与香港四大商会赴渝，为重庆．香港城项目选址李家沱滨江地段。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20180205/PDF/a18_screen.pdf
- ashgabat, turkmenistan
- manzhouli, hulunbuir, inner mongolia
- times square
- Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. It stretches from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. Brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements, Times Square is sometimes referred to as "The Crossroads of the World",[2] "The Center of the Universe", "the heart of The Great White Way", and the "heart of the world".[7] One of the world's busiest pedestrian areas,[8] it is also the hub of the Broadway Theater District and a major center of the world's entertainment industry.Formerly known as Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected Times Building – now One Times Square – the site of the annual New Year's Eve ball dropwhich began on December 31, 1907.The southern triangle of Times Square has no specific name,[18] but the northernmost of the two triangles is called Father Duffy Square. It was dedicated in 1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York City's U.S. 69th Infantry Regiment and is the site of a memorial to him, along with a statue of George M. Cohan,[19] as well as the TKTS reduced-price ticket booth run by the Theatre Development Fund. Before and after the American Revolution, the area belonged to John Morin Scott, a general of the New York militia, in which he served under George Washington. Scott's manor house was at what is currently 43rd Street, surrounded by countryside used for farming and breeding horses. In the first half of the 19th century, it became one of the prized possessions of John Jacob Astor, who made a second fortune selling off lots to hotels and other real estate concerns as the city rapidly spread uptown.
- As more profitable commerce and industrialization of lower Manhattan pushed homes, theaters, and prostitution northward from the Tenderloin District, Long Acre Square became nicknamed the Thieves Lair for its rollicking reputation as a low entertainment district. The first theater on the square, the Olympia, was built by cigar manufacturer and impresarioOscar Hammerstein I. "By the early 1890s this once sparsely settled stretch of Broadway was ablaze with electric light and thronged by crowds of middle- and upper-class theatre, restaurant and cafe patrons."
- In 1904, New York Times publisher Adolph S. Ochs moved the newspaper's operations to a new skyscraper on 42nd Street at Longacre Square, on the site of the former Pabst Hotel, which had existed on the site for less than a decade since it opened in November 1899.[28]Ochs persuaded Mayor George B. McClellan, Jr. to construct a subway station there, and the area was renamed "Times Square" on April 8, 1904.
- From the 1960s to the early 1990s, the seediness of the area, especially due to its go-go bars, sex shops, peep shows and adult theaters, became an infamous symbol of the city's decline.
- In the 1980s, a commercial building boom began in the western parts of Midtown as part of a long-term development plan developed under Mayors Ed Koch and David Dinkins.
- In 1990, the State of New York took possession of six of the nine historic theatres on 42nd Street, and the New 42nd Street non-profit organization was appointed to oversee their restoration and maintenance. The theatres underwent renovation for Broadway shows, conversion for commercial purposes, or demolition. In 1992, the Times Square Alliance (formerly the Times Square Business Improvement District, or "BID" for short), a coalition of city government and local businesses dedicated to improving the quality of commerce and cleanliness in the district, started operations in the area.
- 萬象城
- 深圳万象城于2004年12月9日正式开业。万象城采取“主力店+次主力店+专门店”的门店组合形式。4家主力店包括了第一次进入内地的RéEL时尚生活百货、华润万家新业态Olé超级市场、深圳最大的电影城——12厅橙天嘉禾影城、奥运标准的“冰纷万象”滑冰场；次主力店有ESPRIT、NO·VO、I·T、Sport100、王子饭店、AZONA、顺电、Deli City美乐汇等；此外，近300个国内外知名品牌专门店中有1/3品牌是首次进入内地或者深圳市场。“冰纷万象”真冰滑冰场在2005年1月开张，是亚洲最大的商业用途滑冰场。
- 上海萬象城項目地處閔行區虹橋板塊，總體量為53萬平方米，包括24萬平方米萬象城購物中心、14萬平方米超A級寫字樓、3萬平方米酒店和上海首家地鐵博物館。華潤置地表示，上海萬象城開業當天就創下客流18萬人次，店舖開業率92%的紀錄，亦是華潤置地2017年的開業項目新高。
- mall of america
- Westfield Mall of Scandinavia is a shopping mall located in Solna in Stockholm, Sweden. It was inaugurated on November 12, 2015, and is the second largest mall in the Nordic countries with 224 stores, many of them with double-height storefronts up to 8 m (26 ft) tall. In 2019, the mall was bought by Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield. The mall changed its name from Mall of Scandinavia to Westfield Mall of Scandinavia on September 28, 2019.
- mall of oman https://www.arabianbusiness.com/retail/440751-mall-of-oman-on-track-to-open-in-early-2021
- millennium buildings
- 301 Mission Street is a development in the South of Market district of downtown San Francisco. 301 Mission includes two buildings: a 12-story tower located on the northeast of the property,[4][1] and Millennium Tower, a 58-story,[7][5][8] 645-foot-tall (197 m) condominium skyscraper.
- Sinking tower was reported in 60 minutes
- Millennium Tower is a 60-story, 684 feet (208 m) residential skyscraper in Boston, Massachusetts.[6] Upon completion, the luxury high-rise was named the third tallest building in Boston, built at the site of the former flagship store for Filene's in Downtown Crossing. In 2012, Millennium Partners took over the task and won approval for 1.2 million square feet (110,000 m2) of commercial and residential space in two buildings.
- https://www.rbth.com/arts/326860-7-replicas-of-russian-landmarks
- The Bridge of Sighs (Italian: Ponte dei Sospiri) is a bridge located in Venice, northern Italy. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone, has windows with stone bars, passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Prison (Prigioni Nuove) to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace. It was designed by Antonio Contino (whose uncle Antonio da Ponte had designed the Rialto Bridge) and was built in 1600. The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment. The bridge's name, given by Lord Byron as a translation from the Italian "Ponte dei sospiri" in the 19th century,[1][2] comes from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells. The name "Bridge of Sighs" has since been applied by association to other bridges and around the world, as well as to other structures.
- glass bridge
- 內地近年興起「玻璃橋熱潮」，素有嶺南第一險峰、南粵小華山之稱的廣東清遠金子山，其玻璃橋及觀景台終在上周六正式完工，據指玻璃橋連接金子山最高兩大主峰通天南峰、通天北峰，玻璃下面是深不可測的懸崖絕壁，能為遊客帶來刺激體驗。另內地首座跨島高空玻璃橋亦於上周六建成，該橋位於湖南長沙石燕湖之上。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171002/00178_022.html
- http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1068818.shtml A glass bridge has opened to the public in Guimeng Scenic Area in Linyi's Yimeng Mountain,east China's Shandong province
- 位於河北石家莊平山縣、號稱「世界最長」的紅崖谷景區玻璃橋，將於今年平安夜對外開放。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20171216/00178_025.html
- 四川萬源八台山旅遊景區第五台的八台山玻璃長橋，上周六正式對外開放。該座玻璃橋懸掛於海拔一千九百八十米的獨角岩，橫跨四川和重慶交界；橋面距谷底相對高度達六十六層樓，海拔高度居全國之首，最多可同時容納八十名遊客。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180313/00178_017.html
- guizhou 朱砂古镇 glass bridge
- glass bottom suspension bridge, taihuyuan, hangzhou https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6143047/Walking-air-New-glass-bottomed-suspension-bridge-hanging-600ft-valley-China.html
- henan 焦作市孟州市虢镇
- 廣東省政府完成一九年度全省一百零八個國家A級旅遊景區的覆核工作，其中九十六個景區通過覆核，五個遭摘牌，七個被警告。省文化和旅遊廳負責人指，本次覆核主要考察景區與環境質素等方面，是否符合A級景區的評定標準，而被摘牌的分別是清遠飛來峽水利樞紐風景區、潮州東山湖溫泉度假村等兩個4A級景區，以及惠州大亞灣清泉古寺、中山石博宇宙城、梅州西岩茶鄉度假區等三個三A級景區，原因包括未設遊客中心，電話也無人接聽；景區垃圾無清理、外部交通狀況較差、旅遊氛圍不足、主體建築與環境不協調等。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191003/00178_002.html
- 美國紐約摩天大廈哈德遜廣場，將於明年在第一百層開放一個戶外觀賞的露天平台。平台啟用後將成為西半球中最高的戶外露台，為希望挑戰自己和欣賞俯瞰美景的市民和遊客，提供一個另類好去處。有膽識的訪客可通過戶外的「天際線樓梯」由第一百層走到第一○一層，另外在一百樓設有香檳酒吧提供飲品。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191026/00180_034.html
- 玻璃橋項目近年在中國內地景區如雨後春筍般出現，但事故頻生，不少遊客擔心安全問題。河北省目前已將省內三十二處玻璃橋、棧道和觀景台等設施全數停運，作安全檢查。內媒認為，事故頻生與景區開發商、政府和遊客本身均有責任。景區為加快推出玻璃設施吸引遊客，在修建時未有完善規劃，導致事故出現。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191101/00178_001.html
- 杭州淳安縣有一頭野豬上周六誤闖石林玻璃棧道，牠最初奮蹄急奔，疑因見棧道下懸空，嚇得緊貼石壁，最後更腿下發軟就地坐下，不敢再挪前半步，情狀惹笑。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191105/00178_033.html
- 漢灘江天空之橋, korea
- 在中國長壽名山佛山三水南丹山，玻璃橋經過國慶假期的試運營，景區于10月23日舉辦“紫云飛渡”6D玻璃懸索吊橋旅游推介會，正式向游客及旅游同行隆重推介。http://www.hkcd.com/content_p/2018-10/25/content_65326.html
- 湖南平江石牛寨懸崖玻璃棧道http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2020/04/30/b10-0430.pdf
- 三百山玻璃天橋, jiangxi http://hk.hkcd.com/pdf/202006/0611/HA06611CZB1_HKCD.pdf
- 遼寧本溪市虎谷峽景區的玻璃滑道，前日下午發生奪命事故，釀成至少一死多人受傷。有目擊者稱，事發時天雨地滑，疑有遊客跌倒導致人踩人。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200821/00178_013.html
- 濟南南部 山區大石崮山http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2018/05/25/a26-0525.pdf
- ningbo https://www.facebook.com/chinadaily/photos/pcb.10156362450281291/10156362448691291/
- A glass walkway has been completed in the Fuxi Mountain Scenic Area in Zhengzhou,Henan province china daily 13jun18
- yalong bay forest park, sanya
- 湖州市安吉縣一名男遊客日前遊覽靈溪山景區時，不顧自己有「畏高症」，嘗試挑戰景區的玻璃棧道https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191009/00178_022.html
- 江蘇無錫江陰市應急管理局昨日表示，多名遊客本月一日在華西世界自然公園內玩玻璃滑道時，意外衝出滑道墮落樹林。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191028/00178_003.html
- light and sound show
- at grottes de han cave complex by luc petit (brussels- based artistic director who has previously created music and light shows for disney and franco dragone) [wallonia and brussels magazine summer 2018]
- 饒宗頤
- 饒宗頤昨日在廣東東莞長安鎮為中國首家以饒宗頤命名的美術館奠基http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2017/12/21/a20-1221.pdf
- Bank (in uk)
- International school (in ghana)
- marshal hotel
- egypt (royal marshal)
- hualien
- budapest
- ferris wheel
- The Wiener Riesenrad (German for Vienna Giant Wheel[1]), or Riesenrad, is a 64.75-metre (212 ft) tall Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austria's capital Vienna. It is one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions, and symbolises the district as well as the city for many people. Constructed in 1897, it was the world's tallest extant Ferris wheelfrom 1920 until 1985.The Wiener Riesenrad was designed by the British engineers Harry Hitchins and Hubert Cecil Booth and constructed in 1897 by the English engineer Lieutenant Walter Bassett Bassett (1864-1907), Royal Navy, son of Charles Bassett (1834-1908), MP, of Watermouth Castle, Devon.[2] Its purpose was to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Franz Josef I, and it was one of the earliest Ferris wheelsever built. Bassett's Ferris wheel manufacturing business was not a commercial success, and he died in 1907 almost bankrupt. A permit for its demolition was issued in 1916, but because of a lack of funds with which to carry out the destruction, it survived.
