Beigan Island's War and Peace Memorial Park Exhibition Center (Matsu Islands, Taiwan)
War and Peace Memorial Park Exhibition Center / 戰爭和平紀念公園主題館 was opened on 29 March 2010 in Stronghold #12 on Dawo Mountain in Beigan’s War and Peace Memorial Park. The area around the center used to be the Stronghold #12 during the Chinese Civil War. The center displays history about Matsu under military rule, from the origins, chronology of military events, military items and military-citizens social culture display areas.
Location: Stronghold 12, War Memorial Park, Houao,
Opening times: 08:30~12:30、13:30~17:00 (Daily)
Beigan Island's War and Peace Memorial Park Exhibition Center (Matsu Islands / 馬祖群島 / 马祖列岛)
War and Peace Memorial Park Exhibition Center / 戰爭和平紀念公園主題館 was opened on 29 March 2010 in Stronghold #12 on Dawo Mountain in Beigan’s War and Peace Memorial Park. The area around the center used to be the Stronghold #12 during the Chinese Civil War. The center displays history about Matsu under military rule, from the origins, chronology of military events, military items and military-citizens social culture display areas.
Location: Stronghold 12, War Memorial Park, Houao,
Opening times: 08:30~12:30、13:30~17:00 (Daily)
Visiting Beigan Island (Matsu Islands, Taiwan)
Beigan Township / 北竿鄉 is one of the five major islands of the Matsu Islands / 馬祖群島 / 马祖列岛 ( The main places I visited there included:
- Banli / Banli Beach - The Beihai Tunnel of Beigan was closed though - maybe due to the tide? The tunnel is 550 meters long and 9–15 meters wide and visitors are able to ride canoe along the tunnel.
- War and Peace Memorial Park Exhibition Center
- War and Peace Memorial Park - Encompasses Strongholds 06, 08, and 12 and covers a total of 38.8 hectares. The completion of Stronghold 08 provided Taiwan’s first prototype for such a park. Stronghold 08 focuses on the display of weapons, at the same time using space in an old barracks to exhibit military equipment.
- Houao Village - Receding waters at low tide leave a bare expanse of beach four or five hectares in area. A bridge now connects Houao with Tangci, where in olden days people moving between the two villages when the tide was up had to wade through water.
- Qinbi Village - The village of Qinbi is also known as “A Mediterranean town on the Taiwan Straits.” Yet another name for the village is Jingao, or “mirror harbor,” derived from the crystal-clear waters of its bordering sea. The present name means “rice pile wall,” because from Turtle Island just offshore it resembles a pile of rice against the mountain slope behind it. Qinbi has the best-preserved eastern Fujian-style buildings in all of Matsu.
馬祖北竿戰爭和平紀念公園4/9主題館 War and Peace Memorial Park , Beigan Matsu (Taiwan)
戰爭和平紀念公園主題館在99年03月29日正式揭牌,坐落於北竿戰爭和平紀念園區內,位處大沃山12據點處,天氣晴朗時,遠眺大陸海岸線,相對於對立時代的緊張氣氛,更能與「戰爭和平」主題相異其趣.
Taiwanese Captures Stunning Ocean Light Show in the Matsu Islands
Local resident Andy Chow onboard a boat in the Matsu Islands witnessed the natural phenomenon that is sometimes referred to as ‘Sea Sparkle’.
From about April to August of every year growing algae called Red Noctiluca emit light underneath the ocean and can be see from the surface as a blue light. Andy was extremely lucky to catch the light show as it doesn’t always appear.
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Visiting Beigan Island (Matsu Islands / 馬祖群島 / 马祖列岛)
Beigan Township / 北竿鄉 is one of the five major islands of the Matsu Islands / 馬祖群島 / 马祖列岛 ( The main places I visited there included:
- Banli / Banli Beach - The Beihai Tunnel of Beigan was closed though - maybe due to the tide? The tunnel is 550 meters long and 9–15 meters wide and visitors are able to ride canoe along the tunnel.
- War and Peace Memorial Park Exhibition Center
- War and Peace Memorial Park - Encompasses Strongholds 06, 08, and 12 and covers a total of 38.8 hectares. The completion of Stronghold 08 provided Taiwan’s first prototype for such a park. Stronghold 08 focuses on the display of weapons, at the same time using space in an old barracks to exhibit military equipment.
- Houao Village - Receding waters at low tide leave a bare expanse of beach four or five hectares in area. A bridge now connects Houao with Tangci, where in olden days people moving between the two villages when the tide was up had to wade through water.
