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2 hours ago · A special exhibition that features museum collections arranged to take visitors into the fictional world depicted in the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢) began yesterday at the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Written by Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹), the novel reminisces about ...
2 hours ago · A think tank affiliated with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is pushing for greater oversight of culture and arts policies and events, saying yesterday that it would establish an organization for such purposes while demanding that minister of culture-designate Lee Yuan (李遠) launch a government inquiry into why a gezai opera (歌仔戲 ...
2 hours ago · REPORT: Taipei has expressed an interest in obtaining loitering munitions matching the AeroVironment Switchblade 300 or the Anduril Altius-600, ‘Foreign Policy’ said Taiwan is seeking US-made kamikaze drones in an apparent concession to pressure from Washington to focus on asymmetric capabilities to defeat or deter a Chinese attack, Foreign Policy said in a report on Wednesday.
1 day ago · Early years Barry Alan Crompton Gibb was born at Jane Crookall Maternity Home in Douglas, Isle of Man, on 1 September 1946, to Hugh Gibb (15 January 1916 – 6 March 1992), a drummer, and Barbara Gibb (née Pass; 17 November 1920 – 12 August 2016), both Manchester natives. He has English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Gibb's grandfather Hugh Gibb Sr. was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1892 ...
2 hours ago · Adjusted for ticket-price inflation. This chart ranks films by gross adjusted for ticket price inflation up to 2020 levels, based on data from Box Office Mojo, which was last updated in 2019 based on an average domestic movie ticket price of $9.01, and applying the Template:Inflation for the following years up to 2023 levels, due to the lack of updates on the original source.
2 hours ago · Invasive Hong Kong whipping frogs are displacing Taiwan’s indigenous Polypedates braueri from their habitats, the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute said on Tuesday, citing internal studies. Hong Kong whipping frogs, or Polypedates megacephalus, are one of the invasive anuran species introduced to ...
1 day ago · In 2006, Little Richard was featured in a popular GEICO advertisement. A 2005 recording of his duet vocals with Jerry Lee Lewis on a cover of the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There" was included on Lewis's 2006 album, Last Man Standing. The same year, Richard was a guest judge on the TV series Celebrity Duets.