- beijing shijingshan amusement park opened in 1986 and included a ferris wheel china daily 26sep19
- finnair sky wheel
- A Ferris wheel without center shaft is under construction in Weifang, East China's Shandong province, Nov 29, 2017. The 145-meter-tall skywheel is said to be the largest of its kind in the world. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/m/shandong/shandongculture/2017-11/30/content_35133378_2.htm
- Turn of Fortune (shi lai yun zhuan) is an unfinished centreless non-rotating Ferris wheel which began construction in Bauhinia (Zijing) park, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China, in 2009. Construction began in 2009, but completion was repeatedly delayed. In March 2013 construction stopped for six months while safety checks were carried out after authorities became concerned about reports of corrosion due to exposure to the elements. Work restarted after a safety assessment by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. It had been due to open in June 2013, but this was put back to October, and then postponed again.
- 中国铁建公司8日透露，日前与马来西亚M101实体有限公司正式签约吉隆坡M101摩天轮酒店和写字楼项目。据了解，吉隆坡M101摩天轮酒店和写字楼项目建成后，地上总高度为316米，被称为“四个第一”项目，即拥有世界第一高的空中摩天轮（矗立于高空220米）项目、世界第一高空中购物商场、亚洲第一个五星级荷里活星球酒店和马来西亚第一家保时捷设计公寓的建筑综合体。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20171209/PDF/a5_screen.pdf
- 巴基斯坦卡拉奇一個開業僅一個月的遊樂場，一個摩天輪機動遊戲於周日晚倒塌，一名八歲女童死亡、廿五人受傷。據報涉事機動遊戲由中國入口，意外發生後，遊樂場經理已逃去無蹤，當局正追緝他及調查事故起因。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180717/00180_023.html
- osaka wheel
- 全拉丁美洲最大的摩天輪「里約星摩天輪」（Rio Star Ferris wheel），上周五在巴西里約熱內盧開幕。該摩天輪高達八十八米，令乘客可輕易將全市美景盡收眼底，吸引大批民眾到場試坐。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191209/00180_038.html
- 高雄市長韓國瑜在脫口秀節目指出，有7個國家團隊遞送愛情摩天輪規畫藍圖，其中包括英國倫敦眼的團隊等，但遭到質疑。副市長葉匡時今天澄清，是有倫敦之眼總工程師參與提案。韓國瑜日前參加「博恩夜夜秀」節目，他表示，有7個國家團隊遞送出了愛情摩天輪的規畫藍圖，其中包括英國倫敦眼的團隊。消息一出，媒體展開查證並向市府經濟發展局取得資料做比對，結果發現內容不實，批評市府又在「唬爛、說大話」。葉匡時今天出席「高雄市區域觀光元年一心三線成果發展會」後接受聯訪指出，市府從來沒有講說是英國倫敦之眼的團隊建築師事務所送交提案，而是說有參與倫敦之眼的總工程師；荷蘭籍參與者是世界知名摩天輪倫敦眼的總工程師，參與在市府提案的加拿大團隊中。經發局副局長高鎮遠告訴中央社記者，截至目前已有7家業者向市府提案，其中美國及加拿大團隊同意讓相關草案內容曝光的團隊。至於被指控潛在廠商沒有倫敦之眼相關實績一事，經發局發布新聞稿指出，從未說過提案廠商就是設計倫敦之眼摩天輪的建築事務所，盼各界回歸高雄經濟發展務實面，不要陷入有心人士刻意操作的文字遊戲中。https://www.cna.com.tw/news/firstnews/201912260130.aspx
- 台灣的高雄市長韓國瑜面臨罷免危機外，他在競選市長時提出的「愛情摩天輪」政見，早前被台灣交通部旗下港務公司質疑沒有商家投資，高雄市政府和潛在投資廠商至今未提出具體計劃。高雄市經發局昨斥責港務公司發表「不負責任的發言」，反指交通部阻撓導致該項目遲遲未能動工。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200508/00178_009.html
- 由房地产巨头碧桂园首创的“SSGF工业化建造体系”，目前在全国超20个省份推广。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20171011/PDF/a15_screen.pdf
- Manneken Pis
- http://www.cna.com.tw/news/acul/201803070384-1.aspx in hakka costume
- yellow ribbon
- https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/2182515/bikini-clad-russian-girl-swims-australian-safety-and-protests January 20, 1979 Thousands of British housewives started hanging yellow dishcloths from their windows to protest against an ongoing lorry drivers’ strike that had disrupted daily supplies, including of some food items, across the country. Although the situation was bad, prime minister James Callaghan decided against declaring a state of emergency. One of the emergency measures would have involved the use of the British Army to get supplies of animal feed and other vital supplies moving.
- 世越號 光化門廣場追悼 http://jcpkochi.jp/topic/2015/150517sewol.html
- human chain
- baltic way
- pardon
- scmp 26sep19 city protests a far cry from baltic way, (lithuanian) envoy says
- 美國佛羅里達州邁阿密-戴德縣周一舉行別開生面的「豬豬赦免」儀式。縣長希門尼斯在市民見證下，向兩頭肥豬彼德拉（Petra）和佩佩（Peppa）簽發特赦令。牠們此後將入住愛心農莊，和一眾逃出被吃命運的雞、兔等禽畜一同過幸福生活。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191220/00180_031.html
- tram promotion campaign
- hk tram ding ding
- https://web-japan.org/trends/11_food/jfd201910_arakawasen.html Chin-chin Densha (ding ding trains) in Tokyo, the Toei Transportation Customer Center’s “Tokyo Sakura Tram” (Official name: Toden Arakawa Line)
- 宜蘭太平山坐蹦蹦車http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2019/10/24/a24-1024.pdf
- ich bin ein berliner
- i am taiwanese
- An escape room, also known as an "escape game", is a physical adventure game in which players solve a series of puzzles and riddles using clues, hints, and strategy to complete the objectives at hand. Players are given a set time limit to unveil the secret plot which is hidden within the rooms. Escape rooms are inspired by "escape-the-room"–style video games. This is also the likely source of their name.[1] Games are set in a variety of fictional locations, such as prison cells, dungeons, and space stations, and usually the various puzzles and riddles themselves follow the theme of the room. Escape rooms became popular in North America, Europe and East Asia in the 2010s. Permanent escape rooms in fixed locations were first opened in Asia[2] and followed later[citation needed] in Hungary, Australia, New Zealand, Russia and South America.
- Real Escape Game (REG) in Japan was developed by 35-year-old Takao Kato, of the Kyoto publishing company, SCRAP Co., in 2007. It is based in Kyoto, Japan and produces a free magazine by the same name. Beyond Japan, escape games appeared in Singapore from 2011, growing to over 50 games by 2015. Kazuya Iwata, a friend of Kato, brought Real Escape Game to San Francisco in 2012. The following year, Seattle-based Puzzle Break founded by Nate Martin became the first American-based escape room company.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Japanese games were primarily composed of logical puzzles, such as mathematical sequences or colour-coding, just like the video games that inspired them. Parapark, a Hungarian franchise that later operated in 20 locations in Europe and Australia, was founded in 2011 in Budapest.[16] The founder, Attila Gyurkovics, claims he had no information about the Japanese escape games and based the game on Mihály Csíkszentmihályi's flow theory and his job experience as personality trainer.[17] As opposed to the Japanese precursors, in the games of Parapark players mainly had to find hidden keys or reach seemingly unattainable ones in order to advance. In 2012 a Swiss physics professor created a scientific escape game for his students. The game was later offered to the public under the name of AdventureRooms and distributed as a franchise in twenty countries. The Adventure Rooms introduced scientific puzzles (e.g. hidden infrared or polarized codes) to the genre. As of September 2017, there were over 8,000 escape room venues worldwide.
- On December 24, 2016, then-U.S. President Barack Obama and his family visited Breakout Waikiki in Honolulu after being challenged on Twitter by the escape room, and successfully completed the Mission Manoa room with 12 seconds remaining.
- 希臘警方周一表示，警員於北部地區一段公路發現一架貨車的冷凍貨櫃內藏有四十一名難民，所有人生還。警方指，冷凍系統當時沒有開啟，並拘捕了來自格魯吉亞的四十歲貨車司機。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191106/00180_027.html
- 荷蘭執法部門日前在一艘駛往英國的渡輪上，發現二十五名難民藏在船上的冷凍貨櫃，國籍未知。該船需回航至荷蘭的弗拉爾丁恩港口，讓船上難民接受醫療檢查。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191123/00180_015.html
reproducing iconic situation for each generation
- https://www.quora.com/Can-history-repeat-itself
Spice route
- The spice trade refers to the trade between historical civilizations in Asia, Northeast Africa and Europe. Spices such as cinnamon, cassia, cardamom, ginger, pepper, and turmeric were known and used in antiquity for commerce in the Eastern World. These spices found their way into the Middle East before the beginning of the Christian era, where the true sources of these spices were withheld by the traders and associated with fantastic tales. Early writings and stone age carvings of neolithic age obtained indicates that India's southwest coastal port Muziris, in Kerala, had established itself as a major spice trade centre from as early as 3000 B.C, which marked the beginning of the spice trade. Kerala, referred to as the land of spices or as the "Spice Garden of India", was the place traders and explorers wanted to reach, including Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, and others.
xx rush
- tin rush
- https://www.nst.com.my/news/2017/02/212991/ipoh-town-tin-built the history of Ipoh unfolds in front of us — how a sleepy kampung became a bustling metropolis banking on the tin mining industry. The tin rush started around 1880 and lasted for 50 years until the 1930s.
