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4. Would any English help me with this? Thanks! Is this correct in English?

May 18, 2012 / / 3 Comments

Question by Asian angel: 4. Would any English help me with this? Thanks! Is this correct in English?
Thanks for your help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Though Kaiyuan is not outstanding as a tourist city, its name spreads among travelers nationwide because of the rime. The rime on the Lujiang River is one of four natural wonders in China, enjoying equal fame as Guilin Mountains and Streams, Yunnan Stone Forest and the Three Gorges on the Yangtze River do. The rime, also called “snow willow”, “tree hanging”, “ice flowers”, “water vaporized flowers”, “silver flowers”, is a kind of phenomenon, in which winter fog condenses on the branches and leaves of trees to form separate, white ice crystals, according to metrology.]
Oh, dear! I have to face thouse stuff every day, and it’s so obscure, even native speakers can not correct them. Damn~~~~~~
You will see the Rime in these pics:
http://www.abettera.net/francisslides/JilinRime/jilinrime08.jpg

http://www.abettera.net/francisslides/JilinRime/jilinrime03.jpg

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Answer by **MCR’s DaRkLiNg Of RoCk**
Einstein corrected!

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what would a traumatized soldier do in this situation?

May 14, 2012 / / 2 Comments

Question by Jw Crabtree: what would a traumatized soldier do in this situation?
okay i am writing a book and in it there is this a traumatized soldier, after he leaves the military, years later he is hired to take and protect this 14 year old boy, who has received several threats against his life, from his school in china to his home in boston, when certain event force them to take a cruise liner instead of flying they get into a fight and the man greatly insults the boy, which then leads the young boy to show his true talents and attack the barriers the man set up in his mind to cope with the traumatic events he experienced in service, while he tries to escape he is unable due to being miles from any kind of land, if he runs the boy will follow, he cannot assault the boy due to what he is being payed and he does not want to get arrested, all the while he is still attacking his mental barriers trying to rip them down one by one, so my question is how would a traumatized soldier react to this? what would he say? where would he go if he was trapped on a cruise liner in the middle of the ocean?

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Answer by LarrySmile
YO Crabtree!

Why are you giving out the plot of your book?
Don’t you know that other writers will steal it – your ideas and finish and copyright the book before you?

If you want to co-write the book with me for a percentage of the royalties, contact me.

Best wishes,

Larry Smith
Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Ret.)
First Sergeant

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Q&A: Someone told me. Is this true?

May 1, 2012 / / 5 Comments

Question by : Someone told me. Is this true?
the US and its allies(UK,Australia,S.Korea,Japan,Canada… and the others) got into a war with China and its Allies(Russia,North Korea, and Vietnam). Now in this their are know nuclear weapons, or WMDs. Russia would split into(a side with China and a side with NATO), The war would be in Asia and Europe, the war would be at a stalemate, and both sides would put up mass AA batteries, large minefields and Pill Boxes, Anti-tank systems that Trench warfare would return and mass slaughter would come back, tactics would be back to charges and being mowed down. The Trenches would be more dangerous with mass aircraft falling from the skies(both sides would stop using aircraft for a while). Morale and shell-shock would be high for both sides, with a never-ending war, fought in an unconventional way, with conventional weapons. Both sides only gaining a few yards after months of fighting. What do you think of this Scenario?

