However, just after our flight touched-down in Cairo, both myself and my partner (who is ethnic Chinese), were taken aside by (Asian) Egyptian immigration officials, and asked why it was that we had a ‘mixed’ marriage!
Category: Human Interest
Anything that does not fit into to any of the other specific categories and is of general interest!
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
Prior to the scientific work of Physicist Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), it was thought that the location and momentum of a particle could be precisely measured
Film: Another Mother’s Son (2017) Soviet POWs On Jersey and Their Misrepresentation
His character in the film is also (and falsely) depicted as ‘going to church’ and being ‘interested’ in the singing – events that never happened at all. In fact, Fyodor Burogo was a patriotic Soviet soldier and citizen who despised organised religion.
How the Soviets Developed Supersonic Passenger Flight (Ту-144)
The first flight of the Ty-144 took place on December 31, 1968 (it was carried out by the Tupolev EDO testor Eduard Yelyan), that is, two months earlier than the Western Concorde. The Ty-144 was the first passenger airliner in history to overcome the sound barrier, it happened (June 5th, 1969) at an altitude of 11,000 meters.
The Boxer Urising (义和团运动) and the Fight Against Hunger in China
Following the eventual defeat of the Boxer Movement (i.e. the ‘Righteous Harmonious Fists’), the imperialist forces of the UK, US, Czarist Russia and Japan massacred around 50,000 innocent men, women and children in Beijing – after the city had surrendered.
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906) and the Re-Discovery of the Atom in Western Science
Ludwig Boltzmann, being fully aware that atoms had to be ‘statistically’ proven to exist, exercised his particular genius, and developed a mathematical formula which proved the existence and behaviour of atoms.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 