I’m not sure what all this is about, but it is going around (can anyone tell me where this bizarre idea comes from?) and I just don’t want to be left out of a fun game:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
除加強偽軍力外，日軍與汪政權也加緊建軍，其中重點是改遍原有偽軍，組建新軍與收遍受到日軍和共軍雙重壓迫的國府雜牌正規軍。 (劉熙明 偽軍－強權競逐下的卒子 1937-1949)
“In addition to strengthening puppet forces, the Japanese military and the Wang Jingwei regime also sped up the building of military forces, some important elements of which were the reorganizing of existing puppet military forces, the establishment of new units and the organization of units put together from ragtag Nationalist government troops that had been attacked by Japanese and Communist forces.” (Zhang Ximing, The Puppet Army – Pawns in the Struggle for Power 1937-1949)
Technically, there was also another book equally near at hand, from which I could have extracted the following marginally less interesting fifth sentence on page 23:
“He received as a reward the rank of marshal but struggled incessantly against efforts on the part of the Peking government to undermine his authority in Shansi.” (Gillin, Donald. Warlord: Yen Hsi-shan in Shansi Province 1911-1949)
“Werner suggested that astronomers should map the positions of the stars along the moon’s path and predict when the moon would brush by each one-on every moonlit night, month to month, for years to come.” Sobel, Dava. Longitude
The German astronomer Johannes Werner struck on a way to use the motion of the moon as a location finder.
“Werner suggested that astronomers should map the positions of the stars along the moon’s path and predict when the moon would brush by each one-on every moonlit night, month to month, for years to come.” Sobel, Dava. Longitude
The German astronomer Johannes Werner struck on a way to use the motion of the moon as a location finder.