📖 Strangers from a Different Shore（1989/1998), by Ronald Takaki (1939-2009) ——一种被重复的历史感 hard life immigrants face, medical doctors work as dishwasher affirmative action: Ron Reagan glass…
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📖 Strangers from a Different Shore（1989/1998), by Ronald Takaki (1939-2009) ——一种被重复的历史感 hard life immigrants face, medical doctors work as dishwasher affirmative action: Ron Reagan glass…
The Huawai’s Apple store lookalike in Raffles City 来福士 in Chongqing, 2019. BBC Chinese authorities find 22 fake Apple stores | 12 August 2011 Fake…
The Bush House Which news outlets can we trust now? BBC is a publicly-funded British national broadcaster, and I listen to its Global News Podcast …
A Compassionate Spy (2022) is a documentary on Soviet spy Theodore Hall (1925-99), and his unrepentant wife. Compassionate isn’t a right word for Hall. Born…
A new movie, Dead to Rights 南京照相馆, about Rape of Nanjing (1938-9). 老梁 Lao Liang on youtube tells the story how the pix were smuggled…
Checking on Treaty of Wanghia (Wangxia), saw an unfamiliar item, listing first: Type Bilateral / Unequal Googling how many unequal treaties did Qing china sign,…
why did nyc lost 2012 olympics bid The AI’s point of view is in line with Marc Dunkelman’s: New York City lost the 2012 Summer…
Learned something new today: waiting online because of too many concert goers that I’ll have to wait to enter their website, seriously. “We are currently…
Three times New York City mayor and founder of Bloomberg News, Michael Bloomberg (1942-) had run for president in 2020 as demo, but didn’t go…
I read Hillbilly Elegy when it was published in 2016: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance (1984-). He’s from…