- Qinbi Village - The village of Qinbi is also known as “A Mediterranean town on the Taiwan Straits.” Yet another name for the village is Jingao, or “mirror harbor,” derived from the crystal-clear waters of its bordering sea. The present name means “rice pile wall,” because from Turtle Island just offshore it resembles a pile of rice against the mountain slope behind it. Qinbi has the best-preserved eastern Fujian-style buildings in all of Matsu.
Visiting Beigan Island / 北竿鄉 (Slideshow)
Beigan Township / 北竿鄉 is one of the five major islands of the Matsu Islands / 馬祖群島 / 马祖列岛 ( The main places I visited there included:
- Banli / Banli Beach - The Beihai Tunnel of Beigan was closed though - maybe due to the tide? The tunnel is 550 meters long and 9–15 meters wide and visitors are able to ride canoe along the tunnel.
- War and Peace Memorial Park Exhibition Center
- War and Peace Memorial Park - Encompasses Strongholds 06, 08, and 12 and covers a total of 38.8 hectares. The completion of Stronghold 08 provided Taiwan’s first prototype for such a park. Stronghold 08 focuses on the display of weapons, at the same time using space in an old barracks to exhibit military equipment.
- Houao Village - Receding waters at low tide leave a bare expanse of beach four or five hectares in area. A bridge now connects Houao with Tangci, where in olden days people moving between the two villages when the tide was up had to wade through water.
- Qinbi Village - The village of Qinbi is also known as “A Mediterranean town on the Taiwan Straits.” Yet another name for the village is Jingao, or “mirror harbor,” derived from the crystal-clear waters of its bordering sea. The present name means “rice pile wall,” because from Turtle Island just offshore it resembles a pile of rice against the mountain slope behind it. Qinbi has the best-preserved eastern Fujian-style buildings in all of Matsu.
馬祖北竿塘岐村魚麵 Tanchi village, Beigan Matsu (Taiwan)
魚麵製作從買魚,剁魚,製作魚漿,把魚漿揉進太白粉做成麵團,製成麵條後曝曬,一共要經過十二道程序.由於製作不易,一直到今天,馬祖也才僅僅有兩家店製作魚麵.
{Trip} Taiwan Travel -- MATSU Islands, BEIGAN and NANGAN/馬祖北竿南竿
This is a video of our trip to the Matsu islands in the summer of 2012. Hope you get an idea of what it's like to travel to this lesser known area of Taiwan.
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More info about Matsu:
Matsu National Scenic Area website
Tai-Ma Ferry website (Chinese)
We stayed at:
Chinbe No. 25 Guesthouse (芹壁村25號)
Add: 25, Qinbi Village, Beigan Township (北竿鄉芹壁村25號)
Tel: 08365-56280/0975-421-178
Website:
We ate at:
Da Zhong Restaurant (大眾飲食店)
Add: 80, Matsu Village, Nangan Township (南竿鄉馬祖村80號)
Tel: 0836-22185
A-Po Fish Noodle (阿婆魚麵)
Add: 168, Tangqi Village, Beigan Township (北竿鄉塘岐村168號)
Tel: 0836-56359
We bought souvenirs at:
Xie He Foods (Master Fa) (協和食品行 [發師傅])
Add: 229, Tangqi Village, Beigan Township (北竿鄉塘岐村229號)
Tel: 0836-55236/0933-095-034
Website: 083655236.com.tw (Chinese)
Matsu Specialty Center (台灣菸酒海產金銀買賣店)
Add: 233, Tangqi Village, Beigan Township (北竿鄉塘岐村233號)
Tel: 0836-55412
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Kinmen
Kinmen or Quemoy is a small archipelago of several islands of Taiwan including Great Kinmen, Lesser Kinmen, and some islets. Administratively, it is Kinmen County of the streamlined Fujian Province, Taiwan. The county is also claimed by the People's Republic of China as part of its own Fujian Province's Quanzhou Prefecture. It is geographically very near Xiamen, no more than 2 kilometres. Some islands of other counties, such as Wuqiu, were transferred to the jurisdiction of Kinmen County by the ROC government following its defeat in the Chinese Civil War and retreat to Taiwan. Matsu is the other set of islands on the Fujian coast controlled by the Republic of China.
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Taipei (; Hokkien POJ: Tâi-pak), officially known as Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China. Sitting at the northern tip of the island, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about 25 km (16 mi) southwest of the northern port city Keelung. Most of the city is located in the Taipei Basin, an ancient lakebed. The basin is bounded by the relatively narrow valleys of the Keelung and Xindian rivers, which join to form the Tamsui River along the city's western border.The city proper is home to an estimated population of 2,704,810 (2015), forming the core part of the Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area, which includes the nearby cities of New Taipei and Keelung with a population of 7,047,559, the 40th most-populous urban area in the world—roughly one-third of Taiwanese citizens live in the metro district. The name Taipei can refer either to the whole metropolitan area or the city proper.
