June 5: A tiny girl with a long plait fell backwards, parts of her body appearing to go different ways. There were many like her.
A boy's corpse was squashed so hard on the bitumen that his internal organs fanned out around him.
He was one of scores run over by tanks as they rumbled to the square.
June 5: Their goal was to shame the CCP into becoming more responsive to the needs, hopes, and fears of the people.
This "counter-revolution," as authorities describe it, was no more than an astonishingly mild request for a degree of political liberalisation—not the end of the Communist Party rule.
June 5: A weekend of carnage in which hundreds, possibly thousands, of pro-democracy demonstrators — mostly unarmed — were killed in government-ordered attacks.
"The official news is all lies. Please tell the world of what the army has done. It no longer deserves to be called the People's Army..."
June 5: At 4am, the lights on the square were turned off.
Tens of thousands of people joined a rousing chorus to demonstrate their resolve. They sang emotionally in the dark, their voices demanding freedom.
By 5am armored personnel carriers had moved literally to crush the pro-democracy movement.
A cryptic species of sea slugs has been discovered at Keelung, Taiwan.
Thecacera sesama #芝麻角鞘海蛞蝓 is named after its signature black dots resembling sesame seeds.
Measuring just three millimetres long, the tiny nudibranch exhibits four primary behaviours: feeding, searching, mating, laying eggs.
June 5: An eyewitness account
- hid at Beijing Hotel and saw security (1) cutting the establishment's phone wires and (2) confiscating cameras, video equipment from reporters and TV crews
- saw two soldiers, sitting inside a truck parked next to a barricade, get killed when a tank rolled over them
As part of the rotation of this new collegiate baseball event between the three founding federations 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇯🇵, USA is set to host in 2027. Japan will host in 2028.
Taiwan is the 1st host for this tournament.
It’s a four-team, five-day format (three days of pool play): worldbaseball.com/inaugural-wo...
The Western Pacific region, including the waters around Taiwan, is a biodiversity hotspot for marine life.
It is home to more than 75% of all known coral species, 50% of the world's coral reefs, the greatest area of mangrove forests, and 3,000 fish species.
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June 5: A girl in the crowd heard her young brother was killed and ran towards the soldiers. "They shot her seven times, even as she was crawling."
A 4-year-old girl was killed by a bullet as she held her mother's hand.
A man was choked to death by metal chains soldiers carried for crowd control.
June 5: It takes some doing to declare thousands of students and ordinary citizens who have been demanding democracy as nothing more than "a tiny handful of people." Even more strenuous intellectual acrobatics are required to describe China's brightest and best as "counter-revolutionaries."
Thecacera sesame is a species of sea slug, only found in 2019
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⚾ Inaugural World Collegiate Baseball Championship Set for July 11-15 in Taichung!
The inaugural event will bring together four teams — Taiwan, Japan, Korea, the US — for a five-day tournament that showcases premier collegiate talent on the world stage.
Wonder if China will try to interfere again?
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Measuring just 3 millimeters, a tiny sea slug with black and yellow spots resembling sesame seeds has been discovered in Taiwan.
Thecacera sesama' is the first of its genus named in nearly 30 years, the find underscores how many small marine organisms remain undocumented.
Researchers have found a new-to-science species of a tiny sea slug with black and yellow spots resembling “scattered sesame seeds.” Measuring just three millimeters long (0.1 inches long), the…