And

The US CIA and secret service subvert the economies of China and Russia with counterfeit money. Israel attacks the nuclear sites in Iran
without US permission to fly over Iraq instead they secretly get Saudi Arabia to allow them to fly over their space. Iran turns Hezbollah towards the Jewish homeland and they unleash a mass of rocket propelled bombs in a guerrilla fashion raking havoc all over proper Israel. Iran sends its air force to bomb Israel and is totally outclassed and none of its planes return. Israeli leaders threaten nuclear attack against any nation that sets foot on Israeli soil, sends missiles into Israel territory, or aids another nation that does so, including Russia and China, Israel loses a lot of planes, but gets a lot of bda and its all good the bunker busters are working. Iran begins to mass troops in Syria with the support of southern Iraq leader AL Sadr, Israel aware of the buildup prepares its nuclear neutron cruise missiles and scatters its nuclear bomber fleet, at this stage the US nuclear submarines on full alert with all assets focused on Iran and Russia. North Korean leader dies, son is ceremonially installed and immediately attacks south Korea. Unable to defend Seoul the western leaders agree that Pyongyang must be eliminated and the north Korean military led out into the open and destroyed also, all with nukes and so we begin, as
china views unwelcome a nuclear disaster and human refugee on its southern border a new capitalist united Korea is too much so china
nukes south Korea and Tokyo and threatens the Us to stay out of Asia permanently, forces surround Israel, and as they move in for the coup DE grace, Israel sends dozens of nuclear missiles out and Moscow is destroyed along with several large Russian cities and Iranian Syrian also completely wiped out, Us sends a shock wave over china that kills every living human and animal on the continent, weapons of mass destruction take on new meaning as Russia goes to retaliate all their missiles are electronically jammed and cant be used, Russian aircraft are being shot out of the sky but some get through and western cites are nuked including tel av iv London new york, and Us decides to eliminate Russia also with a weapon of mass destruction, its Armageddon. life as we know it is never the same again.

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Answer by Blue Falcon
I cant believe you wasted that much time writing that.

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can you give me your opinion about this?

April 28, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Question by : can you give me your opinion about this?
From sea otters to blue whales, marine mammals are under stress from climate change, ocean acidification, hunting and other threats. Researchers have identified 20 important sites around the world where they say conservation efforts should concentrate.

Marine mammals are widely distributed in the oceans and some freshwater locations, but 11 of the conservation sites are home to creatures found nowhere else, according to the study led by Sandra Pompa of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Researchers dubbed those sites “irreplaceable” and added that the nine others selected include representatives of 84 percent of all marine mammals.

Currently the most endangered marine mammal is the vaquita, a porpoise that lives in the northern section of the Gulf of California, Pompa said.

The 11 sites deemed irreplaceable were the Hawaiian Islands, Galapagos Islands, Amazon River, San Felix and Juan Fernandez Islands off the coast of Chile, Mediterranean Sea, Caspian Sea, Lake Baikal in Russia, Yangtze River, Indus River, Ganges River and the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean.

In addition, the nine sites picked for their species richness were along the coasts of Baja California, much of the eastern coast of the Americas (the Atlantic coast of the U.S. and including coastal areas of Cuba, Hispaniola, Colombia and Venezuela), Peru, Argentina, Northwestern Africa, South Africa, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

The findings in the study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, will be valuable as a conservation tool for organizations and governments that want to focus on endangered species, Pompa said.

At least three species – the Caribbean monk seal, Atlantic gray whale and Steller’s sea cow – became extinct because of hunting for their fur, blubber and meat during the 19th and 20th centuries, the researchers noted. The most recent extinction, declared in 2008, was the baiji, a type of porpoise, from the Yangtze River in China.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/01/3050094/study-shows-best-places-to-protect.html#ixzz1US88gHRE

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Answer by Cecil
I think your science is flawed and that you rhetoric belongs elsewhere.

There, now you have my opinion.

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Will the US launch a premptive strike on North Korea? What do you think about this article I found?

April 25, 2012 / / 4 Comments

Question by Chris G: Will the US launch a premptive strike on North Korea? What do you think about this article I found?
* With American forces bogged down in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, will Obama move towards a preemptive first strike on North Korea? This could mean the employment of tactical nuclear war heads to destroy military objectives. This piece by Turner Radio Network is probably highly speculative. But who knows?

North Korea yesterday withdrew from the Armistice that halted the Korean War. Today, official Washington is abuzz with not so secret “Top Secret” plans for the United States to make a limited nuclear first strike to wipe out the North Korean threat in one fell swoop.

