A little over a year after Drake's arrival in Tientsin, another alum of the Stanford geology department arrived: Herbert Clark Hoover. Hoover had worked for the Arkansas Geological Survey in the ...

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So, the 1977 Russian flu virus was actually a strain that had disappeared from the planet a quarter century early, then was somehow resurrected back into circulation. This explained why it attacked ...

Accredited to: Massachusetts. G.O. No.: 55, 19 July 1901. Citation: In the presence of the enemy during the battle near Tientsin, China, 13 July 1900, Adams distinguished himself by meritorious ...

Red China's leaders these days no longer talk of the great leap forward, but of the "law of undulating progress." It means, presumably, that every economic leap is ...

ON August 20, 1939, a flood occurred at Tientsin in China which is stated to have been of unprecedented dimensions even for that part of the Far East, where floods are not infrequent. Mr. F.

A rare one of these imperial stamps came from the German-occupied Chinese post of Tientsin. These stamps were, well… stamped ...

Rank and organization: Ordinary Seaman, U.S. Navy. Born: 1821, York County, Pennsylvania. Accredited to: Maryland. G.O. No.: 176, 9 July 1872. Citation: On board the ...

So, the best evidence is that the 1977 Russian flu actually emerged – or more properly “re-emerged” – in or near Tientsin, China, in the spring of 1976. Was it simply a coincidence that ...