Ed White (astronaut) to be known as the "Ed White" as this reference was worn by White during his spacewalk. The Speedmaster remains the only watch qualified by NASA for EVA use. White was played by Steven Ruge in the 1995 film "Apollo 13", by Chris Isaak in the 1998 HBO miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon", and by Matt Lanter in the 2015 ABC TV series "The Astronaut Wives Club". In 2018, he is portrayed by Jason Clarke in "First Man". Ed White (astronaut) Edward Higgins White II (November 14, 1930 – January 27, 1967), (Lt Col, USAF), was an American
Chinese as a foreign language and Macau and has traditionally been the dominant language among most Overseas Chinese communities. A number of universities outside Hong Kong and Macau offer Cantonese within their Chinese-language departments as well, especially in the UK and North America. The interpretation of the Chinese language in the West began with some misunderstandings. Since the earliest appearance of Chinese characters in the West, the belief that written Chinese was ideographic prevailed. Such a belief led to Athanasius Kircher's conjecture that Chinese characters were derived from the Egyptian hieroglyphs, China being a colony of Egypt. John Webb, the British architect, went a step