Russia has been alerted to “make plans” for radiation fallout in its eastern border area. In consultations with China, the U.S. Ambassador to Beijing was said to be stunned when he was told by the Chinese government “Kim Jung Il is out of control and dangerous. He has become a serious liability for China. Do what must be done, but please do it in a manner that minimizes risk to China.”

China was then briefed about US plans and asked to prepare its southern population areas for radiation fallout. It is expected that prevailing weather patterns will disperse fallout over the sea, causing it to thin out dramatically before moving over land.

Worst development since World War 2
Our source in the State Department explained today why this situation got so bad, so fast. “The Korean War legally never ended.” he said. “There is no peace treaty, there is only an Armistice, a formal cease-fire. When North Korea officially withdrew from the Armistice yesterday, it automatically brought us back into a hot war. “he continued.

Speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media, the high ranking state department source told Turner Radio Network (TRN):

“Of all the scenarios involving North Korea, withdrawing from the Armistice was the one thing we thought they never would do. Since the War, everyone has known that withdrawing from the Armistice means the cease-fire is over. Today, that cease fire is over; we are back at war with North Korea and this time, the outcome will not be negotiated. Withdrawing from the Armistice was the last mistake North Korea will ever make. Their leadership must surrender now or they are nothing more than dead men walking. It’s over for them” he finished.

Pentagon: Nuclear first strike “Likely”
Early in the evening on Tuesday, President Barack Obama gave permission for the US Military to airlift “Patriot Missile Air Defense” systems to South Korea and additional units to bolster 16 systems already in Japan. Those systems were airborne hours later and arrived in South Korea and Japan today.

The model of Patriot Missile systems sent is “PAC-3″ and they were accompanied by M-901 control stations and AN/MPQ-53 phased array radar. Sources with acute knowledge of the plans for North Korea have confirmed to TRN that a US nuclear first strike is going to be launched.

The first strike will be carried out through submarine-launched, BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles, model TLAM/A whose explosive payload can be “dialed” to be anywhere from 100 kilotons to one point five megatons nuclear yield per missile.

There will be no warning. North Korea will not be able to track the incoming cruise missiles via radar. The only way they will know the attack is taking place is when they see a blinding white flash as the temperature rises to ten thousand degrees and the wind gusts to 650 miles per hour.

North Korean troops along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) will be hit first to prevent them from invading south Korea. Multiple cruise missiles using Time of Arrival (TOA) control will detonate simultaneously along the DMZ, wiping out over one million North Korean troops in seconds.

Minutes later, after the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) confirms that the North Korean leadership has been told by their own command structure that their troops at the DMZ have all been killed, Kim Jung Il will be contacted and asked if he is willing to surrender. It is expected he will not.

At that point, a B-2 Stealth Bomber will be sent in to deliver the final blow. Pyongyang will be hit with a surface detonation of a massive nuclear bomb, wiping out the entire city and the entire government of North Korea.

As soon as that surface detonation takes place, several hundred additional cruise missiles carrying conventional payloads and launched from land, air and sea sites, will hit every North Korean military facility in the entire country, instantly crippling their entire command and control system. Carrier based Aircraft will then fly in to clean up whatever resistance remains.

It is expected the war will be over within one or two days. Korea will be reunited. It’s Capitol will be Seou
I had the same thought, bewildered… Maybe I shouldn’t spread it.
Turner Radio Network. It my have no validity, but it sure does sound informed, doesn’t it?

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Answer by Joseph the Second
No. We’re already up to Our Necks in two other Wars in the Middle East… Somebody ELSE is going to have to “step up to the plate”- to put N. Korea in its “Place”. My “bet” is on China- who is becoming increasingly Unhappy with N. Korea’s “Acting Out…” China has become a Major “Player” in the Business World… -And N. Korea’s “Saber Rattling” looks to be very BAD- for Business… ! 🙂

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Is this the world’s most crowded swimming pool?

