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    | The World War II Database
    Choshu Airfield was a military airfield located south of the town of Choshu (now Chaozhou) in southern Taiwan. It was built in the 1930s, with only grassy strips, without paved runways. After the war, the hangars and revetments were removed, and most of the land was returned to agricultural use...
    | The World War II Database
    Choshu Airfield was a military airfield located south of the town of Choshu (now Chaozhou) in southern Taiwan. It was built in the 1930s, with only grassy strips, without paved runways. After the war, the hangars and revetments were removed, and most of the land was returned to agricultural use...
    | arXiv
    The arXiv Mathematics section has updated its endorsement policy. As of December 10th, 2025, the arXiv Mathematics section will no longer accept institutional email addresses (i.e., an email address associated with an academic or research institution) as the sole qualifier for an automatic endorseme [...]
    | The World War II Database
    Tainan Airport in southern Taiwan began operations as a civilian facility in 1937. In Oct 1941, it was converted into a military airfield as the home of the newly established Tainan Air Group of the Japanese Navy. At the onset of the Pacific War, Tainan Airfield launched 44 fighters to escort J...
    | The World War II Database
    Tainan Airport in southern Taiwan began operations as a civilian facility in 1937. In Oct 1941, it was converted into a military airfield as the home of the newly established Tainan Air Group of the Japanese Navy. At the onset of the Pacific War, Tainan Airfield launched 44 fighters to escort J...
    | The World War II Database
    Tainan Airport in southern Taiwan began operations as a civilian facility in 1937. In Oct 1941, it was converted into a military airfield as the home of the newly established Tainan Air Group of the Japanese Navy. At the onset of the Pacific War, Tainan Airfield launched 44 fighters to escort J...
    | Directory of Open Access Journals
    Open Access (OA) publishing has become a feature of Asia’s scholarly landscape. The recent DOAJ Open Access in Asia webinar, organised by Senior Ambassador Vrushali Dandawate, highlighted the increase in  journal applications, the rise of Diamond OA, and the vital role of community engagement across [...]
    | arXiv
    Join arXiv! Want to make an impact on open science? Come help lead the team working on arxiv.org, one of the most integral websites for open scholarly communications and scientific discovery. arXiv is hiring for an Engineering Director. This newly created position will provide hands-on leadership an [...]
    | www.textfiles.com
    This post has two interesting aspects: It will disappear when it’s finished what it set out to do, and it’s also a fundraising for another fundraiser. This is the 20th anniversary of the BBS Documentary, my 2005 released DVD box set. The work was always open licensed and it can be downloaded very ea [...]
    | www.textfiles.com
    This first paragraph is a paradox. I want you to go to a funding campaign and click on a button and support a project. But the project is one that expects you to be the kind of person who loves reading. I personally think there might be a slight amount of people who don’t have […]
    | www.textfiles.com
    One can choose to focus on the car crash, or the lessons learned from the car crash. Let’s do a little of both. The proposition of the Living Computer Museum was initially simple, and rather amusing in a Slashdot-baity sort of way: You could apply to get an account on a real, actual ancient Mainfram [...]
    | www.textfiles.com
    Imagine, if you will, a vast river. It flows fast, so fast that when you look away and look back it’s in many ways an entirely different river, not just a slightly different one. It used to be blue with an occasional brown or black. Nowadays, it’s basically brown and black and a signficant amount [… [...]
    | The Chinese Text Project
    Thanks to the support of Harvard Yenching Library, over 5 million pages of scanned materials from the Yenching Library collection have been added to the Library section of the site, including high quality images from the Chinese Rare Books Collection. Approximate transcriptions created using the cte [...]
    | The Chinese Text Project
    A new version of the Unicode standard has been released, defining thousands of additional rarely used and variant Chinese characters. Support for these has been added to the dictionary section of the site; to view these characters, please install the latest version of the Hanazono font. Many new cha [...]
    | The Chinese Text Project
    The dictionary section of the site has been updated to make better use of English translations. Dictionary pages now cite English translations of example sentences together with the corresponding Chinese examples. Additionally, dictionary look-ups for passages of texts that have English translations [...]
    | The Chinese Text Project
    The Wiki section of the site provides online browsing and full-text search for numerous texts not yet included in the textual database. Since some of these texts have not yet been adequately proofread, users are invited to help in the process of correcting these texts using a Wiki interface, and enc [...]
    | Academic Torrents
    Version 6 of the Coral Reef Temperature Anomaly Database (CoRTAD) is a global, 4 km, sea surface temperature (SST) and related thermal stress metrics dataset for 1982-01-02 to 2022-12-30. The CoRTAD contains weekly-averaged SSTs, SST anomaly (SSTA, weekly SST minus weekly climatological SST), therma [...]
    | Academic Torrents
    Reddit comments and submissions from 2025-05 Documentation, json schemas and more can be found at https://github.com/ArthurHeitmann/arctic_shift Helper scripts for processing files can be found at https://github.com/Watchful1/PushshiftDumps
    | Academic Torrents
    Contains roughly 1200 datasets from the VA Open Data catalog, as made available through the data.json. Excludes datasets that have no public downloads. Also includes a _failures.csv for download links that lead to 404 errors, for posterity. About Open Data (from site): Open data is VA data that is f [...]
    | Academic Torrents
    The Argo Ocean Profiling Network is a global ocean observing system developed to address the lack of data coverage in parts of the world ocean, as well as the need for regular capture intervals to enable both short and long-term climate predictions. NCEI operates and manages the Global Argo Data Rep [...]
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