Like many of you, I've been spending endless hours browsing through Google's newly debuted LIFE photo archive. There are some real Xinjiang gems in there, which I hope to feature here from time to time. Click on the image above for the complete photo.... ...full story at Opposite End of China
from Opposite End of China on Fri, Nov 21 2008
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Michael Phelps - "Time of My Life" »
YouTube video Scenes from Michael's performance at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing set to David Cook's "Time of My Life". What an amazing athlete! We enjoyed cheering him on. I hope you enjoy the video. I do not own photos/music. |
| 20 Nov 08 |
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Just Amazing: China images from the LIFE photo archive hosted by Google » Shanghaiist Photo by Jack Birns, date unknown Via Andrew Sullivan we learn of this extraordinary project: Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first... |
| 13 Jul 09 |
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Xinjiang Info-War » RConversation The screenshot above comes from the Anti-cnn.com website as it appeared on Saturday. The item is titled "Rebiya Fakes It! Using a fake photo to twist the truth in the Urumqi incident" Click on the image to view an image... |
| 03 Dec 08 |
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LIFE with Sheng Shicai » Opposite End of China One of the great things about the LIFE photo archive on Google is that it's now possible to pair-up old TIME Magazine articles with their long-lost photos. It takes a bit of detective work, but you can dig up a lot of images that illuminate the plain text... |
| 09 Jul 09 |
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Xinjiang Riots: With things calming down, time for introspection » Shanghaiist Photo compiled by China Digital Times We've entered into the fourth day of the Xinjiang incident, and it seems that - at least for now - Chinese officials have finally gotten everything under some semblence of control. Wednesday was marked by sporadic... |
| 10 Jul 07 |
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Photo of the Day: The fight against the shifting sands of time in Xinjiang » Shanghaiist The Chinese government plans to set aside 18.7 billion yuan (US$2.46B) over the next eight years to try to roll back desertification in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Forest belts will be built around cities and oases, irrigation... |
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