Harris & Ewing Gettysburg 50th reunion: Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans 1913 • Massive Medical Response As China Death Toll Reaches 1,526 (SCMP) • Beijing To Quarantine All Arrivals As Economic Life Struggles To Pick Up (R.) • Xi Puts On Brave Face, Vows To Deliver Economic Goals Amid Coronavirus (SCMP) • Egypt Confirms Coronavirus Case, The First In Africa (AlJ) • Chinese Medical Staff Pay ‘Too High A Price’ In Battle To Curb
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Alfred Palmer Halftrack scout car brought up to Army standards of smartness. White Motor Company, Cleveland Dec 1941 • Beijing Lowers Coronavirus Deaths By 108 Due To “Double Counting” (ZH) • Singapore’s Biggest Daily Jump In New Coronavirus Cases Takes Tally To 58 (R.) • Foxconn Denies Reuters Reports On Factory Restart In China (ZH) • WHO Advisor Says Coronavirus May Infect Over 5 Billion People (ZH) • Senate Passes Iran War Powers Resolution Despite Trump’s Opposition (CNN) •
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DPC Wanted: 500 men to eat frankfurters (click to see sign), Bowery, Rockaway, NY 1905 • Hubei’s Coronavirus Cases Rise 10-Fold After Change In Diagnostic Criteria (SCMP) • COVID-19 Coronavirus Cases (Worldometer) • Beijing Battles ‘Crisis Of Chernobyl Proportions’ In Virus Outbreak (SCMP) • Roger Stone Sentencing Drama Roils Capitol Hill (Pol.) • Yiannopoulos to Gift Royalties From Roger Stone Book to His Defense Fund (GP) • Devin Nunes: Examples Of ‘What Mueller Team Was Really Doing’ Coming Soon
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Saul Leiter 463 1956 • Hubei’s Coronavirus Cases Rise 10-Fold After Change In Diagnostic Criteria (SCMP) • COVID-19 Coronavirus Cases (Worldometer) • Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Mortality Rate (Worldometer) • 44 More Cases On Diamond Princess Cruise Ship Anchored Off Japan (SCMP) • WHO Team Arrives In China As Wuhan Coronavirus Deaths Top SARS (CNN) • Beijing’s Purge Over Virus Takes Down Top Communist Party Officials In Hubei (SCMP) • Botched Wuhan Quarantine Left Dead Bodies In The Street (ZH)
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Dorothea Lange Daughter of white tobacco sharecropper at country store. Person County, North Carolina 1939 • China Reports 97 New Deaths, 2,059 New Cases Confirmed (SCMP) • Coronavirus Cases Fall, Experts Disagree Over Whether Peak Is Near (R.) • Japan Cruise Ship Virus Cases Jump To 175 (R.) • At Least 500 Wuhan Medical Staff Infected With Coronavirus (SCMP) • China’s Banks Face $6 Trillion Coronavirus Cataclysm (ZH) • China Home Sales Crash In First Week Of February ‘Worse
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Mathew Brady Grand Review of the Army. Units of XX Army Corps, Army of Georgia, Pennsylvania Ave. near the Treasury, Washington, DC. May 24 1865 • 3 Wuhan Officials Summoned To Explain Failings (SCMP) • China Gets Back To Work As Death Toll Reaches 1,018 (SCMP) • China Firms Cut Staff On Virus Outbreak As Xi Vows No Large-Scale Layoffs (R.) • Senior Chinese Officials ‘Removed’ As Death Toll Hits 1,000 (BBC) • Outspoken Academic Blames Xi Jinping For
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René Magritte La belle captive 1946 Today I took a few things out of my daily Debt Rattle news aggregator because I think they shouldn’t get lost in there. It’s interesting, for instance, that the coronavirus incubation period is now thought to be 24, not 14 days. It’s also interesting that the Chinese government tells local officials not to be too strict on companies wanting to re-open plants: “We will strictly stop restricting the production resumption in an
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Arnold Genthe 17th century Iglesia el Carmen, Antigua, Guatemala 1915 • Japan: 60 More Coronavirus Infections On Diamond Princess Cruise Ship (SCMP) • iPhones Will Display China’s Back-to-Work Power (R.) • Beijing Officially Declares Lockdown (GNews) • Taiwan’s Foxconn Gets OK To Restart Plant In Zhengzhou, China (R.) • Nikkei Denies Reuters Story That Foxconn Will Restart Production (ZH) • Shenzhen Denies Blocking Apple Supplier Foxconn From Resuming Production (R.) • Amazon Latest To Pull Out Of Major Barcelona
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Dorothea Lange Play street for children. Sixth Street and Avenue C, NYC June 1936 • Authorities Order Foxconn To Keep Chinese Facilities Closed (AI) • China To Stagger Back To Work As Coronavirus Deaths Surpass SARS (R.) • In-Hospital Infection Blamed In Wuhan Hospital (NHK) • Coronavirus Outbreak Has Affected 4 Different Cruise Ships (H.) • Still No Port For Cruise Ship Westerdam (NHK) • Five Britons Contract Coronavirus In French Ski Resort (R.) • Coronavirus Brings China’s Surveillance
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Marjory Collins 3rd shift workers waiting to be picked up by car pools around midnight. Baltimore April 1943 • Virus Named NCP For Now, 86 New Deaths, US Citizen Dies In Wuhan (SCMP) • Wuhan Facing ‘Wartime Conditions’ As Global Coronavirus Deaths Reach 724 (G.) • Royal Caribbean Bans All Chinese Nationals From Its Cruise Ships (G.) • Tesla Shanghai Factory To Restart On Feb 10, Authorities To Assist (R.) • White House Asks Scientists To Investigate If 2019-nCoV
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