I got talking to the sergeant-major of a camp near Ottowa a couple of years back, and he told me that he'd just been moved from his last posting at Vancouver - he decided to drive, and it took him two weeks. By that map, that's about the same as driving from Madrid to Damascus. For those of us used to European scale, Canada is huge.
He drove slow. But Canada is huge. Even the closer parts of Canada are huge. I took a week once to drive around Nova Scotia alone, and didn't get everywhere. And 95% of it has hardly any people at all in it. It takes 4 hours to drive between Montreal to Quebec city, and those are 2 of the cities which are "near" one another.
The Cultural Revolution began fifty years ago tomorrow. It was a time of madness, slaughter and cannibalism. Here is a timeline. You will note Nixon and Kissinger visited just as all this was going on and didn't say a thing.
They may be counting the others as variations on the main colors. Like hazel to black would fall under the category of brown, gray would fall under blue, that sort of thing.
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