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- 351: David Livingstone
- ... a deeply religious man, wanted him to go into a religious field, and would not allow him to go. Livingstone eventually convinced his father to let him go to school and become a missionary in China. After finishing school, Livingstone had planned to go to China to perform his missionary duties, but because of the Opium War, Livingstone s plans were altered. He continued his studies, and became a respected member of the medical community. Soon though, he offered his services ...
- 352: Angel Island
- ... America could cost fifty dollars, but at the pinnacle of the Gold Rush frenzy, captains and agents would price the trip at two-hundred dollars or more. There were less than a hundred people from China by 1853; however, the large influxes began in 1854, where thirteen-thousand immigrants traveled by ship in search of gold. It was not until these great influxes that Americans started to notice their Far East ... Chinese dominated was the washing of laundry. Because of all the ethnic antagonism in mines, factories, and fields, 1,000s of Chinese were forced into self-employment. There was no such thing as laundry in China so the Chinese had to learn from the women of America when working as domestic servants. A laundry establishment could be opened with only seventy-five to two hundred dollars. All one needed was a ...
- 353: Truth and Consequences: Taking Advantage of the Loser of WWI
- ... only small concessions, the German delegates signed on June 28, 1919. When Wilson was notified that his Fourteen Points had been shot down by the other power players at the peace conference, he was outraged. China, along with the United States were not at first included among those nations making peace with Germany. China objected to the cession to Japan of rights in the province of Shantung. On November 19, 1919 and again on March 19, 1920, the United States Senate rejected the act ratifying the Treaty of Versailles ...
- 354: Teenage Parenthood
- ... present in only a few varieties of cannabis and in much smaller quantities. A native of central Asia, cannabis may have been cultivated as much as ten thousand years ago. It was certainly cultivated in China by 4000 B.C. and in Turkestan by 3000 B.C. It has long since been used as a medicine in China, Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and India for malaria, constipation, rheumatic pins, absent-mindedness , and female problems , to quicken the mind, to induce sleep, dysentery and fevers. The medical use of cannabis was already ...
- 355: Economic Espionage
- ... money. John walker head of the notorious Walker spie ring, sold submarine secretes to the Soviets for 17 years for one million dollars. Larry Wu-Tai Chin and analyst of the CIA, passed secrets to China and was paid $180,000 over a three year period. Richard Miller worked for the FBI and was to be paid 2 million dollars to pass counter-intelligence secrets to the Soviets, but he was ... The Korean intelligence service is called the National Security Planning Agency and is active around the world providing a variety of intelligence and espionage services to Korean interests. South Korean agents operate in North Korea, China and the Soviet Union, but the United States and Japan is were they are most active. US intelligence sources have bee heard to say that the NSP is more effective than Israelis Mossad. The NSP ...
- 356: Wake Island
- ... died during the sixteen-day siege of Wake. On January 12, 1942, approximately 1200 American prisoners of war were loaded on board the Japanese passenger ship, the Nitta Maru, for the twelve-day voyage to China. Twenty of the wounded passengers were dropped off in Japan while five of the Americans were beheaded while aboard ship. The prisoners arrived at Shanghai on January 24 and were immediately taken to Woosung camp ... Commander Winfield Scott Cunningham. Shad McClosky (Albert Dekker) is the construction crew boss, who in real life was Dan Teters, an employee of Morrison-Knudsen. Teters, along with Commander Cunningham, escaped from prison camp in China in 1944, only to be recaptured and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. The United States subsequently awarded Dan Teters with one of its highest honors, the Bronze Star. The films Lieutenant Cameron ...
- 357: Around The World In 80 Days
- ... continues without Passepartout, unaware the steamer changed schedules and left hours prior to his arrival. He hires the Tankadere, to take him to Shanghai to catch the steamer he missed, while Passepartout is lost in China. Fogg makes it to Japan after catching the steamer in Shanghai and finds Passepartout in a circus, after he desperately tries to find a job to pay for a meal. They continue to America on ... forty miles per hour to Chicago. At Chicago, Fogg hires an express train made of seven locomotives to go to New York as quickly as possible. On arriving at New York, the party discovers the China has left forty five minutes prior. Out of desperation, Fogg hires a merchant ship, the Henrietta, to take him to Bordeaux, instead of Liverpool. The rugged and rude captain, Captain Speedy, is, instead, taken prisoner ...
- 358: Fishing
- ... over the continental shelves of Iceland and Norway, and the Barents Sea; in the North Pacific, specifically the Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska, and the coastal areas around Japan; and off the coasts of China and Malaysia. Other important fishing grounds are found off the coasts of the southeastern United States, Chile, Peru, Argentina, and the Falkland Islands, and off the coasts of Namibia and South Africa. More than one ... weighing up to 45 kg, these are later reprocessed on shore into individual portions. Some ships may also have facilities for drying and grinding fish into fish meal. MAJOR FISHING COUNTRIES By the early 1990s, China had emerged as the nation with the largest fish catches, totalling 16.5 million US tons in 1992. The Chinese catch is largely from fish farming. Japan is second, with about 9.4 million US ...
- 359: World Populations and Development
- ... Among the five most populated countries of the world Indonesia has the lowest life expectancy; life expectancy in Africa is almost the same as in Indonesia. - Among the five most populated countries of the world China has the lowest per capita income; more than half of the African nations have a per capita income lower than in China. The average, however, is about twice as high due to a few mineral rich countries.
- 360: Copyrights And Patents
- ... apply for a copyright in order to be able to sue for fraud. Images that are not copyrighted are in the public domain. Also, copyrights expire 50 years after the creators death. (Baer 163) China plays a major role in copyright piracy. Officials estimate that China exports about $827 million dollars a year of impostor products. An example of this is shampoo with a familiar American brand label, but containing different ingredients than the US versions. This can sometimes lead to ...
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