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Gift Idea From 1969: A Kitchen Computer
One year, the strange gift was an authentic Chinese junk complete with sails and teak decks. They apparently sold three at $11,500 (in 1962 money, no less). Over the top? In 1969, they featured a ...
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Study Buddy (Challenger): Why Hong Kong’s sailing junks symbolise a lost era
Read the following text, and answer questions 1-9 below: [1] Chinese seagoing junks, with their distinctive batwing sails, were used to symbolise Hong Kong to the world from the British colony’s ...
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So long and thanks for all the space junk: China-based Starlink competitor SpaceSail plans to have 15,000 satellites deployed by 2030, and it's not the only one with its eyes ...
However, rival satellite companies are waiting in the wings, including the reportedly Chinese state-backed SpaceSail ... or "Thousand Sails Constellation", which aims to provide a satellite ...
Where did English get the words ‘sampan’ and ‘junk’ from? Probably Cantonese and Javanese
found in the Tourism Board's logo - is the traditional Chinese junk, the larger, efficient, sturdy, multi-masted vessel with ...