Ladies and Gentlemen,Welcome to the Pictures of Posters (and Books) Past thread - in which the slogans and proganda posters of yesterday are brought together in one area to share and compare.The rules are simple:1)Communist Posters from P.R. China, Soviet Union, and communist cou ...

A cameraman takes footage as a boy with a Beijing Olympic logo haircut poses in Beijing, China, July 28, 2008. Local barber Wu Dasheng offered the boys in his neighborhood free Olympic-themed ha ...

Yesterday morning I took part in a movement of mountain-climbing organised by my company union.The distance from my home to the foot of XiangLuFeng mountain is about 3 kilometres away.And the altitude of XiangLuFeng peak is more than 300 metres.Like others ,I should have taken a bicycle or a b ...

This June 2008 NASA handout shows the Robotic Arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander with a sample of martian soil. NASA scientists said Thursday the agency was extending the Mars mission of its Phoenix ...

The first sun eclipse that can be viewed in China in the new century begins at around 7:00 pm Beijing Time, and will last for about two hours, although the total eclipse will be only two minutes. ...