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Did you know...

... that the 2018 book The Longevity Diet claims that a "fast-mimicking diet" increases lifespan and healthspan?
... that one reviewer for Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century was let down by the book's lack of poetry?
... that the Cannonball, a commuter train on the Long Island Rail Road, was once operated exclusively with parlor cars?
... that a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA?
... that three first-team All-Americans – Logan Eggleston, Zoe Fleck, and Asjia O'Neal – played on the University of Texas's NCAA volleyball championship team in 2022?
... that the town of Longlac was originally founded as a North West Company trading post circa 1800?

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Selected images

Image 1The Yichang Yangtze Highway Bridge, a suspension bridge near the Gezhouba Dam lock, was completed in 1996. (from Yangtze)
Image 2USS Long as minesweeper, Oct 1943 (from USS Long)
Image 3The entirely aquatic Chinese giant salamander is the world's largest amphibian, reaching up to 1.8 m (5.9 ft) in length. (from Yangtze)
Image 4The Chinese mitten crab is a commercially important species in the Yangtze, but invasive in other parts of the world. (from Yangtze)
Image 5Yangtze in 1915 (from Yangtze)
Image 6Diagram showing dams planned for the upper reaches of the Yangtze River (from Yangtze)
Image 7A vehicle carrier on Yangtze (from Yangtze)
Image 8The cable-stayed Anqing Yangtze River Bridge at Anqing, was completed in 2005. (from Yangtze)
Image 9Barges on the river (from Yangtze)
Image 10A map of the Warring States around 350 BC, showing the former coastline of the Yangtze delta (from Yangtze)
Image 11The critically endangered Chinese alligator is one of the smallest crocodilians, reaching a maximum length of about 2 m (7 ft). (from Yangtze)
Image 12Wuhan Metro Line 2 is the first underground rail line crossing the Yangtze River. (from Yangtze)
Image 13The silver carp is native to the river, but has (like other Asian carp) been spread through large parts of the world with aquaculture. (from Yangtze)
Image 14The Imperial Japanese Navy armored cruiser Izumo in Shanghai in 1937. She sank riverboats on the Yangtze in 1941. (from Yangtze)
Image 15The "Great River" (大江) with its entrance to the East China Sea marked as the "Mouth of the Yangtze" (揚子江口) on the Jiangnan map in the 1754 Provincial Atlas of the Qing Empire (from Yangtze)
Image 16A topographical map of China depicting the Yangtze's steady course and the former route of the Yellow River south of Shandong to the Huai mouth, after its stabilization by the Grand Eunuch Li Xing's public works following the 1494 flood (from Yangtze)
Image 17USS Luzon (from Yangtze)
Image 18The Three Gorges Dam in 2006 (from Yangtze)
Image 19Map of the Yangtze river (facing west) showing the major settlements along its banks (from Yangtze)
Image 20Afternoon in the jagged mountains rising from the Yangtze River gorge (from Yangtze)
Image 21The Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge, an arch bridge, was completed in 1992. (from Yangtze)
Image 22A shipyard on the banks of the Yangtze building commercial river freight boats (from Yangtze)
Image 23Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge, the first bridge crossing Yangtze, was completed in 1957. (from Yangtze)
Image 24The Sutong Yangtze River Bridge, between Nantong and Suzhou, was one of the longest cable-stayed bridges in the world when it was completed in 2008. (from Yangtze)
Image 25The Caiyuanba Bridge, an arch bridge in Chongqing, was completed in 2007. (from Yangtze)
Image 26The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, a beam bridge, was completed in 1968. (from Yangtze)
Image 27Cruise boats on Yangtze (from Yangtze)
Image 28A container carrier on Yangtze (from Yangtze)
Image 29The two sturgeon species in the Yangtze (here Chinese sturgeon) are both seriously threatened. (from Yangtze)