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Save this story for later. Gum Shan. Gold Mountain. That was what the people in Guangdong Province called the faraway land where the native population had red hair and blue eyes, and it was rumored that gold nuggets could be plucked from the ground. According to an account in the San Francisco Chronicle, a merchant visiting from Canton, the provincial capital likely soon after the discovery of gold at Sutter Creek, in 1848 wrote to a friend back home about the riches that he had found in the mountains of California. The friend told others and set off across the Pacific Ocean himself. Whether from the merchant’s letter, or from ships arriving in Hong Kong, news of California’s gold rush swept through southern China. Men began scraping together funds, often using their family’s land as collateral for loans, and crowding aboard vessels that took as long as three months to reach America. They eventually arrived in the thousands. Some came in search of gold; others were ....
MSI Gaming Australia MSI Summit Series offers peak performance and looks Credit: MSI Australia MSI is targeting even greater success in 2021 with its new Summit series 2-in-1 laptops. The MSI Summit E13 Flip Evo is already a Best of the CES 2021 winner while the MSI Summit E16 Flip convertible claimed a CES Innovation Award. Unveiled at a special event, MSIology: Determined to Succeed in 2021, the new devices target the business user whether they are in the office or working remotely. MSI wants to provide the most flexible, mobile, versatile machines in this highly competitive market. MSI Notebook product management director, Iris Chang, said at the launch, “As the famous author, Arthur C. Clarke, once said, any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.” ....
Subject: The Review: The Nightmare of History Is this a plea for historians to be granted some of the moral authority of the traumatized, of the survivor? That s Michael Roth, a historian and president of Wesleyan University, commenting on Can Historians Be Traumatized by History?, an article recently published in The New Republic. Based on that headline, I was initially sympathetic to Roth s skepticism. But the article, by James Robins, moved me. It begins with the story of Iris Chang, the historian whose book The Rape of Nanking (1997) Robins credits with resurrecting for a new generation the half-forgotten savagery unleashed on Chinese citizens by the Japanese Imperial Army in 1937. Chang s research required numberless hours absorbed in accounts of murder, rape, torture, mutilation. Especially crucial were her videotaped interviews with traumatized survivors. ....
Seventy-six years ago today the Soviet Red Army’s 100th Division liberated the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. There were somewhere between 7000 and 9000 prisoners left in the camp when the Soviet soldiers liberated it. The camp’s crematoria had been destroyed as well as most of the gas chambers. The SS had evacuated most of the surviving inmates and slave laborers by forced march to railhead miles away from the camp, in order to take them to other Concentration Camps deeper in Germany; Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Ravensbruck, and others. Even though Auschwitz was liberated, the Nazis continued to exterminate Jews at other camps. Likewise in vain attempts to cover up their crimes and keep killing Jews through forced labor conducted forced marches in freezing winter weather to keep them from being liberated. These marches were both deadly and inhuman. Even ....
Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote, “Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.” Back in 2010 I had a creditable and very specific death threat from a Neo-Nazi in East Tennessee. The man had a formidable internet presence, many publications online, including articles on how best to assassinate people. So I did my research, figured out who he was and reported him to the FBI. A week later his internet presence disappeared. I don’t know what happened to him, but I watch my back. Over the past few days I have been helping a Jewish friend who is dealing with many Neo-Nazi threats and harassment for supporting an effort to have headstones replaced at the San Antonio Military Cemetery. The headstones were of German POWs but each had a Swastika and the words “he died for his Fuhrer and Fatherland” on them. The fact is that such words and symbols are not allowed by the German Government on the graves of their WWII soldie ....