- gold rush
free trade zone
- al manakha - after arriving in madinah, mohammad instructed his followers to buy a land for free trade, anyone can buy and sell there without paying any fees or taxes
economic corridor
- eastern economic corridor, thailand
pearl of orient brand
- penang
- hk
withrawal from international organisations
- germany's withdrawal from league of nations in 1933 https://www.wdl.org/en/item/11598/
monetary union
- The Latin Monetary Union (LMU) was a 19th-century attempt to unify several European currencies into a single currency that could be used in all the member states, at a time when most national currencies were still made out of gold and silver. It was established in 1865 and disbanded in 1927. Many countries minted coins according to the LMU standard even though they did not formally accede to the LMU treaty. The LMU adopted the specifications of the French gold franc, which had been introduced by Napoleon I in 1803. By treaty dated 23 December 1865,[2] France, Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland formed the Latin Monetary Union. The treaty required that all four contracting states strike freely exchangeable gold coins and silver coins according to common specifications.When the LMU was formed in 1865, silver was nearing the end of a period of high valuation compared to gold.[11] In 1873 the value of silver dropped significantly, followed by a sharp increase in silver imports in the LMU countries, particularly in France and Belgium.[12] By 1873, the decreasing value of silver made it profitable to mint silver in exchange for gold at the Union's standard rate of 15.5 ounces to 1. Indeed, in all of 1871 and 1872 the French mint had received just 5,000,000 francs of silver for conversion to coin, but in 1873 alone received 154,000,000 francs. Fearing an influx of silver coinage, the member nations of the Union agreed in Paris on January 30, 1874, to limit the free conversion of silver temporarily. By 1878, with no recovery in the silver price in sight, minting of silver coinage was suspended absolutely.[13] From 1873 onwards, the Union was on a de facto gold standard. The law still permitted payment in silver, but custom demanded and enforced payment in gold. The 5 franc silver pieces were "essentially upon the same footing as bank notes." The LMU eventually failed for a number of reasons. Some members, notably the Papal State's treasurer, Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli, began to debase their currency. This meant he minted coins with an inadequate amount of silver and then exchanged them for coins from other countries that had been minted correctly. More importantly, because new discoveries and better refining techniques increased the supply of silver, the fixed LMU exchange rate eventually overvalued silver relative to gold. German traders, in particular, were known to bring silver to LMU countries, have it minted into coinage then exchanged those for gold coins at the discounted exchange rate. These destabilizing tactics eventually forced the LMU to convert to a pure gold standard for its currency in 1878.Even though the minting of new silver coinage ceased, the existing silver coins continued in circulation, and the fluctuations in the values of gold and silver, were something of a nuisance.[clarification needed][citation needed]The political turbulence of the early twentieth century which culminated in the First World War brought the Latin Monetary Union to its final end in practice, even though it continued de jure until 1927, when it came to a formal end.
independence
- case of north cyprus
- catalonia
independence from vatican
- Maximus or Maximos[1][2] (Russian: Максим) (died 6 December 1305) was the Metropolitanof Kiev (1283–1305) who moved the see of Russian metropolitans to Vladimir-on-Kliazma. In spite of the move, the metropolitans were officially known as "Metropolitan of Kiev and Vladimir"[1][2] until the establishment of autocephaly under Jonah in 1448.
united x of y / united x y
- united kingdom
- usa
- netherlands
- united arab republic
- united states of colombia
- union of utrecht vs union of arras
- union of south africa (1910-61)
- Mexico (Spanish: México [ˈmexiko] ); Nahuatl languages: Mēxihco), officially the United Mexican States
- American Confederation of Venezuela/States of Venezuela/United States of Venezuela 1811-12
xx-yy empire/commonwealth
- The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, after 1791 the Commonwealth of Poland (1569-1795)
- Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy (1867-1918)
federation/federated states
- federated malay states
https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russian-orthodox-church-breaks-with-constantinople-in-row-over-ukraine-63196 The Russian Orthodox Church said on Monday it had decided to sever all relations with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in protest over its endorsement of Ukraine's request for an "autocephalous," or independent, church.
Speaking in Belarus after a meeting of the Russian Church's ruling body, Metropolitan Ilarion, a cleric, said the Holy Synod had been left with no choice but to sever ties with the Patriarchate in Istanbul, seat of the global spiritual leader of roughly 300 million Orthodox Christians. Ukraine last week secured approval from Constantinople to establish an independent church in what Kiev said was a vital step against Russian meddling in its affairs, but that the Russian Orthodox Church lamented as the biggest split in Christianity for a thousand years.
pan x-ism
- turkism
- arab
three kingdoms
- https://www.quora.com/Is-it-a-coincidence-that-both-the-Chinese-world-and-the-Roman-world-underwent-a-crisis-in-the-3rd-century-where-both-worlds-were-split-into-3-and-then-getting-restored-before-300-AD The collapse of the Han Dynasty in China and the near collapse of the Roman Empire were both a result of the domino effect of migrations on the Central Asian steppes. The Chinese had been trying to control the Xiongnu at their own borders for sometime. A group spun off that nomadic alliance and headed westward to become the Huns who threatened Europe. The pushed on the Turkish Avars who then pushed Germanic peoples into the territories of the Roman Empire. This caused a contraction of the entire civilized zone of Eurasia. China does not recover in the fourth century. It will not be until the Sui Dynasty in the sixth century that the Chinese Empire is restored.
- china
- korea
- japan
- The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, sometimes known as the British Civil Wars,[b] formed an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in England, Ireland and Scotland between 1639 and 1651. The English Civil War proper has become the best-known of these conflicts and included the execution of the kingdoms' monarch, Charles I, by the English parliament in 1649.
7 warring states/kingdoms
- china
- kingdom of merica - 七王国時代
divided capital of a state
- lefkosia, cyprus
moving capital
- https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3018017/indonesia-eyes-new-capital-city-ancient-chinas There are plenty of modern examples of nation states moving their capitals, including Brazil, from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia; Myanmar, from Yangon to Naypyidaw; Pakistan, from Karachi to Rawalpindi then to Islamabad. Indonesia may be next.
sisters (normally three) married to men in position (often in different political camps)
- Dugu (獨孤) was a Chinese compound surname of Xianbei/Xiongnu origin. There is still very few, in single digits, Chinese people with the surname today, mainly reside in Shanghai. There is a small Korean population (Namwon Dokgo clan) with this surname (pronounced Dokgo or Dokko (독고) in Korean) in North Korea, mainly in Ryongchon County and Uiju County near the Chinese border. During the 6th century the Dugus were a powerful aristocratic family based in northwest China. They are best remembered today by the Dugu sisters, whose marriages linked the imperial families of 3 successive dynasties — the Northern Zhou (557–581), Sui (581–618), and Tang (618–907).
- sung sisters
宪章charter
- people's charter drafted by william lovett in 1838
concept of nation as a company
- lenin (冷靜看世界)
five year plan
- soviet union
- The five-year plans for the development of the national economy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: Пятиле́тние пла́ны разви́тия наро́дного хозя́йства СССР, Pjatiletnije plany razvitiya narodnogo khozyaystva SSSR) consisted of a series of nationwide centralized economic plans in the Soviet Union, beginning in the late 1920s. The Soviet state planning committee Gosplan developed these plans based on the theory of the productive forces that formed part of the ideology of the Communist Party for development of the Soviet economy. Fulfilling the current plan became the watchword of Soviet bureaucracy.Several Soviet five-year plans did not take up the full period of time assigned to them: some were pronounced successfully completed earlier than expected, while others failed and were abandoned. Altogether, Gosplan launched thirteen five-year plans. The initial five-year plans aimed to achieve rapid industrialization in the Soviet Union and thus placed a major focus on heavy industry. The first five-year plan, accepted in 1928 for the period from 1929 to 1933, finished one year early. The last five-year plan, for the period from 1991 to 1995, was not completed, since the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.
- india
- From 1947 to 2017, the Indian economy was premised on the concept of planning. This was carried through the Five-Year Plans, developed, executed, and monitored by the Planning Commission (1951-2014) and the NITI Aayog (2015-2017).
- The Five-Year Plans of Vietnam are a series of economic development initiatives. The Vietnamese economy is shaped primarily by the Vietnamese Communist Party through the plenary sessions of the Central Committee and national congresses. The party plays a leading role in establishing the foundations and principles of communism, mapping strategies for economic development, setting growth targets, and launching reforms. Planning is a key characteristic of centralized, Planned economy, and one plan established for the entire country normally contains detailed economic development guidelines for all its regions. According to Vietnamese economist Vo Nhan Tri, Vietnam's post-reunification economy was in a "period of transition to socialism". The process was described as consisting of three phases. The first phase, from 1976 through 1980, incorporated the Second Five-Year Plan (1976–80)--the First Five-Year Plan (1960–65) applied to North Vietnam only. The second phase, called "socialist industrialization", was divided into two stages: from 1981 through 1990 and from 1991 through 2005. The third phase, covering the years 2006 through 2010, was to be time allotted to "perfect" the transition.
- 11th malaysia plan (2016-2020)
- Although the Republic of Indonesia under Suharto is known for its anti-communist purge,[1] his government also adopted the same method of planning, because the policy of its socialist predecessor Sukarno. This series of five-year plans in Indonesia was termed REPELITA (Rencana Pembangunan Lima Tahun); plans I to VI ran from 1969 to 1998.
- China's Five-Year Plans (中國五年計劃) are a series of social and economic development initiatives. The economy was shaped by the Communist Party of China through the plenary sessions of the Central Committee and national congresses. The party plays a leading role in establishing the foundations and principles of Chinese socialism, mapping strategies for economic development, setting growth targets, and launching reforms. First plan 1953-57.
- Suharto's government issued the Domestic Investment Law of June 1968 to allow development of a domestic capitalist class capable of motoring economic growth to supplement existing state-owned enterprises. The late 1960s and early 1970s saw emergence of domestic entrepreneurs (mostly Chinese-Indonesians) in the import-substitution light-manufacturing sector such as Astra Group and Salim Group. Flush with IGGI foreign aid and later the jump in oil exports during the 1973 oil crisis, the government began a series of large-scale intensive investment in infrastructure under a series of five-year plans (Rencana Pembangunan Lima Tahun / REPELITA):
- REPELITA I (1969–1974) focusing on agricultural improvements (Green Revolution) to ensure food security
- REPELITA II (1974–1979) focusing on infrastructure on islands outside Java and growth in primary industries
- REPELITA III (1979–1984) focusing on achieving food self-sufficiency and growth in export-oriented labour-intensive industry
- REPELITA IV (1984–1989) focusing on growth in capital-good manufacturing
- REPELITA V (1989–1994) focusing on growth in telecommunications, education, and transportation infrastructure
- REPELITA VI (1994–1998, unfinished) focusing on infrastructure to support foreign investment and free trade
+1 concept
- 2018 korean culture festival in hk - 99+1
- tvb 50+1 anniversary
- Shenzhen-based OnePlus
- The Walls of Constantinople are a series of defensive stone walls that have surrounded and protected the city of Constantinople (today Istanbul in Turkey) since its founding as the new capital of the Roman Empire by Constantine the Great. With numerous additions and modifications during their history, they were the last great fortification system of antiquity, and one of the most complex and elaborate systems ever built.
- campeche, mexico
- During the reign of the Emperor Justinian I (527–565), administrative reforms were carried out in this region: The province of Second Armenia was renamed Third Armenia (Armenia Tertia), with its territory unchanged and its capital still at Melitene.[16][17] Melitene's city walls were constructed in the 6th century by the emperors Anastasius and Justinian.
