Since diplomat and imperial envoy Zhang Qian's expedition westwards more than two thousand years ago, a path connecting China and the outside world has come into being. Top 10 most valuable brands in China Companies in the technology, banking and telecom industries have dominated a list of most...
Moving is not for everyone. Almost every grandparent wants to be with his or her grandchildren and is willing to make sacrifices, but sometimes it is wiser to say no and visit frequently instead. Having your grandchildren far away is hard, especially knowing your adult child is struggling, bu...
It’s further than Brazil, about 1,600 miles from where I was, but mainly downwind westwards sailing, and, once out of the doldrums, shouldn’t have extremes of wind or sea – just inevitable rolling and an occasional squall. Hopefully I’d find a rigger or fellow sailor to help, or,...
A vessel was observed sailing directly westwards; the line cut the rigging a little above the bulwarks, which it did for several hours or until the vessel had sailed the whole distance of 40 miles. The ship coming into view from the east would have to ascend an inclined plane for 20 mil...
When men were wondering whether it was possible to reach India by sailing westwards from Europe, and whether there was any land on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Christopher Columbus decides to act. He gathered some men, invited them to go on board his three ships, and set out acr...
‘Senseless destruction,’ is a moot point. It depends where you were at the time. Russian soldiers flogging their way westwards, losing thousands of brothers a day, saw the bombing as necessary. The innocent citizens caught in the firestorm as the old town burned had a different point of ...
From there struck out westwards along the riverside, before turning right and starting the climb out towards the cafe, Rainman pushed onto the front and set an infernal pace that quickly had everyone lined out. I was hanging onto Ovis’s wheel and he was hanging onto Rainman who had his...
Night A photo-reconnaissance Spitfire having sighted a convoy consisting of one 4-5000 ton tanker and one 4-5000 ton merchant vessel rounding Cape Spartivento westwards, two torpedo-carrying Wellingtons were despatched to attack. One Wellington found and attacked the convoy five miles north of Capo...
Onwards, westwards through proper Romanian countryside. Huge fields full of wheat or sunflowers all the way to the edge of that world which is visible from a bike: The bees have to work too! The traffic this side of Corabia (or perhaps this side of lunchtime) seemed to have died off and...
Except for 1 bird that wintered off Australia and another off Argentina, all black-browed alba- trosses commuted to the Benguela Upwelling off southwestern Africa (n = 23) and later, for variable durations, westwards back into the south Atlantic Ocean (Fig. 1). Two light-mantled albatross...