April 23, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Question by : Is this the world’s most crowded swimming pool?
When my partner heard about this the question was: Do you suppose anyone peed in that pool?

Is that going to get me kicked off?

By Mail Foreign Service

Last updated at 8:00 PM on 20th July 2009

There was barely enough room to tread water as thousands of swimmers crowded into a pool in an attempt to escape China’s scorching heatwave.

But the fact there was no elbow room was not going to stop the fun in the world’s most populous nation.

Families desperate to escape the heat grabbed their rubber rings to jostle for space at a local pool in Nanjing, the capital of the Jiangsu Province.

Swimmers still manage to smile despite being crammed into a swimming pool in Nanjing, China, as a heatwave sweeps across the country

Rubber ring to rubber ring: Swimmers still manage to smile despite being crammed into a swimming pool in Nanjing, China, as a heatwave sweeps across the country

A heatwave has blasted many parts of China with temperatures reaching a sweltering 40 degrees.

China residents also resorted to jumping into the polluted Yangtze river to cool off.

The country is now bracing for extreme weather, with strong gales and soaring temperatures in recent weeks serving as harbingers of disasters to come.

Rainstorms have already wreaked havoc on southern parts of China leaving dozens people dead or missing and forcing many more to evacuate their homes.

Temperatures reached as high as 40 degrees forcing many Chinese to seek relief in swimming pools and even the polluted Yangtze river

Cooling off: Temperatures reached as high as 40 degrees forcing many Chinese to seek relief in swimming pools and even the polluted Yangtze river

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1200986/Is-worlds-crowded-swimming-pool-Thousands-try-escape-Chinas-scorching-heatwave.html#ixzz0Lqn4mcqD

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1200986/Is-worlds-crowded-swimming-pool-Thousands-try-escape-Chinas-scorching-heatwave.html

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Answer by Lisa
It’s not a nice question.

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Q&A: Is this the world’s most crowded swimming pool II?

April 22, 2012 / / 0 Comments

Question by : Is this the world’s most crowded swimming pool II?
When my partner heard about this the question was: Do you suppose anyone peed in that pool?

Is that going to get me kicked off?

By Mail Foreign Service

Last updated at 8:00 PM on 20th July 2009

There was barely enough room to tread water as thousands of swimmers crowded into a pool in an attempt to escape China’s scorching heatwave.

But the fact there was no elbow room was not going to stop the fun in the world’s most populous nation.

Families desperate to escape the heat grabbed their rubber rings to jostle for space at a local pool in Nanjing, the capital of the Jiangsu Province.

Swimmers still manage to smile despite being crammed into a swimming pool in Nanjing, China, as a heatwave sweeps across the country

Rubber ring to rubber ring: Swimmers still manage to smile despite being crammed into a swimming pool in Nanjing, China, as a heatwave sweeps across the country

A heatwave has blasted many parts of China with temperatures reaching a sweltering 40 degrees.

China residents also resorted to jumping into the polluted Yangtze river to cool off.

The country is now bracing for extreme weather, with strong gales and soaring temperatures in recent weeks serving as harbingers of disasters to come.

Rainstorms have already wreaked havoc on southern parts of China leaving dozens people dead or missing and forcing many more to evacuate their homes.

Temperatures reached as high as 40 degrees forcing many Chinese to seek relief in swimming pools and even the polluted Yangtze river

Cooling off: Temperatures reached as high as 40 degrees forcing many Chinese to seek relief in swimming pools and even the polluted Yangtze river

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1200986/Is-worlds-crowded-swimming-pool-Thousands-try-escape-Chinas-scorching-heatwave.html

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Answer by Sherry
Peeing is part of pooling.

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I don’t think 0bama is for this, but?

April 9, 2012 / / 4 Comments

Question by Randa: I don’t think 0bama is for this, but?
What if Israel Strikes Iran from the Air?

