2019年10月31日 星期四

沖繩首里城大火,正殿、北殿、南殿等均被燒毀


Japan's Shuri Castle, a UNESCO world heritage site, has been decimated by a huge fire
【見證琉球王國血淚歷史的首里王城】
在今天慘遭大火吞噬的沖繩首里城,是世界遺產之一。對當地居民而言,它就如同神明般的存在。首里城自1609年,琉球王國遭日本薩摩藩入侵開始,就一直見證琉球民族的血淚史....


5 時間前 - fire has broken out at Japan's Shuri Castle on the island of Okinawa, Japan's national broadcasting organization NHK reported Wednesday.

沖繩首里城大火,正殿、北殿、南殿等均被燒毀。
琉球王國象徵、也是世界文化遺產的首里城曾做為日幣2000元紙鈔圖像,用以紀念2000年沖繩名護市舉行的G8八國領袖高峰會。
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沖繩首里城大火,正殿、北殿、南殿等均被燒毀。

琉球王國象徵、也是世界文化遺產的首里城曾做為日幣2000元紙鈔圖像,用以紀念2000年沖繩名護市舉行的G8八國領袖高峰會。
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2019年10月30日 星期三

Kenya and the richness of its 44 communities. China takes on mammoth task of rebuilding ‘lunatic line’



From the cradle of mankind to the superheroes of today, discover Kenya and the richness of its 44 communities. Follow the link: g.co/kenyanculture


Republic of Kenya

Jamhuri ya Kenya (Swahili)
Motto: "Harambee(Swahili)
"Let us all pull together"
Anthem: "Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"
(English: "O God of all creation")
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Location of Kenya (dark blue) in the African Union (light blue)
Location of Kenya (dark blue)
in the African Union (light blue)
Location of Kenya
Capital
and largest city
Nairobi
1°16′S 36°48′E
Official languages
National languageSwahili[1]
Ethnic groups 
(2018[2])
Demonym(s)Kenyan
GovernmentUnitary presidential constitutional republic
• President
Uhuru Kenyatta
William Ruto
Kenneth Lusaka
Justin Muturi
David Maraga
Paul Kihara Kariuki
LegislatureParliament
Senate
National Assembly
Independence
• from the United Kingdom
12 December 1963
• Republic declared
12 December 1964
Area
• Total
580,367 km2 (224,081 sq mi)[3][4] (48th)
• Water (%)
2.3
Population
• 2019 estimate
49,364,325[5] (28th)
• 2009 census
38,610,097[6]
• Density
78/km2 (202.0/sq mi) (124th)
GDP (PPP)2019 estimate
• Total
$190.182 billion[7]
• Per capita
$3,868 [8]
GDP (nominal)2019 estimate
• Total
$99.246 billion [8]
• Per capita
$2,010 [8]
Gini (2014)42.5[9]
medium · 48th
HDI (2017)Increase 0.590[10]
medium · 142nd
CurrencyKenyan shilling (KES)
Time zoneUTC+3 (EAT)
Date formatdd/mm/yy (AD)
Driving sideleft
Calling code+254
ISO 3166 codeKE
Internet TLD.ke
[2] According to the CIA, estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of mortality because of AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex, than would otherwise be expected.



非洲的鐵路,一向被人民用來作為抗議的對象。烏干達鐵路在維多利亞時代素有「瘋狂鐵路線」(the Lunatic Line)的暱稱,因為該線建設成本不斷加碼,再加上鐵道員工遭到獅群攻擊,導致誤點嚴重。興建肯亞鐵路線的工人在 1910 年發動了該國首度的罷工事件,一千名工人延著鐵道步行到奈洛比抗議薪水太少。


China takes on mammoth task of rebuilding ‘lunatic line’

Uganda Railway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Uganda Railway, colloquially known as the Lunatic Express or the Lunatic Line, is a railway system and former railway company dating to the colonial ...

More than 2,000 lives were lost during the construction of the narrow gauge railway, which still carves a path through modern day Kenya
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Jerome Starkey Nairobi
Last updated at 12:01AM, November 29 2013



When British imperialists with dreams of linking the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa to the source of the Nile in Uganda began forging a railway inland from the coast, its spiralling costs and staggering human toll soon led critics to call it the “lunatic line.”

Building the 600 miles of narrow gauge railway, which still carves a path through modern day Kenya, claimed more than 2,000 lives between 1895 and 1901 as legions of indentured labourers grappled with malarial swamps and man-eating lions at the height of Europe’s scramble for Africa.

Now, with a more subtl

伊甸園位於博茨瓦納 Botswana北部

Present-day human mitogenomes can be traced back to a single woman, nicknamed Mitochondrial Eve. New research suggests Eden was in northern Botswana
當今的人類有絲分裂基因組可以追溯到單身女性,綽號線粒體夏娃。 新研究表明伊甸園位於博茨瓦納北部

波札那共和國

  • Republic of Botswana
    (英語)

  • Lefatshe la Botswana
    (茨瓦納語)
通稱:波札那
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國旗國徽

國家格言:"Pula"(茨瓦納語
「降水」
國歌:《保佑這高尚的土地
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自然地理(實際管轄區)
  • 國土面積:581,730平方公里(世界第48名
  • 水域率:2.58%