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Top 10 Images Of The World’s Eeriest Places It seems that in every corner of the world, there are not only spectacular travel destinations to be found, but also paths that lead to eerie places full of mystery and creepiness. The hushed atmosphere of a lone or abandoned structure seems to always lead to tales of terror. On this list are images of just a few of the eeriest places around the world and the stories that surround them. The gate in this picture doesn’t seem like it’s leading ...

news Author vilified for Wuhan Diary speaks out a year on © Wu Baojian She has faced a nationalist backlash for her diaries documenting life in Wuhan in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, but Chinese author Fang Fang she says she will not be silenced. "When facing a catastrophe, its vital to voice your opinion and give your advice," she told BBC Chinese in a rare email interview with international media. In late January, when Wuhan became the first place in the world to enter a state...

Lee Edwards is a leading historian of American conservatism and the author or editor of 25 books. Can you name the greatest mass murderer of the 20th century? No, it wasn’t Hitler or Stalin. It was Mao Zedong. According to the authoritative “Black Book of Communism,” an estimated 65 million Chinese died as a result of Mao’s repeated, merciless attempts to create a new “socialist” China. Anyone who got in his way was done away with -- by execution, imprisonment or forced famine. For...

Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue at Texas A&M Texas A&M University in College Station reportedly disciplined one professor and terminated another for classroom misconduct, following investigations that originated with speech complaints against them. Filipe Castro, Frederick R. Mayer Fellow II of Nautical Archaeology, who was reportedly fired, was found to have failed to meet his responsibilities to A&M and students, and to have created a negative learning environment, according to records first ob...

Story of a Russian Princess Wife of Late Czar’s Brother Tells of Meeting With Trotzky and of Her Husband’s Terrible Death. January 1 1920 Story of a Russian Princess Wife of Late Czar’s Brother Tells of Meeting With Trotzky and of Her Husband’s Terrible Death. ONE of the most dramatic stories that has come out of Russia is that of Princess Olga Paley. She was the morganatic wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovitch, the youngest brother of the Czar. She managed...

Sat, 09 Jan 2021 22:04 UTC Londons Carnaby Street is pictured above on Saturday under the national lockdown. What if the days did not, after all, start to grow longer after Christmas? Well, yes, of course they will (wont they?) but I feel a dark, oppressive foreboding which makes spring seem very far away. Why is this? I sense that I and some others have now become the targets of a worrying wave of spite, censorship and intolerance, very like the McCarthyite frenzy in 1950s America which swept ...

© Ron Gatepain Beijing’s Yi He Yuan, or the Summer Palace, is a complex of halls, towers, kiosks, and pavilions in a 720-acre (290-ha) park around Kunminghu lake, about 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Tiananmen. It was commissioned by Emperor Qianlong in 1750 as the Qingyi Yuan (Garden of Clear Ripples), which developed into the imperial summer residence. It was attacked by foreign armies in 1860 and 1900, and rebuilt on each occasion. The Dowager Empress Cixi lived here from 1889 until her de...

India: Democracy or Mobocracy? As protests subsume India, the above question is being increasingly asked. While we are a democracy, we haven’t got it right as critics are put in detention, dissent silenced and majoritarian tactics used. By Shaan Katari Libby On any given day, one reads about protests raging and about how democracy is being compromised in the country. Whether the issue is Kashmir, the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, the Bihar election outcome or farm bills, there is a growing une...

Shaolin monastery Tales of a “CEO monk” obscure the business of faith in China Shaolin is the cradle of kung-fu and Zen Buddhism. Under its abbot it has opened international branches and made plans to list on the stockmarket F OR NEARLY two hours the monks sit folded in the lotus position, motionless and silent. All are robed in grey apart from the cherubic man in saffron, their leader. When the last joss-stick burns down, he glides out of the room without a word, later offering a brief exp...

John SextonPosted at 5:45 pm on December 18, 2020 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Yang Jisheng is a Chinese historian who lived through the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution as a young man. He started out as a member of the Communist Party and eventually became a reporter for a state news service. But his viewpoint changed in 1989 after he saw the Party’s crackdown on student protesters in Tiananmen Square. He used his access to primary sources as a Communist Party member and ...