The Great Wall you may not know about By Hu Dongmei in Yinchuan and Ye Zizhen | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-03-02 17:18 Share CLOSE
Shizuishan in Northwest China s Ningxia Hui autonomous region is home to many Great Wall segments that are not widely known.
Built during Emperor Jiajing s reign during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the Great Wall section in Shizuishan s Dawukou district extends more than 43 kilometers. It has 18 smoke towers and 75 wall fragments.
Li Zhigang, a resident of Shizuishan, noted that the wall in this area played an important role as a military bulwark against the Tartars.
Li used drones to record a variety of views of the Great Wall section.
CONWAY â Despite limited ski area ticket sales and restrictions on restaurant seating due to the pandemic, Mount Washington Valley businesses still described the two February vacation weeks (President s Day vacation week, followed by New Hampshire vacation week) as busy with increased traffic, sales and bookings. The fact that regular snow falls kept local areas with great conditions for skiers and riders certainly didn t hurt.
Last year at this time, nervousness about the brand-new coronavirus was just beginning to flare. Yet the February vacation weeks were still strong.
Fast forward to 2021. Lodging members of the chamber weighed into the survey with mostly positive comments. In fact, Christopher Bellis, co-owner of the Cranmore Inn in North Conway, was featured in a story on WMUR-Channel 9 about what a strong vacation week the valley had.
Photographer sues D.C., says she was shot in eye by rubber bullet during May protests
Justin Wm. Moyer, The Washington Post
March 2, 2021
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Civil rights advocates march in Washington on June 6, 2020.Photo for The Washington Post by Astrid Riecken
WASHINGTON - Three women, including a photographer who said she lost vision after being shot with a rubber bullet, sued the District of Columbia and its former police chief last week for injuries they say they suffered at a May protest after the death of George Floyd.
After Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis police on May 25, protesters flooded D.C., staging marches that occasionally turned violent amid clashes with police.
Vernon Jordan made being a Black man in America look effortless
Robin Givhan, The Washington Post
March 2, 2021
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Vernon Jordan came from humble beginnings and grew up in a segregated America, yet he moved through the world in the manner of someone who owned it. He was a Black man who knew what it meant to be called the n-word, not in a burst of anger but with cruel nonchalance. He knew what it meant to be underestimated.
In response to these indignities, he used his physical presence - his formidable height, his confident bearing, his politicized skin tone and his pitch-perfect style - to rise above those who would insult his humanity.
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Beijing, Mar 3 (Prensa Latina) China topped the list of countries globally with the highest number of billionaires in 2020, totaling 992 citizens with very high fortunes, according to an international report issued on Tuesday in Beijing.