- [kuwaiti ministry of information]
mass shooting ---> tightening gun control
- The Dunblane school massacre took place at Dunblane Primary School near Stirling, Scotland, on 13 March 1996, when Thomas Hamilton shot 16 children and one teacher dead before killing himself. It remains the deadliest mass shooting in British history.Public debate about the killings centred on gun control laws, including public petitions for a ban on private ownership of handguns and an official inquiry, which produced the 1996 Cullen Report.[2] In response to this debate, two new Firearms Acts were passed, which outlawed private ownership of most handguns in Great Britain.
adoration of magi
- The ongoing confusion between the Bacchic and Christian cults during the Byzantine era is clear in this 5th century A.D. mosaic from Paphos in Cyprus, in which the infant wine-god is portrayed in a setting reminiscent of the Adoration of the Magi. Instead of the traditional maenads and satyrs, the baby Bacchus is surrounded by worshippers that include Ambrosia and Nectar, as divine food and drink, and old Tropheus the Provider (see Johnson 1989). In due time, Christianity was able to usurp several symbols of Bacchic spring's fertility with the Resurrection. http://avirtualmuseum.org/exhibits/roman_wineii/bacchic/bacchus5_paphos.html
National festival
- Japanese Festival Music, Op. 84 (1940), is a composition by Richard Strauss. The full title is Festmusik zur Feier des 2600jährigen Bestehens des Kaiserreichs Japan für großes Orchester (Japanische Festmusik). The Japanese government commissioned music from composers of six nations to mark the 2,600th anniversary of the Japanese Empire (although the historicity of the date of February 11, 660 B.C. given as the founding of the Mikado dynasty has been widely rejected by historians). Other composers writing for the festivities included:
- tianjin festival
festival
- The Festival of Lights (French: Fête des lumières) in Lyon, France expresses gratitude toward Mary, mother of Jesus around December 8th of each year. This uniquely Lyonnaise tradition dictates that every house place candles along the outsides of all the windows to produce a spectacular effect throughout the streets. The festival includes other activities based on light and usually lasts four days, with the peak of activity occurring on the 8th. The two main focal points of activity are typically the Basilica of Fourvière which is lit up in different colours, and the Place des Terreaux, which hosts a different light show each year.
- 南京另一個著名景點是 「美齡宮」 ，她 就在陵園路上，很好找。 坊間傳說 「美齡宮」 是蔣介石送給愛妻 的別墅。其實它原是蔣介石向中山陵園借地 建成的 「國民政府主席官邸」 ，位於鍾山南 麓的小紅山，故也稱 「小紅山主席官邸」 。 蔣介石、宋美齡酷愛此地，常在此下榻、休 息、會客，也被稱為 「美齡宮」 ，名字沿用 至今，是全國重點保護文物。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20190920/PDF/a29_screen.pdf
Civic protest icon
- Viola Irene Desmond (July 6, 1914 – February 7, 1965) was a Canadian Black Nova Scotianbusinesswoman who challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in 1946. She refused to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre and was convicted of a minor tax violation for the one-cent tax difference between the seat she had paid for and the seat she used. Desmond's case is one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern civil rights movement in Canada.In 2010, Desmond was granted a posthumous pardon, the first to be granted in Canada. The government of Nova Scotia also apologized for prosecuting her for tax evasion and acknowledged she was rightfully resisting racial discrimination. In 2016, the Bank of Canada announced that Desmond would be the first Canadian woman to be featured on the front of a banknote, but that honour went to Agnes Macphail, who appeared along with three men on a 2017 commemorative note marking the 150th anniversary of Confederation. In late 2018 Desmond will be the first Canadian born woman to appear alone on a $10 bill which was unveiled by Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz during a ceremony at the Halifax Central Library on March 8, 2018.[5][6] Desmond was also named a National Historic Person in 2018. Viola Desmond (née Davis) was born on July 6, 1914, one of ten children of James Albert and Gwendolin Irene (née Johnson) Davis. Viola grew up with parents who were active in the black community in Halifax, despite the fact that her mother was white and her father black, unusual for the time.
12 followers
- 12 disciples
- king arthur and knights
- paladin
stadium
- olympic park london
- timber stadium, stroud, uk
- optus stadium, perth
xx scholar
grand bookshop
- El Ateneo Grand Splendid is a bookshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Situated on Santa Fe Avenue in Barrio Norte,[2] the building was designed by architects Peró and Torres Armengol[3] for impresario Max Glücksmann (1875-1946), and opened as a theatre called Teatro Gran Splendid in May 1919.[4] The ecleticist building features ceiling frescoes painted by the Italian artist Nazareno Orlandi and caryatids sculpted by Troiano Troiani,[3] whose work also graces the cornice along the Palacio de la Legislatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
boarding school
- Pesantren or Pondok Pesantren are Islamic boarding schools in Indonesia. According to one popular tradition, the pesantren education system originated from traditional Javanesepondokan; dormitories; ashram for Hindu or viharas for Buddhists to learn religious philosophies, martial arts and meditation. Institutions much like them are found across the Islamic world and are called pondok in Malaysia and Southern Thailand and madrasa Islamia (Islamic madrasa) in India and Pakistan and much of the Arabic speaking world. Pesantren aim to deepen knowledge of the Koran, particularly through the study of Arabic, traditions of exegesis, the Sayings of the Prophet, law and logic. The term pesantren derives from the root word santri or student -- pe-santri-an or the place of the santri. As social institutions, pesantren have played a major role over the centuries. They emphasise cores values of sincerity, simplicity, individual autonomy, solidarity and self-control. Young men and women are separated from their families, which contributes to a sense of individual commitment to the faith and close bonding to a teacher.
school
- 中華中學
assassin
- JFK
- The assassination of Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., former Philippine Senator, took place on Sunday, August 21, 1983 at Manila International Airport (renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor). Aquino, a longtime political opponent of then-PresidentFerdinand Marcos, had just landed in his home country after three years of self-imposed exile in the United States when he was shot in the head while being escorted from an aircraft to a vehicle that was waiting to transport him to prison. Also killed was Rolando Galman, who was later implicated in Aquino's murder. Aquino was elected to the Philippine Senate in 1967 and shortly thereafter began speaking out against Marcos's authoritarian rule. He was imprisoned on trumped up charges shortly after Marcos's 1972 declaration of martial law. In 1980, he suffered a heart attack in prison and was allowed to leave the country two months later by Marcos's wife, Imelda. He spent the next three years in exile near Boston before deciding to return to the Philippines. Aquino's assassination is credited with transforming the opposition to the Marcos regime from a small, isolated movement into a national crusade. It is also credited with thrusting Aquino's widow, Corazon Aquino, into the public spotlight and her running for president in the snap election of 1986. Though Marcos was officially declared the winner of the election, widespread allegations of fraud and illegal tampering on Marcos's behalf is credited with sparking the People Power Revolution, which resulted in Marcos fleeing the country and conceding the presidency to Corazon Aquino. Though many, including the Aquino family, maintain that Marcos ordered Aquino's assassination, this was never definitively proven. An official government investigation ordered by Marcos shortly after the assassination led to murder charges against 25 military personnel and one civilian; all were acquitted by the Sandiganbayan (special court). After Marcos was ousted, another government investigation under Corazon Aquino's administration led to a retrial and the conviction of 16 military personnel, all of whom were sentenced to life imprisonment. Since their conviction, one of the convicts was pardoned, three died in prison, and the remainder had their sentences commuted at various times; the last convicts were released from prison in 2009.
musical about life of politician
- King O'Malley is the subject of a 1970 musical play The Legend of King O'Malley by Michael Boddy and Bob Ellis.
- Hamilton
Icons
- royalty couple
- musicals
- scmp 30oct18 oneplus succeeds where huawei ; https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/29/reuters-america-update-1-chinas-oneplus-backed-by-qualcomm-and-t-mobile-launches-smartphone-in-u-s.html
- The Walls of Constantinople are a series of defensive stone walls that have surrounded and protected the city of Constantinople (today Istanbul in Turkey) since its founding as the new capital of the Roman Empire by Constantine the Great. With numerous additions and modifications during their history, they were the last great fortification system of antiquity, and one of the most complex and elaborate systems ever built.
- campeche, mexico
- During the reign of the Emperor Justinian I (527–565), administrative reforms were carried out in this region: The province of Second Armenia was renamed Third Armenia (Armenia Tertia), with its territory unchanged and its capital still at Melitene.[16][17] Melitene's city walls were constructed in the 6th century by the emperors Anastasius and Justinian.
- [kuwaiti ministry of information]
- old desert front of kuwait city - muddy wall built in 1920 to defend the city. It was demolished in 1957 after buildings increased and stretched beyond the wall
- four walls built throughout its history
- Khatt Shebib in jordan https://www.quora.com/Which-are-the-worlds-greatest-archaeological-mysteries
nobel prize
- In May 1957, seven prominent Filipinos were named to the founding board of trustees of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation, the non-profit corporation tasked with implementing the awards program. Later on, the board of trustees diversified and included prominent Asians from all over the Asian continent and outlying islands.
- shaw prize
- lui che woo prize
mass shooting ---> tightening gun control
- The Dunblane school massacre took place at Dunblane Primary School near Stirling, Scotland, on 13 March 1996, when Thomas Hamilton shot 16 children and one teacher dead before killing himself. It remains the deadliest mass shooting in British history.Public debate about the killings centred on gun control laws, including public petitions for a ban on private ownership of handguns and an official inquiry, which produced the 1996 Cullen Report.[2] In response to this debate, two new Firearms Acts were passed, which outlawed private ownership of most handguns in Great Britain.
adoration of magi
- The ongoing confusion between the Bacchic and Christian cults during the Byzantine era is clear in this 5th century A.D. mosaic from Paphos in Cyprus, in which the infant wine-god is portrayed in a setting reminiscent of the Adoration of the Magi. Instead of the traditional maenads and satyrs, the baby Bacchus is surrounded by worshippers that include Ambrosia and Nectar, as divine food and drink, and old Tropheus the Provider (see Johnson 1989). In due time, Christianity was able to usurp several symbols of Bacchic spring's fertility with the Resurrection. http://avirtualmuseum.org/exhibits/roman_wineii/bacchic/bacchus5_paphos.html
National festival
- Japanese Festival Music, Op. 84 (1940), is a composition by Richard Strauss. The full title is Festmusik zur Feier des 2600jährigen Bestehens des Kaiserreichs Japan für großes Orchester (Japanische Festmusik). The Japanese government commissioned music from composers of six nations to mark the 2,600th anniversary of the Japanese Empire (although the historicity of the date of February 11, 660 B.C. given as the founding of the Mikado dynasty has been widely rejected by historians). Other composers writing for the festivities included:
- Hisato Ohzawa who wrote his Symphony no. 3, "Symphony of the Founding of Japan"
- Jacques Ibert who wrote an Ouverture de fête "pour célébrer le 26e centenaire de la fondation de l'empire Nippon"
- Ildebrando Pizzetti who wrote a Symphony "In Celebrazione dell XXVIo Centenario della Fondazione dell'Impero Giapponese"
- Sándor Veress who wrote his first symphony, "Hungarian Greetings on the 2600th Anniversary of the Japanese Dynasty"
- Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem was also commissioned in this process, but was ultimately rejected by the Japanese foreign ministry as an insult.
