Sunday’s date is a rare palindrome that hasn’t happened in over 900 years

A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward, such as madam, racecar, or the number 10801. Sentence-length palindromes may be written when allowances are made for adjustments to capital letters, punctuation, and word dividers, such as “A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!”, “Was it a car or a cat I saw?” or…

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A heartbreaking open letter from a Wuhan resident: “Not all Chinese are bad people”

The open letter of a young woman posted via Facebook highlighting the challenges the Wuhan people are facing now has gone viral, with thousands of people sharing her observations and heartbreak. Ms Helen Chen referred to people saying that the city’s residents deserved what had befallen them and called that “heartbreaking”. In her open letter,…

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