In Memory of My 103-Year-Old Friend From Schiermonnikoog

Originally posted on Foundation Operation X for languages, cultures and perspectives:
Written by Dyami Millarson My teacher and friend Berend van Bon, one of the last of the Schiermonnikoog native people and one of the last speakers of Eilaunders as he called it, has left the only village of his native island and passed on…

8 dead, 9 missing as hotel collapses

At least eight people died after a hotel in eastern China collapsed, local authorities said on Tuesday. The bodies of eight people were recovered while a further nine people were missing in the rubble, the city government of Suzhou in Jiangsu province said. The Siji Kaiyuan Hotel in the city’s Wujiang District suddenly collapsed on