Japan’s request for a composition from an American composer was turned down due to the deterioration of relations between the countries. Joseph Goebbels assigned the Japanese commission to Germany's most prominent composer, Richard Strauss.
- The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition and fair that reached millions of visitors throughout the United Kingdom in the summer of 1951. Labour cabinet member Herbert Morrison was the prime mover; in 1947 he started with the original plan to celebrate the centennial of the Great Exhibition of 1851.[2] However it was not to be another World Fair, for international themes were absent, as was the British Commonwealth. Instead the 1951 festival focused entirely on Britain and its achievements; it was funded chiefly by the government, with a budget of £12 million. The Labour government was losing support and so the implicit goal of the festival was to give the people a feeling of successful recovery from the war's devastation [3], as well as promoting British science, technology, industrial design, architecture and the arts. The Festival's centrepiece was in London on the South Bank of the Thames. There were events in Poplar (Architecture), Battersea (The Festival Pleasure Gardens), South Kensington (Science) and Glasgow (Industrial Power). Festival celebrations took place in Cardiff, Stratford-upon-Avon, Bath, Perth, Bournemouth, York, Aldeburgh, Inverness, Cheltenham, Oxford, Norwich, Canterbury and elsewhere[4] and there were touring exhibitions by land and sea.- tianjin festival
festival
- The Festival of Lights (French: Fête des lumières) in Lyon, France expresses gratitude toward Mary, mother of Jesus around December 8th of each year. This uniquely Lyonnaise tradition dictates that every house place candles along the outsides of all the windows to produce a spectacular effect throughout the streets. The festival includes other activities based on light and usually lasts four days, with the peak of activity occurring on the 8th. The two main focal points of activity are typically the Basilica of Fourvière which is lit up in different colours, and the Place des Terreaux, which hosts a different light show each year.
- hk edition in 2017
- 俄羅斯首都莫斯科上周五起一連五日舉行年度國際光影節。來自世界各地的燈光設計師和視聽藝術專家把當地建築布置得煥然一新。除了在知名建築正面投射彩色片段投影，亦在街道安裝連串燈光，上演多媒體燈光騷，並採用火燄、激光和禮炮等。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190922/00180_037.html
- 湖南汨羅市長樂鎮上周四舉行抬閣表演（類似香港的飄色巡遊），一名年紀小小的表演者因抵擋不住睡意，直接「高高在上」睡着，旁人各種挑逗都叫他不醒，令人忍俊不禁。http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20180305/00178_029.html
- 南京另一個著名景點是 「美齡宮」 ，她 就在陵園路上，很好找。 坊間傳說 「美齡宮」 是蔣介石送給愛妻 的別墅。其實它原是蔣介石向中山陵園借地 建成的 「國民政府主席官邸」 ，位於鍾山南 麓的小紅山，故也稱 「小紅山主席官邸」 。 蔣介石、宋美齡酷愛此地，常在此下榻、休 息、會客，也被稱為 「美齡宮」 ，名字沿用 至今，是全國重點保護文物。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20190920/PDF/a29_screen.pdf
Civic protest icon
- Viola Irene Desmond (July 6, 1914 – February 7, 1965) was a Canadian Black Nova Scotianbusinesswoman who challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in 1946. She refused to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre and was convicted of a minor tax violation for the one-cent tax difference between the seat she had paid for and the seat she used. Desmond's case is one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern civil rights movement in Canada.In 2010, Desmond was granted a posthumous pardon, the first to be granted in Canada. The government of Nova Scotia also apologized for prosecuting her for tax evasion and acknowledged she was rightfully resisting racial discrimination. In 2016, the Bank of Canada announced that Desmond would be the first Canadian woman to be featured on the front of a banknote, but that honour went to Agnes Macphail, who appeared along with three men on a 2017 commemorative note marking the 150th anniversary of Confederation. In late 2018 Desmond will be the first Canadian born woman to appear alone on a $10 bill which was unveiled by Finance Minister Bill Morneau and Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz during a ceremony at the Halifax Central Library on March 8, 2018.[5][6] Desmond was also named a National Historic Person in 2018. Viola Desmond (née Davis) was born on July 6, 1914, one of ten children of James Albert and Gwendolin Irene (née Johnson) Davis. Viola grew up with parents who were active in the black community in Halifax, despite the fact that her mother was white and her father black, unusual for the time.
12 followers
- 12 disciples
- king arthur and knights
- paladin
stadium
- olympic park london
- timber stadium, stroud, uk
- optus stadium, perth
xx scholar
- Schwarzman Scholars (Chinese: 苏世民学者; Pinyin: Sūshìmín Xuézhě), is an international scholarship program founded by American financier Stephen A. Schwarzman, co-founder and chairman of the asset management firm Blackstone Group and Chair of President Donald Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum.[1][2] The program launched in June 2016, upon the completion of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University (THU), located in Beijing, China.[3][4] The college was designed by Robert A.M. Stern, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture and hosts up to 200 scholars annually from the U.S., China and other countries around the world. Scholars study for a one-year master's degree at Tsinghua University. Modeled on the Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University and the classical Chinese academies known as Shūyuàn (Schwarzman College is called Sūshìmín Shūyuàn in Chinese, translated directly as Schwarzman Academy), Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua University will compete with similar international scholarship programs around the world.
grand bookshop
- El Ateneo Grand Splendid is a bookshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Situated on Santa Fe Avenue in Barrio Norte,[2] the building was designed by architects Peró and Torres Armengol[3] for impresario Max Glücksmann (1875-1946), and opened as a theatre called Teatro Gran Splendid in May 1919.[4] The ecleticist building features ceiling frescoes painted by the Italian artist Nazareno Orlandi and caryatids sculpted by Troiano Troiani,[3] whose work also graces the cornice along the Palacio de la Legislatura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
boarding school
- Pesantren or Pondok Pesantren are Islamic boarding schools in Indonesia. According to one popular tradition, the pesantren education system originated from traditional Javanesepondokan; dormitories; ashram for Hindu or viharas for Buddhists to learn religious philosophies, martial arts and meditation. Institutions much like them are found across the Islamic world and are called pondok in Malaysia and Southern Thailand and madrasa Islamia (Islamic madrasa) in India and Pakistan and much of the Arabic speaking world. Pesantren aim to deepen knowledge of the Koran, particularly through the study of Arabic, traditions of exegesis, the Sayings of the Prophet, law and logic. The term pesantren derives from the root word santri or student -- pe-santri-an or the place of the santri. As social institutions, pesantren have played a major role over the centuries. They emphasise cores values of sincerity, simplicity, individual autonomy, solidarity and self-control. Young men and women are separated from their families, which contributes to a sense of individual commitment to the faith and close bonding to a teacher.
school
- 中華中學
- The Chung Wah Middle School (中華中學) was a leftist school located at 1 Chico Terrace, Mid-Levels, Hong Kong. It opened in 1926 and was shut down by the Hong Kong Government for its involvement in the 1967 riots.The school was founded by Wong Lan-koon, a grandfather of Elsie Leung.In late 1968 it was reported in the South China Morning Post that all former students of Chung Wah Middle School had transferred to Hon Wah Middle School.
- 新加坡中华中学（Zhonghua Secondary School)始建于1911年，由孙中山先生提议倡办。当时称为中华女中，只招收女生。20世纪70年代改为混校。
- 南京市中华中学始建于1899年，是英籍加拿大人马林（原名威廉姆·爱德华·麦克林）创办的，校名“基督中学”，后更名为“育群中学”。1951年学校与南京市立女中合并称“南京市第一女子中学”。1968年改名为“南京市东方红中学”，1983年定名为“南京市中华中学”。
- 印尼jakarta中華中學
- 印尼泗水中華中學
- 宿務中華中學http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20181212/PDF/b14_screen.pdf
assassin
- JFK
- The assassination of Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., former Philippine Senator, took place on Sunday, August 21, 1983 at Manila International Airport (renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor). Aquino, a longtime political opponent of then-PresidentFerdinand Marcos, had just landed in his home country after three years of self-imposed exile in the United States when he was shot in the head while being escorted from an aircraft to a vehicle that was waiting to transport him to prison. Also killed was Rolando Galman, who was later implicated in Aquino's murder. Aquino was elected to the Philippine Senate in 1967 and shortly thereafter began speaking out against Marcos's authoritarian rule. He was imprisoned on trumped up charges shortly after Marcos's 1972 declaration of martial law. In 1980, he suffered a heart attack in prison and was allowed to leave the country two months later by Marcos's wife, Imelda. He spent the next three years in exile near Boston before deciding to return to the Philippines. Aquino's assassination is credited with transforming the opposition to the Marcos regime from a small, isolated movement into a national crusade. It is also credited with thrusting Aquino's widow, Corazon Aquino, into the public spotlight and her running for president in the snap election of 1986. Though Marcos was officially declared the winner of the election, widespread allegations of fraud and illegal tampering on Marcos's behalf is credited with sparking the People Power Revolution, which resulted in Marcos fleeing the country and conceding the presidency to Corazon Aquino. Though many, including the Aquino family, maintain that Marcos ordered Aquino's assassination, this was never definitively proven. An official government investigation ordered by Marcos shortly after the assassination led to murder charges against 25 military personnel and one civilian; all were acquitted by the Sandiganbayan (special court). After Marcos was ousted, another government investigation under Corazon Aquino's administration led to a retrial and the conviction of 16 military personnel, all of whom were sentenced to life imprisonment. Since their conviction, one of the convicts was pardoned, three died in prison, and the remainder had their sentences commuted at various times; the last convicts were released from prison in 2009.
- https://hk.lifestyle.appledaily.com/lifestyle/columnist/%E9%99%B6%E5%82%91/daily/article/20171030/20198234
musical about life of politician
- King O'Malley is the subject of a 1970 musical play The Legend of King O'Malley by Michael Boddy and Bob Ellis.
- Hamilton
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- william of orange and mary
- victoria & albert
- Albert VII (German: Albrecht VII) (13 November 1559 – 13 July 1621) was the ruling Archduke of Austria for a few months in 1619 and, jointly with his wife, Isabella Clara Eugenia, sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1598 and 1621. Prior to this, he had been a cardinal, archbishop of Toledo, viceroy of Portugal and Governor General of the Habsburg Netherlands.
- musicals
- composers
- Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (18 November 1786 – 30 April 1855) was an English composer. He is most famous for the songs "Home! Sweet Home!" and "Lo! Here the Gentle Lark."
- Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) and Sir William Schwenck Gilbert[n 1] (18 November 1836 – 29 May 1911)
- andrew lloyd webber
- performers
- Lavinia fenton
- Elaine page
moving houses without dismantling them
- Sarah brightman
- people in chiloe island, chile (島嶼情懷)
Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov was a pair of six-game chess matches between world chess champion Garry Kasparov and an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue. The first match was played in Philadelphia in 1996 and won by Kasparov. The second was played in New York City in 1997 and won by Deep Blue. The 1997 match was the first defeat of a reigning world chess champion to a computer under tournament conditions.
