Chinese soldiers carry the remains of the Russian soldiers in a martyrs' park in Mudanjiang city, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Nov. 17, 2015. The remains of seven Russian soldiers who fell in Heilongjiang Province while helping defend China against Japanese invaders in 1945 were buried...
aThousands of soldiers and civilian volunteers continue rescue and relief efforts after Monday's huge earthquake in southwestern China. Thousands of people are believed to still be buried under collapsed buildings. 数以万计战士和平民志愿者在星期一的巨大的地震以后在西南中国继续抢救和救济工作。 上千群...
And they have snapped, accidentally, dozens of those carriers’ lines, because even not-so-secret commercial lines sometimes don’t show up on utility maps. Goguen, the utility manager, estimates that the rail project has already hit three dozen lines, sometimes doing no damage and other times...
me. But the soldiers, they stood up, returned fire. Every soldier was, as far as I could tell, essentially operat- ing in their unit and fearless." Mr. Hetherington broke his ankle and had to walk a long dis- 2009 ALFRED I. DUPONT- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY tance with a 50-pound pack on...
The tun tian system originated during the Han period with soldiers converting newly conquered land into farmland whose crops were used to supply the army. Later, the tun tian system came to be applied to civilians as well, who were given land and farming implements in exchange for half their...
Chinese soldiers carry the remains of the Russian soldiers in a martyrs' park in Mudanjiang city, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Nov. 17, 2015. The remains of seven Russian soldiers who fell in Heilongjiang Province while helping defend China against Japanese invaders in 1945 were buried...