After Chen Quanguo was appointed Communist Party secretary, he went to Tibet where he saw that they started arresting Uighurs and sending them to torture camps. The people were told that they were going to reeducation camps. The police took them from their homes at night and took their children to orphanages. Most of the people were sent to hospitals, […]
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An Icelandic public broadcast station aired 24 hours of live sheep birthing, part of its “slow TV” campaign, which also featured chess, knitting, and wood-burning.
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“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
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“We are all stupid, just on different subjects.” – Mark Twain
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HOTAND COLD Perhaps 100million years To rise from naught, then disappear Above the Hot Spot in the Earth That to Hawaiian Chain gave birth. The oldest now perhaps just stumps, Once mountains proud, now merely bumps Long passed from magma cauldron where They first broke through the surface there. The youngest rise majestically For miles above […]
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“Every revolutionary idea evokes three stages of reaction: 1) It’s completely impossible 2) It’s possible but it’s not worth doing 3) I said it was a good idea all along.” – Arthur C. Clarke
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“You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.” – Jessica Mitford
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“Hate It or Love It, the Underdog’s on TOP, and I’m gonna Shine until My Heart Stops.”
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An expedition team in Antarctica has successfully cleared away layers of thick ice from inside the hut of the famous Australian explorer Sir Douglas Mawson, revealing a century-old frozen bowl of peas, books on the shelves, candles, matches and “old-style woolen underwear”. The team used picks and chainsaws to remove the ice that had filled the main living quarters used […]
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