Silence in the Square: The 1989 Tiananmen Protests
In the spring of 1989, a student vigil in Beijing grew into a nationwide movement. It ended in the night of 3–4 June, in an episode China still keeps out of public memory.
Asia
Asian landmarks and the stories behind them, from the Ryugyong Hotel and the Minaret of Jam to Aden's Big Ben, Russian ruins and India's crafts.
Ryugyong Hotel, North Korea
The Ryugyong Hotel (sometimes spelled as Ryu-Gyong Hotel), or Yu-Kyung Hotel, is an unfinished 105-story, 330-metre-tall (1,080 ft) pyramid-shaped skyscraper in…
Feng Shui
Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese practice of utilizing certain so called laws governing the heavens and earth that can improve through what is called having pos…
Hovrinskaya Hospital, Russia
Hovrinskaya hospital was an abandoned building in the Hovrino District of Moscow in the Hovrino area, near the railway station of the same name. Aerial view 201…
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa was born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, on August 27, 1910, the map of the heavens at her birth has the following stellar signature: Sagittarius, Virgo…
Yubileynaya Mine, Russia
The Yubileinaya mine is a coal mine in the Kemerovo Oblast area of Siberia, Russia. The mine is operated by Yuzhkuzbassugol, part owned by the Evraz Group who p…