Taipei is the political, economic, educational, and cultural center of the Republic of China and one of the major hubs in East Asia. Considered to be a global city and rated as an Alpha City by GaWC, Taipei is part of a major high-tech industrial area. Railways, high-speed rail, highways, airports, and bus lines connect Taipei with all parts of the island. The city is served by two airports – Taipei Songshan and Taiwan Taoyuan. Taipei is home to various world-famous architectural or cultural landmarks, which include Taipei 101, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Dalongdong Baoan Temple, Hsing Tian Kong, Lungshan Temple of Manka, National Palace Museum, Presidential Office Building, Taipei Guest House, Ximending, and several night markets dispersed throughout the city. Natural features such as Maokong, Yangmingshan, and hot springs are also well known to international visitors.
In English-language news reports the name Taipei often serves as a synecdoche referring to Taiwan's national government. Due to the ambiguous political status of Taiwan internationally, the term Chinese Taipei is also sometimes pressed into service as a synonym for the entire country, as when Taiwan's government representatives participate in international organizations or Taiwan's athletes participate in international sporting events.
Taipei | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:02:08 1 Name
00:02:26 2 History
00:04:13 2.1 First settlements
00:05:41 2.2 Japanese rule
00:06:55 2.3 Post-war
00:08:52 3 Geography
00:10:22 3.1 Climate
00:11:34 3.2 Air quality
00:12:25 4 Demographics
00:13:57 5 Economy
00:17:52 6 Culture
00:18:00 6.1 Tourism
00:18:29 6.1.1 Commemorative sites and museums
00:21:10 6.1.2 Taipei 101
00:22:02 6.1.3 Performing arts
00:22:47 6.1.4 Shopping and recreation
00:25:29 6.1.5 Temples
00:26:38 6.2 Festivals and events
00:28:09 6.3 Taipei in films
00:28:24 7 Government
00:29:46 7.1 Garbage recycling
00:30:47 7.2 Administrative divisions
00:31:06 7.3 City planning
00:32:12 8 Transportation
00:33:12 8.1 Metro
00:34:00 8.2 Rail
00:34:39 8.3 Bus
00:35:20 8.4 Airports
00:35:54 8.5 Ticketing
00:36:33 9 Education
00:38:17 9.1 Notable Mandarin language programs for foreigners
00:38:43 10 Sports
00:39:13 10.1 Major sporting events
00:40:31 10.2 Youth baseball
00:41:05 11 Media
00:41:22 11.1 Television
00:42:05 11.2 Newspapers
00:42:29 12 International relations
00:42:43 12.1 Twin towns and sister cities
00:42:54 12.2 Partner cities
00:43:18 12.3 Friendship cities
00:43:40 13 In popular culture
00:44:04 14 Gallery
00:44:12 15 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-D
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Taipei (; Hokkien POJ: Tâi-pak), officially known as Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of Taiwan (officially the Republic of China, ROC). Sitting at the northern tip of the island, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about 25 km (16 mi) southwest of the northern port city Keelung. Most of the city is located in the Taipei Basin, an ancient lakebed. The basin is bounded by the relatively narrow valleys of the Keelung and Xindian rivers, which join to form the Tamsui River along the city's western border.The city proper is home to an estimated population of 2,704,810 (2015), forming the core part of the Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area, which includes the nearby cities of New Taipei and Keelung with a population of 7,047,559, the 40th most-populous urban area in the world—roughly one-third of Taiwanese citizens live in the metro district. The name Taipei can refer either to the whole metropolitan area or the city proper.
Taipei is the political, economic, educational, and cultural center of Taiwan and one of the major hubs in East Asia. Considered to be a global city and rated as an Alpha City by GaWC, Taipei is part of a major high-tech industrial area. Railways, high-speed rail, highways, airports, and bus lines connect Taipei with all parts of the island. The city is served by two airports – Taipei Songshan and Taiwan Taoyuan. Taipei is home to various world-famous architectural or cultural landmarks, which include Taipei 101, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Dalongdong Baoan Temple, Hsing Tian Kong, Lungshan Temple of Manka, National Palace Museum, Presidential Office Building, Taipei Guest House, Ximending, and several night markets dispersed throughout the city. Natural features such as Maokong, Yangmingshan, and hot springs are also well known to international visitors.
