Regent’s Park in London is an excellent spot for a walk in all seasons. There is always a relaxing atmosphere plus new things to see. I took the photos below during a walk yesterday, 12th May. Border flowers A goose… Read More ›
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中国人民革命军事博物馆的亮点
去年十二月我在北京旅行的时候去了中国人民革命军事博物馆(下面简称‘军博’)。军博位于北京西部复兴路,离故宫五公里左右。 我在军博里参观了第一层和负一层两个展区。这里的陈列内容包括很多类型的兵器装备像飞机,大炮,舰船,导弹和坦克。还有美国和日本造的飞机,大炮和坦克。下面有五张由我拍摄的照片。 军博的氛围不是充满火药味的,而是平静和庄重。我在军博的时候是唯一的‘老外’,不过其他的参观者和军博工做人员都很友好。 军博的网站很有用(m.jb.mil.cn)。网站的内容包括军博简介,基本阵列,主题展览,研究成果,艺术创作等30个栏目。还有7个基本陈列网上展馆:古代战争馆,近代战争馆,土地革命战争馆,抗日战争馆,全面解放战争馆,新中国国防和军队建设成就馆和军事艺术馆。 ‘功勋喷气式歼击机’ – 这架飞机是王海(中国人民志愿军空军的战斗英雄)驾驶过的苏联造的米格飞机。据展品的注释,王海的飞行大队击落击伤敌机29架。王海本人驾机击落击伤敌机9架。王海被志愿军总部授予‘志愿军一级战斗英雄’称号。据百度百科,王海现在还活着,今年九十二岁了。 ‘英雄的215号坦克’ – 这辆坦克是苏联造T-34/85中型坦克。据展品的注释,这辆坦克在抗美援朝战争中,共击毁敌人重型坦克5辆,化学迫击炮9门和汽车一辆。这辆坦克也完成了7次配合步兵作战任务。为此,中国人民志愿军领导机关授予全体成员集体特等功。 ‘美国造U-2高空侦察机残骸‘ – 美国高空侦察机是20世纪50年代美国洛克希德公司研制的高空战略侦察机。1962年9月9日中国空军地空导弹部队首次击落一架U-2高空侦察机。至1967年9月,空军地空导弹部队共击落5架U-2侦察机。这架飞机残骸是由四架飞机残骸拼成的。 ‘美国造M4A3谢尔曼中型坦克’ – 1950年12月抗美援朝战斗时期第二次战役中这辆美国坦克是于朝鲜介川地区缴获美军的。 ‘中国造轰-6轰炸机’ – 这架飞机是中国仿制苏联图-16双发高亚音速中程轰炸机的战斗飞机。 Michael Ingle – michaelingle01@gmail.com
Planning Restrictions Are Driving Us To Extremes
Almost everyone in the UK agrees that we need to build more houses, indeed many more houses, if we are to provide adequate, and affordable, housing for those who need it. Last year we built 140,000 new houses, but it… Read More ›
Robert Moses: Master Builder of New York and Infrastructure Dynamo
I have recently read Robert Caro’s 1974 biography of Robert Moses: The Power Broker – Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. It is a massive book, at 1,162 pages, as readers of Caro’s four volume biography of Lyndon… Read More ›
Visit to the British Museum
I made one of my regular visits to the British Museum this afternoon. I focussed on Room 70 on the top floor (Rome and the Roman Empire). After climbing the two long flights of stairs to the top floor, I… Read More ›
Up the revolution…but do not tamper with the Green Belt!
Club and gallery owner Alex Proud published an article in the Telegraph yesterday in which he suggested “10 ways we can fix the UK”. It was an iconoclastic list, verging on the revolutionary, including such ideas as: make it illegal not… Read More ›
Second visit to the London green belt – Dagenham
My second visit to the London green belt was to Dagenham, in east London. This is not such a salubrious area as Hadley Wood, the site of my first visit, but there is a substantial area of green belt very… Read More ›
A visit to the green belt at Hadley Wood, Enfield (North East London)
I recently visited part of London’s green belt, in the area of Hadley Wood. This was one of a series of trips I have made to areas around the capital where urgently needed new housing might be built if local councils… Read More ›
Building on the green belt: Nicky Gavron no, David Lammy yes
A major divide has opened up in the London Labour establishment between Nicky Gavron (Labour Chair of the London Assembly Planning Committee) and David Lammy (first declared candidate for the London Mayoralty election in 2016). Nicky Gavron’s view Nicky Gavron… Read More ›
Medical Museums in London
London has so many museums that it is possible to separate them into categories. The most interesting category for me (apart from the British Museum, which is in a category of its own) is that of the medical museums. I… Read More ›
Tower Bridge Museum and Engine Rooms
I was intrigued by news of a “glass floor” at the Tower Bridge Museum here in London and visited this weekend for the first time. The glass floor did indeed measure up to expectations. It runs down the middle of… Read More ›
The Magical Combination of Public Transport and IT
I have long believed that technology is most effective when it helps us to do the things we have always done, better and more efficiently. This is obviously the case for readers, with newspapers, magazines and books now being easily… Read More ›
Party Policies on the Greenbelt – Summing Up
This is the last of my series on the main parties’ policies for building houses in the greenbelt. A disappointing roundup In summary, no party is currently proposing any relaxation in restrictions on the use of greenbelt land for housebuilding…. Read More ›