Natural disasters in China was expected in 1996. This yield was anticipated despite torrential summer rains throughout China that flooded 32,500 square kilometres (8 million acres) of cropland, caused thousands of deaths, left millions homeless, and cost billions of yuan in damage. The Yellow River crested at its highest recorded level, inspiring fears of a catastrophic dike breach. Nevertheless, over the past 50 years, natural disasters on average had reduced China's harvests by approximately 1% annually. Work proceeded on the world's largest flood-control and hydroelectric project, the controversial Three Gorges Dam on the Chang Jiang (Yangtze River) above Yichang. Chinese planners were considering huge
Country School (1931 film) Country School (1931 film) Country School is a 1931 animated short film by Walter Lantz Productions and stars Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. The soundtrack of the cartoon was missing for many years, until the discovery of a sound print in 2015. Oswald and his girlfriend Kitty were going to school, for which they were late. The teacher later played a song for all of the students, but a hippo student spat at the teacher and put a balloon in Oswald's pants, so the teacher smacked Oswald, at which the balloon burst. The teacher said that school was dismissed, then finally