Natural disasters in China Development Institute, the state-led nature of humanitarian aid in today's China traces back to these traditional beliefs. Chinese believed that natural disasters would foretell the end of a dynasty or the death of a great leader. This concept of cosmic linkage between natural disasters and human conduct was radically rejected at the height of Maoist years, when nature was represented as ‘an enemy to be overcome, an adversary to be brought to heel’. Propaganda posters were produced with the slogan, "Earthquakes cannot frighten us, the people will certainly conquer nature." China has had 6 of the world's top 10 deadliest
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