2009年3月26日 星期四

Early musicians of Danshui

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(Left: Mr Chen Sizhi 陳泗治 , 1911-1992) A frequent commentator of this blog Mr Cowsill has expressed interests in Danshui-ren's contributi...
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2009年3月23日 星期一

Memories of 濱栗 and more...

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The following is a comment posted recently under "Climate in Danshui 1885" by a Mr Anonymous who is obviously from Danshui and has...
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2009年3月20日 星期五

Map of Taiwan 1896

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This map is from the Scottish Geographical Magazine. Published by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and edited by James Geikie and W.A...
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2009年3月17日 星期二

孫開華提督 - 漁人碼頭之戰的英雄

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(There are no photo records of 孫開華Sun Kai-Hua提督; the above is often mis-labeled as Sun when in fact it was 馮子材, another prominent general du...
2009年3月14日 星期六

Sébastien Lespès (1828-1897)

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Rear Adm Sébastien Lespès was no Adm Anatole-Amédée-Prosper Courbet. He arrived in Hongkong on March 4, 1884 to assume the command of the Fa...
2009年3月11日 星期三

東郷平八郎 Tōgō Heihachirō 來"觀察"漁人碼頭之戰

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The battle of Fisherman's Wharf had attracted the attention of Japan: [Left: The Amagi] During the Sino-French war (1884-1885), Tōgō Hei...
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2009年3月8日 星期日

Climate in Danshui 1885

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下文是1885年記載: 淡水的氣候既冷又濕,不適合洋人生存. 淡水人的經驗: 淡水冬季的冷,全國聞名,但也沒文中形容的那麼慘.文中的north-easters (東北風) 應是冬天從西伯利亞來的西北風之誤.此時淡水人圍爐取暖,順便烤烤年糕魷魚,樂在其中.夏天的颱風則與各地受災機率...
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