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Youths renew their dedication to ideals awakened over 100 years ago Young people pose for a photo at the location of the first National Congress of the Communist Party of Chinaon Tuesday in Shanghai to mark National Youth Day, commemorating the May Fourth Movement. [Photo/Xinhua] Young people across the nation celebrated National Youth Day on Tuesday through activities to inherit the May Fourth spirit in the new era. Tuesday marked the 102nd anniversary of the May Fourth Movement in Ch...

Article content My title and this column’s proximity to May Fourth might have already given away the correct answer, but I have a quiz for you this week, a “guess who I’m talking about” riddle. First clue. This person has been nominated for 52 Academy Awards, winning five; six Emmy Awards, winning three; 25 Golden Globe Awards, winning four; 71 Grammy Awards, winning 25. This person currently holds the record for the most Oscar nominations for a living person and is the second most nomi...

May Fourth spirit celebrated Updated: May 05,2021 08:01 AM    China Daily Young people across the nation celebrated National Youth Day on May 4 through activities to inherit the May Fourth spirit in the new era. May 4 marked the 102nd anniversary of the May Fourth Movement in China. The movement started with huge student protests on May 4, 1919, opposing the governments response to the Treaty of Versailles, which treated China unfairly and undermined the c...

Metropolis novelty store celebrates Star Wars Day Hidden Gems in Metropolis celebrated Star Wars Day on Tuesday, May 4. (Source: KFVS) By Amber Ruch | May 4, 2021 at 3:44 PM CDT - Updated May 4 at 3:44 PM METROPOLIS, Ill. (KFVS) - A store in Metropolis specializing in novelties and collectibles celebrated Star Wars Day on Tuesday, May 4. “Well, today is Star Wars Day and, you know, there’s people all over who are fans of it,” said David Santellano. “It’s just we can all come to...

  Young people across the nation celebrated National Youth Day on Tuesday through activities to inherit the May Fourth spirit in the new era.     The movement started with huge student protests on May 4, 1919, opposing the governments response to the Treaty of Versailles, which treated China unfairly and undermined the countrys sovereignty in the aftermath of World War I. The movement triggered a national campaign to overthrow the old society and promote new ideas, including science, democra...

May Fourth is informally the Star Wars Day holiday, which random brands typically use to hawk their wares. Although it’s not as bad as the promotions that come out of the woodwork on April Fools’ Day, I think I’m drawing the line at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum adding an X-wing Starfighter from Star Wars to its collection. The museum announced today that the famous ship would be going on display in 2022, via a prop loan from the Disney-owned production company, Lucasfil...

A Chinese Communist Party-linked account mocked Indias Covid crisis on social media. It backfired CNN 1 hr ago By Nectar Gan and James Griffiths, CNN © Anindito Mukherjee/Getty Images AsiaPac/Getty Images NEW DELHI, INDIA - MAY 01: A priest who works at a crematorium performs the last rites of a patient who died of COVID-19 amid burning funeral pyres on May 01, 2021 in New Delhi, India. With cases crossing 400,000 a day and with more than 3500 deaths recorded in the last 24...

>>Aerial Spraying For Gypsy Moths To Begin (Harrisburg, PA) -- Aerial spraying to battle gypsy moth outbreaks in Pennsylvania is going to be underway soon. The states Department of Conservation and Natural Resources announced yesterday that the Bureau of Forestry will be overseeing the spraying of almost 150 sites totaling more than 203-thousand acres. The spraying will be done by helicopters and planes. Officials say gypsy moths are an invasive species that cause major habitat loss by kil...

>>Aerial Spraying For Gypsy Moths To Begin (Harrisburg, PA) -- Aerial spraying to battle gypsy moth outbreaks in Pennsylvania is going to be underway soon. The states Department of Conservation and Natural Resources announced yesterday that the Bureau of Forestry will be overseeing the spraying of almost 150 sites totaling more than 203-thousand acres. The spraying will be done by helicopters and planes. Officials say gypsy moths are an invasive species that cause major habitat loss by kil...

1. In April 1924 Rabindranath Tagore arrived in Shanghai for a lecture tour of China. Soon after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, Tagore had become an international literary celebrity, lecturing to packed audiences from Japan to Argentina. His message—that modern civilization, built upon the cult of money and power, was inherently destructive, and needed to be tempered by the spiritual wisdom of the East—had a receptive audience among many people in the West who had been fo...