The Longest Promise - Netflix Series

ENG SUB】Xiao Zhan | The Longest Promise’s new trailer.
肖战影音会DAYTOY•Xiao Zhan

Chinese historical fantasy drama romance. We stepped off our well trod path of Chinese history dramas into fantasyland and were pleasantly surprised. 

Normally I am not too keen on fantasy, I like my stories firmly rooted in reality, though I will allow things that might be plausible in the future. But this show is none of that, we have all kinds of magic, and then I remembered Arthur C. Clarke's third law:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

We are surrounded by all kinds of whiz-bang doo-dads these days and I suspect that most people have no idea how they work, and moreover, they don't care. So to them, modern life is a lot like watching this Chinese fantasy.

Peiying has a fine review here.

The show has some spectacular scenery, but the pace is glacial. I think I slept through about half of it.

43 episodes

Funnies

10 Short Videos #6188

10 Short Videos #6188

One of America’s Most Unusual Shipping Routes 💥😮 - Miami River

How Invisible Grooves Control Lens Zoom📷

THE 1930S ICE TRAY THAT MANY STILL CONSIDER THE BEST TO THIS DAY

The Lost Standard of an A-Tech ⚠️

Multi Directional Folding Slopes📐

Constructing a Roof Frame with Precast Concrete Purlins

Paragliding acrobatics & landing

Air Powered Lamp 💡

Old School Way To Straighten Heavy Metal Tracks🪝

リサイクルガラスからビー玉ができるまで - From recycled glass to marbles

Kompozitor Rakhmaninov

Kompozitor Rakhmaninov at the Port Olya in Astrakhan Oblast, Russia

Came across this image and wondered if Google could place it, and you can see that it did. Port Olya is at the head of Reka Bakhtemir, a long channel that extends a long way into the Caspian Sea, kind of like the way the Mississippi River delta extends in the Gulf of Mexico, er, America.

Reka Bakhtemir is the westernmost primary distributary of the Volga River delta in the Astrakhan Oblast of Russia. Spanning a length of about 47 miles, it funnels the majority of commercial shipping traffic from the Volga into the Caspian Sea.

Volga River is the principal waterway of western Russia and the historic cradle of the Russian state. Its basin contains almost half of the entire population of the Russian Republic. Starting northwest of Moscow, the Volga discharges into the Caspian Sea, some 2,000 miles to the south. It drops from its source at 750 feet above sea level to its mouth at 90 feet below sea level.

Port Olya Reka Bakhtemir
Map is about 50 miles top to bottom

Information collected from Google, Brittanica & Wikipedia

Funnies

10 Short Videos #6187

10 Short Videos #6187

RC boat race

Beer mug action

Our 80 wire diameter hot coil big Fried Dough Twists - coiling hot steel

How a Hummingbird Shakes Off a Bee

Bad shock absorber mount makes car shake

Ab Challenge at the Circus Center in Vegas

Aircrafts with normal evacuation slides vs the a380

Торцевая разделочная доска «Кубиста», материалы дуб, клен, амарант, зебрано - End-grain cutting board "Kubista" made of oak, maple, amaranth, and zebrawood

Fengbao Finger Dance & Sing Cover Cheering Crane Fairy Dance Original Choreography 2026

Amazing factory 🏭 work

The Battle of Terheide by Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten

The Battle of Terheide by Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraaten, 1660

From Google:

The Battle of Terheide (also known as the Battle of Scheveningen) was the final, decisive naval engagement of the First Anglo-Dutch War. Fought on August 10, 1653, between the English Commonwealth and the Dutch Republic, the clash successfully broke the crippling English blockade of the Dutch coast, though it cost the Dutch their legendary commander, Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp.

At that time, the population of England was about five million people and the population of the Netherlands was about two million.

From Wikipedia:

Both sides claimed a victory: the English because of their tactical superiority, the Dutch because the strategic goal of their attack, the lifting of the blockade, had been achieved.

Belligerents
English Commonwealth	Dutch Republic
Commanders and leaders
George Monck  Benjamin Blake	Maarten Tromp †
Strength
130 ships[1] 4,000 guns 17,000 men[2]	125 ships[1] 3,450 guns 13,000 men[2]
Casualties and losses
950–1,200 killed and wounded 2 ships lost [1][3]	2,000 killed and wounded 1,000 captured 12-30 ships lost[2][1]

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