Ten years ago, the young palace master, Ling Xuan, encountered a dying pair of siblings during her travels. In exchange for saving the sister, she made a ten-year pact with the brother, bringing him into the Shadow Sect of Ling Tian Palace for training. If he could survive and graduate...
Why do Western commentators look at China's Belt and Road Initiative with Cold War prejudice, calling it a modern-day version of the U.S.-led Marshall Plan for post-World War II reconstruction in Europe, or the 19th century Great Game, in which Britain and Russia battled for control in ...
, "Cabin in the Sky", "I'm Coming Virginia", and her version of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award. She was the first African-American to star on her own television show and the first African-American woman to ...
and beg to worship My boots in order properly to express it. For the ceremony itself, the slave is always immobilized in whatever way is available to Me at the time. The burning of My initials into his flesh is
In 1918, she went to study at Columbia University in the United States and then got the master’s degree in education. In 1924, she was appointed as the president of (National) Beijing Female Normal University and thus, became the first female university president in China. Her implementation...
The eminently quotable “Clueless” features Beverly Hills rich girl Cher befriending the new girl at her high school as a “project.” Cher aims to transform Tai into a version of herself, but learns along the way that not everyone wants to be Cher Horowitz. The movie upended the tradition...
The eminently quotable “Clueless” features Beverly Hills rich girl Cher befriending the new girl at her high school as a “project.” Cher aims to transform Tai into a version of herself, but learns along the way that not everyone wants to be Cher Horowitz. The movie upended the tradition...
For the first time in its 135-year history, a female has been appointed as station master at Taipei Main Station, and began duties after a handover ceremony today, February 7. During the ceremony to appoint the 25th station master of Taiwan Railway Administration’s largest train station,...
This information is derived from a larger write-up I did for an A&S Competition entry – you can read the final version of that entry in my documentation vault. The banbi was first worn by “maids of honour,” but the fashion trickled down to commoners.5 Strict families did not allow ...
I point out that Wilde didn’t only live on that bus; she also got married on it, in a secret ceremony to Tao Ruspoli, a filmmaker, photographer, and member of the Italian aristocracy, whom she divorced when the youthful relationship ran its course after eight years...