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Introduction

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Selected general articles

Did you know...

... that Xie Fei, one of the thirty women participating in the Long March, was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution?
... that the 2018 book The Longevity Diet claims that a "fast-mimicking diet" increases lifespan and healthspan?
... that Linda Ronstadt's "Long, Long Time" saw a 4,900-percent increase in Spotify streams in the United States in the hour after the broadcast of the third episode of The Last of Us?
... That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd that once led to the Jergins Trust Building in Long Beach, California?
... that one reviewer for Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century was let down by the book's lack of poetry?
... that the inclusion of the Canadian song "How Long" in a bootleg Russian DVD resulted in a sixteen-year search for the track's creator?

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Selected images

Image 1The two sturgeon species in the Yangtze (here Chinese sturgeon) are both seriously threatened. (from Yangtze)
Image 2A topographical map of China depicting the Yangtze's steady course and the former route of the Yellow River south of Shandong to the Huai mouth, after its stabilization by the Grand Eunuch Li Xing's public works following the 1494 flood (from Yangtze)
Image 3Wu Gorge, one of the Three Gorges (from Yangtze)
Image 4Narrowest point of the Tiger Leaping Gorge near Lijiang, downstream from Shigu (from Yangtze)
Image 5A map of the Warring States around 350 BC, showing the former coastline of the Yangtze delta (from Yangtze)
Image 6The silver carp is native to the river, but has (like other Asian carp) been spread through large parts of the world with aquaculture. (from Yangtze)
Image 7The Jinsha, "Golden Sands River", in Yunnan (from Yangtze)
Image 8Barges on the river (from Yangtze)
Image 9Cruise boats on Yangtze (from Yangtze)
Image 10The Three Gorges Dam in 2006 (from Yangtze)
Image 11The Tuotuo River, a headwater stream of the Yangtze River, known in Tibetan as Maqu, or the "Red River" (from Yangtze)
Image 12 Golden Island on the Yangtze near Zhenjiang in Jiangsu, as it was in the mid-19th century (from Yangtze)
Image 13Diagram showing dams planned for the upper reaches of the Yangtze River (from Yangtze)
Image 14The entirely aquatic Chinese giant salamander is the world's largest amphibian, reaching up to 1.8 m (5.9 ft) in length. (from Yangtze)
Image 15USS Long as minesweeper, Oct 1943 (from USS Long)
Image 16Yangtze in 1915 (from Yangtze)
Image 17The Chinese mitten crab is a commercially important species in the Yangtze, but invasive in other parts of the world. (from Yangtze)
Image 18The first turn of the Yangtze at Shigu (石鼓) in Yunnan, where the river turns 180 degrees from southbound to northbound (from Yangtze)
Image 19Xiling Gorge, one of the Three Gorges (from Yangtze)
Image 20The critically endangered Chinese alligator is one of the smallest crocodilians, reaching a maximum length of about 2 m (7 ft). (from Yangtze)
Image 21A container carrier on Yangtze (from Yangtze)
Image 22The "Great River" (大江) with its entrance to the East China Sea marked as the "Mouth of the Yangtze" (揚子江口) on the Jiangnan map in the 1754 Provincial Atlas of the Qing Empire (from Yangtze)
Image 23The Imperial Japanese Navy armored cruiser Izumo in Shanghai in 1937. She sank riverboats on the Yangtze in 1941. (from Yangtze)
Image 24A shipyard on the banks of the Yangtze building commercial river freight boats (from Yangtze)
Image 25USS Luzon (from Yangtze)
Image 26Three Gorges Dam in Hubei, the world's largest hydroelectric project (from Yangtze)
Image 27A vehicle carrier on Yangtze (from Yangtze)
Image 28Afternoon in the jagged mountains rising from the Yangtze River gorge (from Yangtze)
Image 29Map of the Yangtze river (facing west) showing the major settlements along its banks (from Yangtze)
Image 30The glaciers of the Tanggula Mountains, the traditional source of the Yangtze River (from Yangtze)
Image 31 Tiger Leaping Gorge in Yunnan (from Yangtze)
Image 32Qutang Gorge, one of the Three Gorges (from Yangtze)