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Introduction

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Selected general articles

Did you know...

... that Xie Fei, one of the thirty women participating in the Long March, was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution?
... that a big duck helped promote duck farming on Long Island?
... that the inclusion of the Canadian song "How Long" in a bootleg Russian DVD resulted in a sixteen-year search for the track's creator?
... that Long Island's PBS station specialized in making shows for other stations to air during their pledge drives?
... that the site of Longacres has been home to a dairy farm, a horse racetrack, headquarters of a Boeing division, and a potential new facility for Seattle Sounders FC?
... that Charles Dickens described the Long Island Sound steamboat New York as "a sullen, cumbrous, ungraceful, unshiplike leviathan"?

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Image 1Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, the first bridge crossing Yangtze, was completed in 1957. (from Yangtze)
Image 2A shipyard on the banks of the Yangtze building commercial river freight boats (from Yangtze)
Image 3Cruise boats on Yangtze (from Yangtze)
Image 4Barges on the river (from Yangtze)
Image 5The Imperial Japanese Navy armored cruiser Izumo in Shanghai in 1937. She sank riverboats on the Yangtze in 1941. (from Yangtze)
Image 6A topographical map of China depicting the Yangtze's steady course and the former route of the Yellow River south of Shandong to the Huai mouth, after its stabilization by the Grand Eunuch Li Xing's public works following the 1494 flood (from Yangtze)
Image 7Map of the Yangtze river (facing west) showing the major settlements along its banks (from Yangtze)
Image 8The critically endangered Chinese alligator is one of the smallest crocodilians, reaching a maximum length of about 2 m (7 ft). (from Yangtze)
Image 9The Yichang Yangtze Highway Bridge, a suspension bridge near the Gezhouba Dam lock, was completed in 1996. (from Yangtze)
Image 10The Caiyuanba Bridge, an arch bridge in Chongqing, was completed in 2007. (from Yangtze)
Image 11Afternoon in the jagged mountains rising from the Yangtze River gorge (from Yangtze)
Image 12A container carrier on Yangtze (from Yangtze)
Image 13Diagram showing dams planned for the upper reaches of the Yangtze River (from Yangtze)
Image 14The Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge, an arch bridge, was completed in 1992. (from Yangtze)
Image 15The Chinese mitten crab is a commercially important species in the Yangtze, but invasive in other parts of the world. (from Yangtze)
Image 16The two sturgeon species in the Yangtze (here Chinese sturgeon) are both seriously threatened. (from Yangtze)
Image 17Yangtze in 1915 (from Yangtze)
Image 18The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, a beam bridge, was completed in 1968. (from Yangtze)
Image 19USS Luzon (from Yangtze)
Image 20A vehicle carrier on Yangtze (from Yangtze)
Image 21The cable-stayed Anqing Yangtze River Bridge at Anqing, was completed in 2005. (from Yangtze)
Image 22The Three Gorges Dam in 2006 (from Yangtze)
Image 23The Sutong Yangtze River Bridge, between Nantong and Suzhou, was one of the longest cable-stayed bridges in the world when it was completed in 2008. (from Yangtze)
Image 24Wuhan Metro Line 2 is the first underground rail line crossing the Yangtze River. (from Yangtze)
Image 25USS Long as minesweeper, Oct 1943 (from USS Long)
Image 26The "Great River" (大江) with its entrance to the East China Sea marked as the "Mouth of the Yangtze" (揚子江口) on the Jiangnan map in the 1754 Provincial Atlas of the Qing Empire (from Yangtze)
Image 27A map of the Warring States around 350 BC, showing the former coastline of the Yangtze delta (from Yangtze)
Image 28The silver carp is native to the river, but has (like other Asian carp) been spread through large parts of the world with aquaculture. (from Yangtze)
Image 29The entirely aquatic Chinese giant salamander is the world's largest amphibian, reaching up to 1.8 m (5.9 ft) in length. (from Yangtze)