By Ed Timperlake

With Russia and China slow-rolling any meaningful Iranian sanctions, a fundamental question being left out of the current debate about stopping Iran’s quest for a nuclear weapon is this: What could happen after the Israeli Air Force (IAF) takes out Iranian weapon sites?

America, working through the United Nations, has been trying to initiate sanctions to stop Iran’s nuclear weapon programs. Our efforts have proven to be rather ineffectual but probably delayed imports of some major state-of-the art weapons from Russia, China and North Korea.

But to Israel it must appear the world does not take very seriously two famous words – “never again!”

When the IAF attacks, Iranian leaders have promised to unleash their missile force. Some intermediate-range ballistic missiles have a high probability of getting through anti-missile defenses and hitting Israeli population centers.

The 620-mile-range Iranian Shahab-3, a derivative of the North Korean No-dong series, is a powerful and dangerous missile. Like the V-2 barrage on London during World War II, innocent people will suffer but the nation will survive, and once an intermediate-range ballistic missile inventory is depleted, that threat is over and unless replenished, it ends.

In an attack against hardened Iranian ground targets, the IAF will first have to neutralize Iranian air defenses, including Iran’s air force. Iran’s current air order of battle includes a mix of Russian, French, Chinese and U.S. design systems, though the actual number of combat-effective aircraft is a guess because of the lack of spare parts and limited insight into the training and tactics of Iranian fighter pilots. However, even older Iranian F-4s, F-14s, MiGs and Sukhois can make a nasty hash of Persian Gulf targets.

So the big unanswered question is: What do Russia, China and North Korea do to help their client? Does an IAF attack lead them to race in and provide arms to help Iran?

The great untold story of the Yom Kippur War of 1973 was President Nixon turning on the spigot of U.S. military aid to make sure Israel survived, including the stripping of U.S. squadrons of jets and sending them to Israel, almost overnight. So there is a very real potential that the Russians, Chinese and North Koreans will take a page from history and re-equip Iran.

With an IAF strike, the United States will have a huge military role independent of any involvement in the initial attack because America will immediately be blamed by Iran and also vilified in the “Arab street.”

The U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor, the world’s best fighter, will be needed and can make a huge difference. Hopefully, F-22s can be immediately on station over Iraq, Afghanistan and every other high value Middle East target. Do we have enough?

Naval air power from aircraft carrier strikes groups will have their hands full protecting sea lines of communication. Mine warfare will be a huge challenge because insurance companies may shut down their tanker clients until mines are swept. Allied navies and the U.S. Navy also will have to neutralize a significant Iranian cruise missile threat, many of which were supplied by China.

Do the United States and our NATO allies have enough troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to beat back an Iranian-instigated ground attack using whatever fanatical forces they can mobilize? The number of these forces is anyone’s guess because Iran can pull the trigger on a lot of fanatics, including mobilizing its terrorist clients, Hezbollah and Hamas.

So the day after an IAF strike there is the potential need for enough U.S. military forces to engage the fight simultaneously both with conventional and unconventional forces. How long this will go on is a great unknown.

With the very real possibility of their citizens being killed in Iran at weapons sites, airfields and surface-to-air missile sites, Russian, Chineseand North Korean leaders and their citizens will not be happy with Israel, the United States and NATO. If any or all of those countries decide for whatever reason to overtly or covertly help Iran, events have the potential to really spin out of control.

But if those three nations do not help Iran, and Iran has its air order of battle destroyed and intermediate missiles depleted, then the world and specifically the Middle East will ultimately be much safer. And regardless of the effectiveness in stopping military weapons flowing into Iran after an IAF strike, America and Europe will still have a very significant, dedicated and smart Iranian-instigated terrorist problem.