In English-language news reports the name Taipei often serves as a synecdoche referring to Taiwan's national government. Due to the ambiguous political status of Taiwan internationally, the term Chinese Taipei is also sometimes pressed into service as a synonym for the entire country, as when Taiwan's government representatives participate in international organizations or Taiwan's athletes participate in international sporting events.
Taipei | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:03:25 1 Name
00:04:06 2 History
00:06:44 2.1 First settlements
00:09:00 2.2 Japanese rule
00:11:11 2.3 Post-war
00:14:15 3 Geography
00:16:33 3.1 Climate
00:18:27 3.2 Air quality
00:19:43 4 Cityscape
00:19:52 5 Demographics
00:22:17 6 Economy
00:28:31 7 Culture
00:28:39 7.1 Tourism
00:29:20 7.1.1 Commemorative sites and museums
00:33:35 7.1.2 Taipei 101
00:34:59 7.1.3 Performing arts
00:36:06 7.1.4 Shopping and recreation
00:40:18 7.1.5 Temples
00:42:04 7.2 Festivals and events
00:44:24 7.3 Taipei in films
00:44:42 8 Government
00:46:48 8.1 Garbage recycling
00:48:28 8.2 Administrative divisions
00:48:54 8.3 City planning
00:50:34 9 Transportation
00:52:05 9.1 Metro
00:53:18 9.2 Rail
00:54:13 9.3 Bus
00:55:15 9.4 Airports
00:56:05 9.5 Ticketing
00:57:01 10 Education
00:59:42 10.1 Notable Mandarin language programs for foreigners
01:00:18 11 Sports
01:01:01 11.1 Major sporting events
01:02:57 11.2 Youth baseball
01:03:46 12 Media
01:04:08 12.1 Television
01:05:13 12.2 Newspapers
01:05:48 13 International relations
01:06:05 13.1 Twin towns and sister cities
01:06:19 13.2 Partner cities
01:06:50 13.3 Friendship cities
01:07:20 14 In popular culture
01:07:53 15 Gallery
01:08:02 16 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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Speaking Rate: 0.7535334093740118
Voice name: en-US-Wavenet-E
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Taipei (; Mandarin: [tʰǎipèi]; Hokkien POJ: Tâi-pak), officially known as Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of Taiwan (officially the Republic of China, ROC). Located in the northern part of the Island of Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about 25 km (16 mi) southwest of the northern port city Keelung. Most of the city is located in the Taipei Basin, an ancient lakebed. The basin is bounded by the relatively narrow valleys of the Keelung and Xindian rivers, which join to form the Tamsui River along the city's western border.The city proper is home to an estimated population of 2,704,810 (2015), forming the core part of the Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area, which includes the nearby cities of New Taipei and Keelung with a population of 7,047,559, the 40th most-populous urban area in the world—roughly one-third of Taiwanese citizens live in the metro district. The name Taipei can refer either to the whole metropolitan area or the city proper.
Taipei is the political, economic, educational, and cultural center of Taiwan and one of the major hubs in East Asia. Considered to be a global city and rated as an Alpha City by GaWC, Taipei is part of a major high-tech industrial area. Railways, high-speed rail, highways, airports, and bus lines connect Taipei with all parts of the island. The city is served by two airports – Songshan and Taoyuan. Taipei is home to various world-famous architectural or cultural landmarks, which include Taipei 101, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Dalongdong Baoan Temple, Hsing Tian Kong, Lungshan Temple of Manka, National Palace Museum, Presidential Office Building, Taipei Guest House, Ximending, and several night markets dispersed throughout the city. Natural features such as Maokong, Yangmingshan, and hot springs are also well known to international visitors.
In English-language news reports the name Taipei often serves as a synecdoche referring to central government of Taiwan. Due to the ambiguous political status of Taiwan internationally, the term Chinese Taipei is also frequently pressed into service as a synonym for the entire country, as when Taiwan's governmental representatives participate in international organizations or Taiwan's athletes participate in international sporting events.
The Great Gildersleeve: House Hunting / Leroy's Job / Gildy Makes a Will
The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first introduced on Oct. 3, 1939, ep. #216. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity.
On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee! became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic. Gildy admits as much at the end of Gildersleeve's Diary on the Fibber McGee and Molly series (Oct. 22, 1940).
He soon became so popular that Kraft Foods—looking primarily to promote its Parkay margarine spread — sponsored a new series with Peary's Gildersleeve as the central, slightly softened and slightly befuddled focus of a lively new family.
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.