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It started with an open letter to the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce. Melbourne businessman Anthony Voyage (born Andonis Voyatzis) wanted to trade with China but he could find no contacts to open up links, so he sent the letter in the hope that someone on the other end would respond. Someone did and the rest is history.
In the 1950s there were very few people in Australia, let alone the rest of the world, who would trade with mainland China, the People’s Republic of China. China was largely a closed book after the victory of the communists under Mao Zedong in 1948 and the confinement of the defeated Nationalist Chinese forces to the island nation of Taiwan.
The 2021 season-opening game scheduled for Dublin, Ireland, is coming back to the states.
A release from the Nebraska Athletic Department says the game has been moved after “extensive consultation with the Irish government, medical authorities, and the administrative staffs at Nebraska and Illinois”. The August 28 game will now be played in Chapaign at Illinois’ Memorial Stadium.
“We are disappointed that we will not be able to travel to Ireland to open the 2021 football season in Dublin,” Nebraska Athletic Director Bill Moos said. “The trip would have been a memorable experience for the young men in our football program, so I feel badly they won’t have this opportunity.
February 17, 2021
In what has been a developing story for the last few weeks, the Aer Lingus Classic vs. Illinois in Dublin, Ireland will not happen.
The Week Zero game set for Aug. 28 was officially moved to Champaign on Wednesday, as all parties involved agreed it was the right moved to make after extensive consultation with the Irish government, medical authorities and the administrative staffs at both schools.
“We are disappointed that we will not be able to travel to Ireland to open the 2021 football season in Dublin,” Nebraska Athletic Director Bill Moos said in a statement. “The trip would have been a memorable experience for the young men in our football program, so I feel badly they won’t have this opportunity.
Frosted Flakes: Dyatlov Pass, 66 Pounds of Oranges and ‘Traveling Under the Social Influence’
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That’s a lot of oranges
One of the strangest mysteries that has fascinated me the most was the Dyatlov Pass incident. A group of hikers never returned after leaving on a trip into the Ural Mountains. The causes of death ranged from internal bleeding, head trauma and hypothermia.
A National Geographic article released last week (I posted the article below) declared that the cause of the death was releated to a small avalanche. It seems convincing enough after reading the article and watching some other recent videos about the incident (see below) but I’m curious to hear everyone else’s thoughts about the recent findings.