Martha Argerich gave her debut concert at the age of 8, playing a concerto by Mozart. Argerich rose to international prominence when she won the seventh International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1965, at age 24. Argerich was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her paternal ancestors were Catalans based in Buenos Aires since the 18th century. Her maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire, who settled in Colonia Villa Clara in the Entre Ríos province—one of the colonies established by Baron de Hirsch and the Jewish Colonization Association.
- note- Argerich has been married three times. Her first marriage, to composer-conductor Robert Chen (Chinese: 陈 亮声; pinyin: Chén Liàngshēng), and with whom she had a daughter, violinist Lyda Chen-Argerich, ended in 1964.
- Đặng Thái Sơn (born July 2, 1958 in Hanoi, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-Canadian classical pianist. He was the Gold Medalist of the Tenth International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland in 1980, and became the first pianist from Asia to achieve this prize.Dang began studying the piano in Hanoi with his mother, Madame Thai Thi Lien, then a professor at the Vietnam National Academy of Music. He was discovered by a Russian pianist, Isaac Katz, on a visit to Vietnam in 1974. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory in Russia. In Moscow, he studied with Vladimir Natanson, a pupil of Samuil Feinberg, and subsequently with Dmitri Bashkirov.
- [vantage sept19 vol 5 no 1] HIs grandfather thai van lan was one of the first vietnamese to study electrical engineering at the university of grenoble in france. Lan's daughter thai thi lang became the first vietnamese to be accepted into the conservatoire de paris, studying with george delausnay and yves nat.
- china daily 20sep18 forty years on column - on 20sep1994 zheng xiaofeng performed a piece by chopin at first china international piano competition in beijing. In 2000, Li yundi won first prize and a special prize at fryderick chopin society in warsaw.
Bay area development
- 灣區經濟是世界經濟版圖的新亮點，以東京、紐約、舊金山三大灣區為代表，灣區經濟帶既是一個國家重要的經濟增長極，又是技術變革的領頭羊。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2018/04/09/a03-0409.pdf
- new york
- 纽约湾区合作机制探究（上）http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20180531/PDF/a13_screen.pdf, 纽约湾区合作机制探究（下）http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20180601/PDF/a13_screen.pdf
- The first reclaimed land in the Tokyo Bay area was built in the late 16th century. For approximately 400 years after that, the reclaimed area kept expanding, and new neighborhoods were built on it. Today, Odaiba and Toyosu are about to become an important hub for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, as they will host some of the main sports venues and the Olympic village. The vibrant and energetic spirit of the transformation taking place here is part of the appeal of Odaiba and Toyosu.https://web-japan.org/niponica/pdf/niponica27/no27_en.pdf
- The San Francisco Bay Area (referred to locally as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the U.S. state of California. Although the exact boundaries of the region vary depending on the source, the Bay Area is generally accepted to include the nine counties that border the aforementioned estuaries: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. Other sources may exclude parts of or even entire counties, or include neighboring counties such as San Benito, San Joaquin, and Santa Cruz.
- 欲與三藩市灣區試比高！http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20190304/PDF/a12_screen.pdf
- http://economists-pick-research.hktdc.com/business-news/article/Research-Articles/Lessons-from-North-American-Regional-Development-The-Bay-Area-Expansion/rp/en/1/1X32LK39/1X0AGN6X.htm
- Pacific Heights is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California, which is known for the notable people who reside in the area. The Pacific Heights Residents Association defines the neighborhood as stretching from Union Street to Bush Street in the north–south direction and from Van Ness Avenue to Presidio Avenue in the east-west direction.[4] As of 2017, Google Maps delineates its north–south extension more narrowly as reaching from Green Street to California Street. In 2013, Pacific Heights was named the most expensive neighborhood in the United States. The article stated that if San Francisco's Pacific Heights had its own zip code, it would be the most expensive place to live in the United States.[6] The 94115 zip code includes both Pacific Heights' "Gold Coast", an area famous for its billionaire residents and record-breaking prices, and "The Western Addition", an area about 20 blocks away where real estate prices are significantly lower. In 2017, Curbed SFagain announced the "occasionally chic, hardly affordable, always elite Pacific Heights" as San Francisco's most expensive neighborhood.[7] A $40 million Pacific Heights mansion was listed as San Francisco's most expensive home.Lower Pacific Heights, also known as Upper Fillmore, is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California, between Pacific Heights, the Fillmore District, Laurel Heights, and Japantown. The neighborhood is centered on the commercial corridor of Fillmore Street between California and Post streets, with California Street to the north, Geary Street to the south, Presidio Avenue to the west, and Van Ness Avenue to the east. Historically, the area was part of the Western Addition. Long a middle-class neighborhood geographically and socially intermediate between Pacific Heights and the Lower Fillmore, the area became wealthier and more upscale with the escalation of San Francisco property values in the 1980s and 1990s, when the designation "Upper Fillmore" fell out of favor and "Lower Pacific Heights" came into increased use.
- skane http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2019/02/19/a20-0219.pdf- zhejiang
- The neighborhood was first developed in the 1870s,[14] with small Victorian-inspired homes built. Starting around the beginning of the 20th century, and especially after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, many were replaced with period homes. Still residential, the area is characterized by painted Victorian style architecture.The oldest building in Pacific Heights, located at 2475 Pacific Avenue, was built in 1853, though the majority of the neighborhood was built after the 1906 earthquake. The architecture of the neighborhood is varied; Victorian, Mission Revival, Edwardian, and Château styles are common. Several countries have consulates in Pacific Heights. They include Italy,[15] Greece,[16] Vietnam,[17] South Korea,[18] China,[19] and Germany.
- Pacific Heights is a 1990 American psychological thriller film directed by John Schlesinger, written by Daniel Pyne, and starring Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, and Michael Keaton.The story location for the film is the Pacific Heights area of San Francisco. However, the actual film location for Drake and Patty's house is in Potrero Hill in San Francisco, specifically at the corner of 19th and Texas Street.
- mentioned in heung shu fai's article in appledaily 7oct19 his friend rented apartment there with very low rent
- http://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2148352/chinese-province-zhejiang-jumps-greater-bay-area-bandwagon-itsThe provincial government on Monday unveiled its economic blueprint to integrate development of the Hangzhou Bay economic rim, the Ningbo-Taizhou-Wenzhou port industrial belt, and the Yiwu-Ningbo-Zhoushan open channel.Unlike the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area scheme, which connects nine Guangdong cities with Hong Kong and Macau, the Zhejiang plan links three areas within one province and covers around 30 million people – less than half of the population encompassed by the southern strategy.
- 浙江紹興日前舉行首屆紹興發展大會，正式發佈了紹興濱海新區、科創大走廊以及文創大走廊（以下簡稱「一區兩廊」）發展規劃。據悉，這是繼5月28日浙江省正式宣佈大灣區發展戰略後，紹興作為重要節點城市發佈的具體行動舉措。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2018/06/06/a25-0606.pdf
co-location
- clinton parameters hkej 31jul17
Terror attack
- 「伊斯蘭國」極端勢力於今次恐襲採取的是刀砍和汽車衝撞的方式，在倫敦地標性建築附近發動行動，不僅造成多人死傷，而且政治影響極大。這兩大手法是疆獨的慣用策略。比如，烏魯木齊的七五事件，當時疆獨恐怖勢力利用大砍刀沿路砍殺無辜民眾，而且專門砍人頸部，往往一刀斃命。疆獨組織當年在昆明火車站製造的屠殺式恐襲也是如此，幾個恐怖分子手持尖刀專門刺向行人脖子，就連女恐怖分子也是如此。而今次倫敦的襲擊，恐怖分子同出一轍，遇襲者無一不是頸部受傷。至於用車撞，更是疆獨的大殺傷力招數。北京奧運前夕，新疆喀什市邊防支隊進行早操訓練，七十多名武警剛走出軍營，疆獨恐怖分子駕駛大卡車從後面衝撞，導致十七名武警死亡。疆獨恐怖組織之所以常用刀砍和車撞的手法，主要是中國在新疆採取嚴厲的槍枝和炸藥管制，恐怖分子http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20170607/00182_001.html
比武
- 一九五四年一月十七日，武术界太极派掌门人吴公仪和白鹤派掌门人陈克夫在澳门比武引发热议，时任《新晚报》总编辑的罗孚，以其敏锐的触觉意识到，这是一个争取读者的大好契机。他决定在《新晚报》上连载武侠小说，在他心中陈文统是担当此任的最佳人选。于是，比武翌日他在报上预告将刊登精彩的武侠小说。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170611/PDF/a24_screen.pdf
人力車
- http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20170618/PDF/a10_screen.pdf 人力車，又稱為黃包車， 是一種依靠人力的交通工具， 一般有兩個輪子，上有座位， 最多可坐一個大人加一個小孩 ，由一個人在前面拉行。黃包車起源於19 世紀後期的日本，後來傳入中國，因為 1913年在上海租界規定公共人力車必須漆 成黃色，所以又叫黃包車。 香港的人力車相傳約在1870年由一名 商人從日本引入，迅即盛行，至1920年代 初總數更超過3000輛。但自從1924年香港 引入的士，人力車漸走下坡。近半世紀， 人力車的客人幾乎都是遊客。
commercial buildings - sell in smaller units rather than a block
- 9 Queen's Road Central
- lippo
big sale shopping day
- Introduced in 2015 in part to celebrate Amazon's 20th anniversary, the first Prime Day was a one-day-only retail holiday that sought to overtake Black Friday as the sales event of the year.http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-amazon-prime-day
納米樓
- 沙田河畔花園係香港最早期嘅「納米樓」，落成於1980年代初，記得當時左丁山任職於一間加拿大銀行，曾經奉命審視銀行是否應該參與建築貸款；嗰陣時，好運中心、沙田中心、河畔花園、翠華花園相繼興建，同是細面積單位，河畔花園算係細中之細。可恨當年無老經驗高人指點，情願住在排頭村村屋，也不肯買入「細單位」，從自住博升值或投資角度嚟講，左丁山直情係笨蛋。https://hk.lifestyle.appledaily.com/lifestyle/columnist/%E5%B7%A6%E4%B8%81%E5%B1%B1/daily/article/20180423/20369534
arch
stone structure
- stone henge
- Los alineamientos de Carnac (en francés: alignements de Carnac)? son un conjunto de alineamientos megalíticos situados al norte del pueblo del mismo nombre, junto al golfo de Morbihan, en Bretaña (Francia). Es el monumento prehistórico más extenso del mundo, y fue erigido durante el Neolítico, en algún momento entre los milenios V y III a.C.Carnac stones, thousands of prehistoric standing stones spread across three alignments: Ménec, Kermario and Kerlescan.
