Category: BP Geographic History
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The Sea-Wet Rock
Out there at the coast of southern China are a group of islands and a peninsula which British seafarers found suitable to colonialise when they arrived there in the 19th century. At that time a small fishermen’s village, it soon grew to a town, then a city, and since the…
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Harbour With Two Entrances
“Hong Kong was chosen by the Englishmen as the location of their settlement with the kind of insight that’s typical for the British. The island on which northern side it is located is mountainous and has a circumference of about eighteen till twenty English miles. Its position has the advantage…
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Former Kowloon Canton Railway Clock Tower
The site of the former Kowloon Station of the Kowloon Canton Railway. The Clock Tower was finished in 1915, and the whole Kowloon Station in March 1916, not as stated on Wikipedia in 1910, in fact on 1 October 1910 the Kowloon Canton Railway began operating its British section, most…
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Protecting The Emperor
Protecting the emperor for other two thousand years can cause headaches, if you have a head. Some soldiers appear a bit headless… In fact the bodies and heads of the terracotta warriors were created separately and put together. Every face is unique and an exact copy of a real soldier
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Clovis Not First
There are new findings in Brazil which show that there were humans much earlier than according to the established theory. According to the Clovis First theory people migrated from Asia via the Bering Straight to North America and from there to South America. That was when the ice sheets melted…
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Chinese Wall Construction
Why is the Chinese Wall still there? It seems to be an unusual question but normally brick constructions should only last one hundred years, and the Chinese Wall in its current state was built during the early Ming dynasty in the 15th century. The reason is not the bricks, they…
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Palace Of The Republic
The Palace of the Republic (Palast der Republik) in Berlin was the seat of the parliament of the GDR or DDR, the German Democratic Republic, the communistic country of East Germany which existed from 1949 till 1990. The Palace was constructed in 1976 and was demolished between 2006 and 2008.…
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The Traveller Karl May
Karl May wrote traveling stories in which he was a westman in America called Old Shatterhand as well as a traveller in Northern Africa and the Middle East called Kara Ben Nemsi, although he has never really been to those places at the time he wrote the stories. Some people…
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Simplicity And Progress
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, and in the past life was closer to that than nowadays. People still had style and were aiming for advances in many areas, and while the first is diminishing the latter is reaching levels of complexity which can be too much. In the past people…
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