Wang Huiyao of the China Western Returned Scholars Association, which celebrates its centenary this year, observes that sea turtles have returned in five waves.
Their collection started over a hundred years ago when a museum director notice that the medieval paintings he brought home were quickly deteriorating.
The first shiploads of immigrants bound for the territory which is now the United States crossed the Atlantic more than a hundred years after the 15th- and 16th-century explorations of North America.
Without any instruction or command, the shooting stopped and German and British soldiers met in no man's land. Photographs were taken and gifts exchanged. It was a Christmas truce.
Those plants and animals that do survive usually reproduce very fast and in great numbers. The single-cell plant, the diatom, can multiply itself into a billion new diatoms in one month.
Follow the scent of fresh ink downstairs to Hatch Show Print, a letterpress print shop that’s been posting a unique blend of colour and style onto Nashville’s walls for over 100 years.