- The Manpupuner rock formations (Man-Pupu-Nyor; Мань-Пупу-нёр; Mansi: Мань-Пупыг-Нёр [ma:nʲ.pupɨγ.nʲɔ:r], literally ’Small Idol Mountain’; Komi: Болвано-Из [bolvano.iz], literally ’Idol Stone’) are a set of 7 stone pillars located west of the Ural mountains in the Troitsko-Pechorsky District of the Komi Republic. They are located on the territory of the Pechoro-Ilychski Reserve on the mountain Man-Pupu-nyor, between the Ilych and Pechora rivers. They are also known as the Seven Strong Men Rock Formations and the Poles of the Komi Republic.
leaning structure
- leaning minaret, nangarhar, afghanistan
- pisa tower
grauman's theatre
- egyptian, opened in 1922
"Rhodopis" (Greek: Ροδώπις) is an ancient tale about a Greek courtesan who marries the king of Egypt. The story was first recorded by the Greek historian Strabo in the 1st century BC and is considered the earliest known variant of the "Cinderella" story.[1] The origins of the fairy-tale figure may be traced back to the 6th-century BC hetaera Rhodopis.
立雪亭建于明代，一九八零年重修，现为寺僧日常作佛事的场所。相传这里是二祖慧可侍立在雪地里向达摩祖师断臂求法的地方。
metoo
- 港队跨栏运动员吕丽瑶自揭十年前被前教练性侵犯，当事人仍未就事件向警方报案。据悉，警方已成立专责小组，由九龙城警区总警司李雅丽统筹。政务司司长张建宗昨日重申，政府高度关注事件，警方会尽力跟进，并呼吁其他性侵犯受害人举报，政府亦会检视法例，研究加强保障受害人权利。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20171203/PDF/a10_screen.pdf
醜陋的-
- 上世紀五十年代出版的一本書，《 醜陋的美國人》。作者是兩位長期在東南 亞採訪的美國記者，他們以冷戰期間蘇美 在東南亞的博弈為背景，用荒誕的筆觸描 述一場美國在東南亞外交上的失敗，刻畫 了蘇美兩國外交官在處理東南亞事務上的 不同，目的實在是為美國外交敲響警鐘。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20200525/PDF/b11_screen.pdf
dna collection
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/13/chinese-authorities-collecting-dna-residents-xinjiang Chinese authorities are collecting DNA samples, fingerprints and other biometric data from every resident in a far western region, Human Rights Watch has said. Officials are also building a database of iris scans and blood types of everyone aged between 12 and 65 in Xinjiang, adding to controls in a place some experts have called an “open-air prison”. The region is home to over 11 million Uighurs, a Muslim Turkic minority, and is occasionally hit by bouts of violence.
X-vision song contest
- The Intervision Song Contest (ISC) is an international song contest consisting of both Post-Soviet states and members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Since 1977.
- Turkvision Song Contest (Turkish: Türkvizyon Şarkı Yarışması), also known as Türkvizyon Song Contest, was an annual song contest created by Turkish music channel TMB TV, inspired by the format of the Eurovision Song Contest. The first edition took place in Eskişehir, Turkey. The semi-final was held on 19 December 2013, with the grand final taking place on 21 December 2013.
100 songs, xx
- 日本の歌百選（にほんのうたひゃくせん）は、2006年（平成18年）に日本の文化庁と日本PTA全国協議会が、親子で長く歌い継いでほしい童謡・唱歌や歌謡曲といった抒情歌や愛唱歌の歌101曲を選定したもの。
award scheme
- https://www.state.gov/e/eb/ace/ The annual Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) recognizes U.S. firms that uphold high standards of responsible business conduct. Established in 1999, the ACE seeks to highlight ways in which U.S. companies represent American values in the way they do business, in line with international best practices such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
skills assessment
- Trades Recognition Australia (TRA) is a skills assessment service provider specialising in assessments for people with trade skills gained overseas or in Australia, for the purpose of migration and skills recognition.https://www.tradesrecognitionaustralia.gov.au/about-us
DQ
- in israel hkej 28dec17 shum article
broadcasting wedding proceeding
- Tiny Tim married Vicki Budinger on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson." Born Herbert Khaury in New York City in 1932, Tiny Tim took his stage name from the Charles Dickens character, and performed for years in small Greenwich Village clubs. His falsetto vocals and ukulele dexterity eventually won him notice. And, in 1968, his version of "Tip Toe Through The Tulips" became an unlikely hit song.
double act
- Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholomew, 14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984) and Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman, 27 November 1925 – 21 March 1999), known as Morecambe and Wise (and sometimes as Eric and Ernie), were an iconic English comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television. Their partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. The show was a significant part of British popular culture, and they have been described as "the most illustrious, and the best-loved, double-act that Britain has ever produced".
- hui koon man and sam hui koon kit
- ant and dec
voice of xx
- voice of america
- 根據《深化黨和國家機構改革方案》，整合中央電視台（中國國際電視台）、中央人民廣播電台、中國國際廣播電台，組建中央廣播電視總台，作為國務院直屬事業單位，歸口中宣部領導。對內保留原呼號，對外統一呼號為「中國之聲」。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2018/04/20/a17-0420.pdf
speech
- repetition of clauses
- change
virgin conceiving without intercourse
- mary --> jesus
- The Snow-child is a widespread European folktale,[1] found in many medieval tellings. A merchant returns home after an absence of two years to find his wife with a newborn son. She explains one snowy day she swallowed a snowflake while thinking about her husband which caused her to conceive. Pretending to believe, he raises the boy with her until he takes the boy on a trip and sells him into slavery. On his return, he explains to his wife that the boy melted in the heat.The tale first appears in the 11th-century Cambridge Songs.[2][4] It also appears in Medieval fabliaux,[3] and was used in school exercises of rhetoric.[2] A Medieval play about the Virgin Mary has characters disbelieving her story of her pregnancy citing the tale.
- 灵岩郡（朝鲜语：영암군）位于韩国全罗南道的西南端。月出山国立公园是伸向木浦前海的小白山脉在灵岩留下的在平地上凸出的残丘形态山，被指定为国立公园的月出山以天皇峰（809m）为中心整个山都由奇岩怪石组成。月出山是百济的王仁博士和新罗末期道诜国师的出生地，被誉为湖南的小金刚。鸠林村是有从三韩时代开始相传至今的悠久历史的村庄，现在还保留着具有436年传统的大洞契。鸠林村是培养出百济的王仁博士、新罗末期的道诜国师、高丽初期的崔知梦先生的地方。An unmarried girl surnamed 崔gave birth to 道诜国师
washington and apple tree
- st augustine - incident of the pears
single employee trader losing a lot of money
- 日本三菱電機上周五發布消息，指其新加坡的子公司因違反公司內部規定，進行金融衍生品交易，導致損失約三億二千萬美元（約二十五億港元），日媒披露，事緣於一名卅多歲的中國籍男員工肇禍，其已於上周三被解僱，公司亦已要求當地警方立案調查。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190922/00178_006.html
dragon slayer
- A vishapakar (Armenian: Վիշապաքար) also known as vishap stones, vishap stellas, "serpent-stones", "dragon stones", or simply as vishaps, are characteristic menhirsfound in large quantities in the Armenian Highlands, in natural and artificial ponds, and other sources of water. They are commonly carved from one piece of stone, into cigar-like shapes with fish heads or serpents.[1] Supposedly they are images of vishaps, mystical creatures.
- https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3031892/malaysian-parliament-open-amid-fears-ethnic-nationalism-and As the Malaysian parliament opens this week amid public furore over a racially charged forum that was held on Sunday, big questions over the nation’s coming budget and a slew of other key bills will dominate the two-month meeting. Top of the agenda is the 2020 budget to be tabled on Friday that is being seen as a forerunner to the country’s 12th Malaysia Plan – a five-year development blueprint to be launched next year premised on the new government’s Shared Prosperity initiative, which aims to minimise inequality and bolster inclusive growth. Analysts expect a business-friendly, pro-growth budget and discussions about a potential reinstatement of the Goods and Services Tax, which was scrapped last year after the Pakatan Harapan coalition took power and replaced it with the Sales and Service Tax. At a thousands-strong Malay Dignity Congress held on Sunday at a stadium in Kuala Lumpur, speakers from both sides of the political divide took to the stage to champion Malay rights and discuss the “social contract” – a catch-all term for an unwritten quid pro quo agreement made before Malaysian independence that saw non-Malay ethnic minorities granted citizenship in return for recognising the Malays’ privileges. Congress chief Zainal Kling even said these citizenships could be suspended. The forum put forward five racially contentious demands, including that top civil service positions be reserved for Malays, and constitutionally protected Chinese or Tamil-language schools be shut down.
arch
- The Arch of Constantine (Italian: Arco di Costantino) is a triumphal arch in Rome, situated between the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill. It was erected by the Roman Senate to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312.[a]Dedicated in 315, it is the largest Roman triumphal arch. The arch spans the Via triumphalis, the way taken by the emperors when they entered the city in triumph. Though dedicated to Constantine, much of the decorative material incorporated earlier work from the time of the emperors Trajan (98–117), Hadrian (117–138) and Marcus Aurelius (161–180), and is thus a collage. The last of the existing triumphal arches in Rome, it is also the only one to make extensive use of spolia, reusing several major reliefs from 2nd century imperial monuments, which give a striking and famous stylistic contrast to the sculpture newly created for the arch. This earned it the derisive nickname of Cornacchia di Esopo Aesop's Crow.
- The Triumphal Arch of Orange (French: Arc de triomphe d'Orange) is a triumphal arch located in the town of Orange, southeast France. There is debate about when the arch was built,[3] but current research that accepts the inscription as evidence favours a date during the reign of Augustus (27 BC - AD 14).[5] It was built on the former via Agrippa to honor the veterans of the Gallic Wars and Legio II Augusta. It was later reconstructed by emperor Tiberius to celebrate the victories of Germanicus over the German tribes in Rhineland.[5] The arch contains an inscription dedicated to emperor Tiberius in AD 27. On the northern (outward-facing) facade, the architrave and cornice have been cut back and a bronze inscription inserted, now lost; attempts at reconstructing its text from the placement of cramp holes for the projecting tines of its letters have not been successful. The arch is decorated with various reliefs of military themes, including naval battles, spoils of war and Romans battling Germanics and Gauls. A Roman foot soldier carrying the shield of Legio II Augusta is seen on the north front battle relief.
- Das Lüdinghauser Tor ist ein Bestandteil der ehemaligen Stadtbefestigung von Dülmen.
- Das Lüdinghauser Tor ist ein Bestandteil der ehemaligen Stadtbefestigung von Dülmen.
stone structure
- stone henge
- Los alineamientos de Carnac (en francés: alignements de Carnac)? son un conjunto de alineamientos megalíticos situados al norte del pueblo del mismo nombre, junto al golfo de Morbihan, en Bretaña (Francia). Es el monumento prehistórico más extenso del mundo, y fue erigido durante el Neolítico, en algún momento entre los milenios V y III a.C.Carnac stones, thousands of prehistoric standing stones spread across three alignments: Ménec, Kermario and Kerlescan.