• Ed Timperlake is a former Marine Corps fighter pilot who recently served as director of technology assessment for international technology security within the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Copyright 2009 The Washington Times, LLC

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/22/timperlake-what-if-israel-strikes-iran-from-

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Answer by A
He wont let them and if they do, then they will be on their own, Just like our TROOPS in AFGHANISTAN ARE RIGHT NOW !!!!

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hey this is for anyone who likes world history, answer if u no plz.?

March 28, 2012 / / 1 Comment

Question by thecrazyday: hey this is for anyone who likes world history, answer if u no plz.?
These are questions for my exam review and im just hoping that some of you guys can help me. Theres 78 questions. You don’t have to answer all all the questions but answer as many as you can if you want. thx.

1. Where is the Tigris River?
2. Where is the Euphrates River?
3. Where is the Nile River?
4. Why is the Himalayas important?
5. What is the significance of the Yangtze River?
6. What is the significance of the Ganges River?
7. What is the significance of the North China Plain?
8. List the characteristics of a civilization.
9. What were Nomadic Invasions?
10. Describe the River Valley Agriculture.
11. What is the Caste system?
12. What is reincarnation?
13. Who were the Pheonicians?
14. What were the Phonetic symbols used for?
15. Who was Confucious?
16. What is Aristocracy?
17. What is Direct democracy?
18. What is a Monarchy?
19. What is an Oligarchy?
20. What is a Republic?
21. List the common economies of the ancient empires.
22. List some classical art and architecture from Greece.
23. What were the city states in Greece?
24. Describe Roman Law.
25. What were the 12 Tables?
26. What was Pax Romana?
27. What is succession?
28. List the outcomes of the Hellenistic Civilization.
29. What is cultural diffusion?
30. List the Indian Achievements in science.
31. What were the 10 commandments?
32. Compare the original Holy Roman Empire to the one under Fredrick I.
33. What was the government under the Han Dynasty?
34. What was the economy under the Han Dynasty?
35. What were the results of the Bantu Migration?
36. What was the agriculture like under the Bantu’s?
37. What were the political, economic and environmental reasons for the migration?
38. What was the agriculture like in the Americas?
39. What was the trade like in the Americas?
40. What is the House of Wisdom?
41. What is the Qur’an?
42. What were the 5 Pillars of Islam?
43. What is Justinian’s Code?
44. What was Muslim trade and culture?
45. Who were Samurai?
46. What was government like in Feudal Japan?
47. Who was Genghis Khan?
48. What were Germanic tribes?
49. Who was Marco Polo?
50. What was the impact of Nomadic Invasions?
51. Who was Charlemagne?
52. What is Feudalism?
53. What is a Manor System?
54. Who is a lord?
55. Who is a vassal?
56. Who is a knight?
57. List the functions of the guilds.
58. What were the cause and effects of the Commercial revolution?
59. What is the magna carta?
60. What is Parliament?
61. What were the effects of the Crusades?
62. What were stateless societies?
63. What was African trade?
64. List the conquests of the Aztecs.
65. What was the language of the Aztecs?
66. What type of government was run by the Incas?
67. What technology was created by the Incas?
68. What type of trade was developed by the Mayas?
69. What was the language of the Mayas?
70. What was the Renaissance?
71. Who were the Humanists?
72. Who was Leonardo DaVinci?
73. What is Block print?
74. Who is Martin Luther and his beliefs of salvation?
75. What were the selling of indulgences?
76. Describe the Ottoman and Safavid empires.
77. What types of industry were in these empires?
78. What is Cultural Blending?

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Answer by katie and my friend jasmine
i know number 12
number 12 is like when the dead comes back to life as someone/something else.
thats pretty much it. haha

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Q&A: HELP! Does any one know this?

March 7, 2012 / / 2 Comments

Question by Candy: HELP! Does any one know this?
does anyone know why there were gunships on the Yangtze River at 1920??

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Answer by mmdjaajl
yes i do thanks for asking

if you look it up you too can know the reason it is very interesting to read about it

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