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  • Moral Education in Ancient China: Kong Rong Offering Pears

    There is a story recorded in the Three-Character Primer entitled, "Four-year-old Kong Rong offering pears." This is a textbook for children, said to have been compiled by Wang Yinglin in the Southern Song Dynasty. The story tells about the kind and generous nature of Kong Rong, who was born in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
  • Poem: Song of Salvation

    Let the song of salvation Sound across every land and sea. From shores to boundless horizons, The light of many a heart's decree.
  • Cartoon: Constitution Becomes Family Slave

  • Poem: Hallowed Sky

    This persecution relentless,These crimes countless,Yet, so many still turning a blind eye.
  • Planets Galore: Twelve New Discoveries Announced

    Just a decade ago, scientists knew of only the nine planets - those in our local solar system. In 1995, improved detection techniques produced the first solid evidence of a planet circling another star. A proliferation of discoveries followed, and now dozens of ongoing search efforts around the globe add steadily to the roster of worlds. Most of these planets differ markedly from the planets in our own solar system. They are more similar to Jupiter or Saturn than to Earth, and are considered unlikely to support life as we know it.
  • Poem: This Path

    How sure is my footingUpon this long and narrow path,How determined am I to widen and raise my heart?
  • Poem: China Seas

    Torrents under seas rising,Raging behind facades of calm.Countless vessels now returning home,Following the helm of one.
  • Strange Comet of Solar System Defies Gravity

    Brownlee told SPACE.com that Wild 2Â could represent a unique class of comet. He and his colleagues had expected it to be relatively featureless with a dusty, charcoal-like coating. Instead they found a place riddled with apparently ancient impact craters. Broad mesas and steep canyons stand out clearly.
  • Cartoon: "610 Office's Instruction"

  • Smallest Extrasolar Planet Found

    Astronomers from Penn State and Caltech have found the smallest extrasolar planet yet, orbiting a pulsar 1,500 light-years away. The small planet - the fourth discovered around this pulsar - has 1/5th the mass of Pluto, and orbits approximately the same distance as the asteroid belt orbits the Sun.
  • Poem With Accompanying Music: Master's Grace - Practitioners from Southern Germany Send Chinese New Year's Greetings to Magnificent Master

    Overcoming numerous tribulations,Worrying about the cosmos’ safety,Descend level by level and enduring the high cold.Benevolently save people yet obstructed by evil,Making vigorous efforts to turn the situation.The road is dangerous, a myriad of mountains,
  • Poem: Worlds Unfolding

    I am the world unfolding,Transcending all forces of old.I am the heart awakening,Beyond confines of dark and cold.
  • Poem: Clouds

    Eclipsing the sky,To dull sight and sun,Crimes against Falun Dafa’s first light, Veiling our nature of becoming,How many hearts divided from one?
  • Painting: A Spring Morning in a Town

  • Diamonds Used to Polish Sapphire-Rich Stone in China, 2500 BC

    Researchers have uncovered strong evidence that the ancient Chinese used diamonds to grind and polish ceremonial stone burial axes as long as 6,000 years ago -– and incredibly, did so with a level of skill difficult to achieve even with modern polishing techniques. The finding, reported in the February issue of the journal Archaeometry, places this earliest known use of diamond worldwide thousands of years earlier than the gem is known to have been used elsewhere.