- The Manpupuner rock formations (Man-Pupu-Nyor; Мань-Пупу-нёр; Mansi: Мань-Пупыг-Нёр [ma:nʲ.pupɨγ.nʲɔ:r], literally ’Small Idol Mountain’; Komi: Болвано-Из [bolvano.iz], literally ’Idol Stone’) are a set of 7 stone pillars located west of the Ural mountains in the Troitsko-Pechorsky District of the Komi Republic. They are located on the territory of the Pechoro-Ilychski Reserve on the mountain Man-Pupu-nyor, between the Ilych and Pechora rivers. They are also known as the Seven Strong Men Rock Formations and the Poles of the Komi Republic.
leaning structure
- leaning minaret, nangarhar, afghanistan
- pisa tower
moai easter island
- サンメッセ日南は、日向灘を望むレストランや売店がある人気スポットです。日向灘をバックにした丘に立つ「モアイ像」７体は、イースター島の長老会から世界で唯一特別な許可を受けて完全再現したものです。7体それぞれにラッキージンクスがあり、恋愛運アップに御利益のあるモアイ像が特に人気があります。http://miyazakiken.xyz/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%A1%E3%83%83%E3%82%BB%E6%97%A5%E5%8D%97%E3%80%80%E3%83%A2%E3%82%A2%E3%82%A4/post-1233.htmlgrauman's theatre
- egyptian, opened in 1922
- Netflix said it had closed its long-in-the works deal to buy the Egyptian Theatre for an undisclosed sum from American Cinematheque, a Los Angeles nonprofit that has owned the venue since 1996. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-05-29/netflix-egyptian-sale-closes
Panchatantra
- aesop
"Rhodopis" (Greek: Ροδώπις) is an ancient tale about a Greek courtesan who marries the king of Egypt. The story was first recorded by the Greek historian Strabo in the 1st century BC and is considered the earliest known variant of the "Cinderella" story.[1] The origins of the fairy-tale figure may be traced back to the 6th-century BC hetaera Rhodopis.
立雪亭建于明代，一九八零年重修，现为寺僧日常作佛事的场所。相传这里是二祖慧可侍立在雪地里向达摩祖师断臂求法的地方。
metoo
- 港队跨栏运动员吕丽瑶自揭十年前被前教练性侵犯，当事人仍未就事件向警方报案。据悉，警方已成立专责小组，由九龙城警区总警司李雅丽统筹。政务司司长张建宗昨日重申，政府高度关注事件，警方会尽力跟进，并呼吁其他性侵犯受害人举报，政府亦会检视法例，研究加强保障受害人权利。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20171203/PDF/a10_screen.pdf
醜陋的-
- 上世紀五十年代出版的一本書，《 醜陋的美國人》。作者是兩位長期在東南 亞採訪的美國記者，他們以冷戰期間蘇美 在東南亞的博弈為背景，用荒誕的筆觸描 述一場美國在東南亞外交上的失敗，刻畫 了蘇美兩國外交官在處理東南亞事務上的 不同，目的實在是為美國外交敲響警鐘。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20200525/PDF/b11_screen.pdf
dna collection
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/13/chinese-authorities-collecting-dna-residents-xinjiang Chinese authorities are collecting DNA samples, fingerprints and other biometric data from every resident in a far western region, Human Rights Watch has said. Officials are also building a database of iris scans and blood types of everyone aged between 12 and 65 in Xinjiang, adding to controls in a place some experts have called an “open-air prison”. The region is home to over 11 million Uighurs, a Muslim Turkic minority, and is occasionally hit by bouts of violence.
X-vision song contest
- The Intervision Song Contest (ISC) is an international song contest consisting of both Post-Soviet states and members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Since 1977.
- Turkvision Song Contest (Turkish: Türkvizyon Şarkı Yarışması), also known as Türkvizyon Song Contest, was an annual song contest created by Turkish music channel TMB TV, inspired by the format of the Eurovision Song Contest. The first edition took place in Eskişehir, Turkey. The semi-final was held on 19 December 2013, with the grand final taking place on 21 December 2013.
100 songs, xx
- 日本の歌百選（にほんのうたひゃくせん）は、2006年（平成18年）に日本の文化庁と日本PTA全国協議会が、親子で長く歌い継いでほしい童謡・唱歌や歌謡曲といった抒情歌や愛唱歌の歌101曲を選定したもの。
award scheme
- https://www.state.gov/e/eb/ace/ The annual Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE) recognizes U.S. firms that uphold high standards of responsible business conduct. Established in 1999, the ACE seeks to highlight ways in which U.S. companies represent American values in the way they do business, in line with international best practices such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
skills assessment
- Trades Recognition Australia (TRA) is a skills assessment service provider specialising in assessments for people with trade skills gained overseas or in Australia, for the purpose of migration and skills recognition.https://www.tradesrecognitionaustralia.gov.au/about-us
DQ
- in israel hkej 28dec17 shum article
broadcasting wedding proceeding
- Tiny Tim married Vicki Budinger on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson." Born Herbert Khaury in New York City in 1932, Tiny Tim took his stage name from the Charles Dickens character, and performed for years in small Greenwich Village clubs. His falsetto vocals and ukulele dexterity eventually won him notice. And, in 1968, his version of "Tip Toe Through The Tulips" became an unlikely hit song.
double act
- Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholomew, 14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984) and Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman, 27 November 1925 – 21 March 1999), known as Morecambe and Wise (and sometimes as Eric and Ernie), were an iconic English comic double act, working in variety, radio, film and most successfully in television. Their partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. The show was a significant part of British popular culture, and they have been described as "the most illustrious, and the best-loved, double-act that Britain has ever produced".
- hui koon man and sam hui koon kit
- ant and dec
voice of xx
- voice of america
- Originally established in 1942, the VOA charter (Public Laws 94-350 and 103-415) was signed into law in 1976 by former President Gerald Ford. The charter contains its mission, "to broadcast accurate, balanced, and comprehensive news and information to an international audience", and defines the legally mandated standards in the VOA journalistic code.
- 根據《深化黨和國家機構改革方案》，整合中央電視台（中國國際電視台）、中央人民廣播電台、中國國際廣播電台，組建中央廣播電視總台，作為國務院直屬事業單位，歸口中宣部領導。對內保留原呼號，對外統一呼號為「中國之聲」。http://pdf.wenweipo.com/2018/04/20/a17-0420.pdf
speech
- repetition of clauses
- mubarak's speech in 1998 - "will remain"
- change
- In the elections of 1981 Papandreou used as slogan the catchword change (Greek: αλλαγή). Some analysts, including Afentouli, regard PASOK's victory under Papandreou as a culmination of the metapolitefsi of 1974, given that the fall of the junta had not been accompanied by the rise of new political powers, but rather by the resumption of power by the old guard politicians.
- Đổi Mới (Vietnamese: [ɗo᷉i mə̌ːi]; English: "Renovation") is the name given to the economic reforms initiated in Vietnam in 1986 with the goal of creating a "socialist-oriented market economy". The term đổi mới itself is a general term with wide use in the Vietnamese language. However, the Doi Moi Policy (Chính sách Đổi Mới) refers specifically to these reforms which sought to transition Vietnam from a command economy to a socialist-oriented market economy.[1] The Đổi Mới economic reforms were initiated by the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1986 during the party's 6th National Congress. These reforms introduced a greater role for market forces for the coordination of economic activity between enterprises and government agencies, and allowed for private ownership of small enterprises and the creation of a stock exchange for both state and non-state enterprises.
- an apple a day keeps doctor away
- [ochsle] queen victoria visited hochheim am main in 1845, saying a bottle of hock keeps off the doc
- mary --> jesus
- The Snow-child is a widespread European folktale,[1] found in many medieval tellings. A merchant returns home after an absence of two years to find his wife with a newborn son. She explains one snowy day she swallowed a snowflake while thinking about her husband which caused her to conceive. Pretending to believe, he raises the boy with her until he takes the boy on a trip and sells him into slavery. On his return, he explains to his wife that the boy melted in the heat.The tale first appears in the 11th-century Cambridge Songs.[2][4] It also appears in Medieval fabliaux,[3] and was used in school exercises of rhetoric.[2] A Medieval play about the Virgin Mary has characters disbelieving her story of her pregnancy citing the tale.
- 灵岩郡（朝鲜语：영암군）位于韩国全罗南道的西南端。月出山国立公园是伸向木浦前海的小白山脉在灵岩留下的在平地上凸出的残丘形态山，被指定为国立公园的月出山以天皇峰（809m）为中心整个山都由奇岩怪石组成。月出山是百济的王仁博士和新罗末期道诜国师的出生地，被誉为湖南的小金刚。鸠林村是有从三韩时代开始相传至今的悠久历史的村庄，现在还保留着具有436年传统的大洞契。鸠林村是培养出百济的王仁博士、新罗末期的道诜国师、高丽初期的崔知梦先生的地方。An unmarried girl surnamed 崔gave birth to 道诜国师
washington and apple tree
- st augustine - incident of the pears
single employee trader losing a lot of money
- 日本三菱電機上周五發布消息，指其新加坡的子公司因違反公司內部規定，進行金融衍生品交易，導致損失約三億二千萬美元（約二十五億港元），日媒披露，事緣於一名卅多歲的中國籍男員工肇禍，其已於上周三被解僱，公司亦已要求當地警方立案調查。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20190922/00178_006.html
dragon slayer
- A vishapakar (Armenian: Վիշապաքար) also known as vishap stones, vishap stellas, "serpent-stones", "dragon stones", or simply as vishaps, are characteristic menhirsfound in large quantities in the Armenian Highlands, in natural and artificial ponds, and other sources of water. They are commonly carved from one piece of stone, into cigar-like shapes with fish heads or serpents.[1] Supposedly they are images of vishaps, mystical creatures.
- Vishap is also seen as an eerie monster who is a water source and guards treasure. Almost all the mythology explains divinity or god's hand as the cause of Vishap's death, which absorbed the water, the treasures that were guarded, and released the sacrificial virgins. Thus, old Egyptian myth regards Vishap as a power of darkness, who is defeated by the sun goddess Rán. As for Armenian myth, Vahagn, the dragon slayer, fights and wins the battle against Vishap.
- https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3031892/malaysian-parliament-open-amid-fears-ethnic-nationalism-and As the Malaysian parliament opens this week amid public furore over a racially charged forum that was held on Sunday, big questions over the nation’s coming budget and a slew of other key bills will dominate the two-month meeting. Top of the agenda is the 2020 budget to be tabled on Friday that is being seen as a forerunner to the country’s 12th Malaysia Plan – a five-year development blueprint to be launched next year premised on the new government’s Shared Prosperity initiative, which aims to minimise inequality and bolster inclusive growth. Analysts expect a business-friendly, pro-growth budget and discussions about a potential reinstatement of the Goods and Services Tax, which was scrapped last year after the Pakatan Harapan coalition took power and replaced it with the Sales and Service Tax. At a thousands-strong Malay Dignity Congress held on Sunday at a stadium in Kuala Lumpur, speakers from both sides of the political divide took to the stage to champion Malay rights and discuss the “social contract” – a catch-all term for an unwritten quid pro quo agreement made before Malaysian independence that saw non-Malay ethnic minorities granted citizenship in return for recognising the Malays’ privileges. Congress chief Zainal Kling even said these citizenships could be suspended. The forum put forward five racially contentious demands, including that top civil service positions be reserved for Malays, and constitutionally protected Chinese or Tamil-language schools be shut down.
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