Hampton Court Palace Turk River Cruise: Kingston to Hampton Court Heavy Horses at Hampton Court Palace! (23.6.2019) We drove to Kingston on Sunday morning after
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Oldway Mansion: Adrian & Gee (27.7.2010)
Oldway Mansion – Paignton OUR WEDDING: GEE & ADRIAN (9.4.2009) Myself and Gee were married at Oldway Mansion in Paignton on the 9.4.2010, as it
Etymology: ‘仕’ (shi4) – Scholar-Official
Chinese character: ‘仕’ (shi4) Left-hand ideogram = 亻(ren2) – a contraction of ‘人’ – meaning ‘people’ or ‘person’. Right-hand ideogram = 士 (shi4). The lower
The Enigma of the Longyou Cave Complex (龙游石窟) – Zhejiang – China
(Research and Translation by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD) Translator’s Note: In this article I have gathered together a number of Chinese language texts and trnslated extracts
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.
The Psychological & Physical Deficiencies of Xu Xiaodong (徐晓冬)
The film footage of Xu Xiaodong (against Master Lei Gong), shows a man with no real mixed martial arts skills – who could have been easily defeated with groin-kicking or throat-punching, etc, and whose mental state is often described as ‘mad’ even by himself!
