Category: Anniversaries & Celebrations!

A Section for the Wyles Family and a Associated Projects!

China: 2,000-Year-Old (Qinling) Giant Panda Remains Unearthed! (3.8.2023)

Cao Long, a researcher at the Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology, said that it is not yet possible to conclude that Emperor Wendi or Empress Bo had a special preference for giant pandas. “Based on the current number of subsidiary pits and the identified animal species, it still appears to be a royal garden feature, rather than being specifically buried with giant pandas due to personal preference,” he said.

Besides the giant panda, the remains of other rare animals were found in the burial pits, including tiger, tapir, Indian wild buffalo, oryx, serow, and yak remains, which reflects the belief in the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) that people will live a life in the underworld similar to when they were alive, according to the report.

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African-American – Kyle Anderson (李凯尔) -Obtains Chinese Citizenship! (25.7.2023)

“I’m so happy to announce that I would be representing China in the World Cup. Really proud to wear the team China jersey，” Anderson said on his Weibo account.

Anderson’s great-grandfather was Chinese, according to Sina Sports, adding that in 2018, he visited his ancestral home in south China’s Shenzhen City with his mother to trace his roots and was officially registered in the family genealogy under his Chinese name Li Kai’er.

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Imperial Germany: Voices of British POWs Recorded During WWI! (24.7.2022)

The sheer ‘localism’ is astonishing! This is a time before globalism and when people came from the places they were born into – places they were not expected to leave throughout their lifetimes. The Germans wanted to use these recordings to train German Colonial Troops – after Germany had won WWI – to invade, settle and control all parts of the UK prior to British culture being usurped, wiped out and eventually replaced with German language and culture!

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Fetch the Fire Brigade: Chinese People Being ‘Human’ Again! (22.7.2023)

A problem has sometimes been caused by these barricades when people have been trapped in their flats by out of control fires and have been unable to get to the front door! This delay between a fire being reported, the Fire Brigade arriving and the victim(s) getting out can be lethal! As can be seen here, the local people took matters into their own hands and decided to act! This action prevented this young child from be trapped between the barricades and the fire and being burned to death!

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Lebanon: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Visits the Liberated (Disabled) Prisoner Yasser Al-Moazin! (22.07.2023)

During the visit, the conditions the prisoners are held in the prisons of the Zionist Occupation were reviewed. This assessment included the conditions the prisoners are forced to suffer during home-detention. Yasser Al-Moazin gave an account of the conditions of his arrest, his exposure to disease, his suffering in the Zionist prisons until his release and exile to Gaza. His further exile to Syria, and finally to Lebanon. We also discussed the health conditions he is going through now – which led to the amputation of his legs.

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China: Huawei to Roll-Out 5.5G Equipment! (20.7.2023)

In China, the number of 5G base stations exceeded 2.84 million by the end of May as the country ramped up efforts to build the world’s largest and most advanced network infrastructure, said Wang Jiangping, vice-minister of industry and information technology, during the Global Digital Economy Conference 2023 held in Beijing earlier this month.

With technologically advanced network infrastructure, China has been accelerating the development of the digital economy in recent years.

The scale of China’s digital economy grew to 50.2 trillion yuan ($7 trillion) in 2022. The share of the digital economy in the country’s GDP rose to 41.5 percent, making it an important engine for stable growth and transformation, according to data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.

With service models and content evolving continuously, breakthroughs in technologies like goggles-free 3D are creating unprecedented immersive experiences for users. However, these new services require stronger 5G network capabilities, making a stronger case for 5.5G modalities.

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