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Electric Human Suit
Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew
Your cosmopolitan sympathies
“HOW TO SPOT A JAP” — Milton Caniff, for the US Army Special Service Division, 1942.
A comic strip included in the first edition of “A POCKET GUIDE TO CHINA”, a 75-page booklet distributed to US Army and Navy servicemen during their stay in China during World War II. “HOW TO SPOT A JAP” did not appear in subsequent printings.
People clean up mud after flood waters receded on Sept. 20 in Quxian County, Sichuan Province of China. At least 13 people were killed, 18 others were missing and 1,320,000 people were deeply affected in rain-triggered floods from last Friday in Sichuan province. (ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)
Portrait of Zen master Wuzhun Shifan by an unknown artist, 1238, ink and color on silk
The WZ-10 is one sexy attack helicopter.
(via vodkaofthegods)
Willem Blaeu, 1642, China
Photograph by el_crater, Chongqing, China.
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Troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900: from Britain, United States, Russia, British India, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Japan.
Boxers facing Japanese and British forces
Chinese soldiers in 1899-1901. Left: two infantrymen of the New Imperial Army. Front: drum major of the regular army. Seated on the trunk: field artilleryman. Right: Boxers.
Soldiers of the German 1st East Asian Infantry Regiment with Boxer flags captured at the Battle of Beitang, 1900.