Britain’s King Kong: a history of Nicholas Monro’s King Kong

Hazard assessment of debris flows for Leung King Estateof Hong Kong by incorporating GIS with numericalsimulations

As over seventy percent of the land of Hong Kong is mountainous, rainfall-induced debris flows are not uncommon in Hong Kong. The objective of this study is to incorporate numerical simulations of debris flows with GIS to identify potential debris flow hazard areas. To illustrate this approach, the proposed methodology is applied to Leung King Estate in Tuen Mun. A Digital Elevation Model (DEM)...

History of Asbestos Ban in Hong Kong

As millions of immigrants moved to Hong Kong (HK) from China in the recent decades, large amount of residential housings were built in the early years and a substantial proportion of those buildings used asbestos-containing materials (ACMs). Since the number of new cases of ARDs diagnosed has increased year by year since 1990's, the remarkable increase of incidences had drawn the attention of t...

Diagnosis for a King

Barton reviews a book based on extensive medical/historical detective work which suggests that the King suffered from a rare physical illness which baffled his doctors and made his later life a misery. a common cause of discoloration of urine is inges-tion of rhubarb and senna, drugs frequently administered to George III during his illness. A rare cause is porphyria. A common form of 'madness' ...

Happiness in Plato’s Theory of Philosopher- King

Plato in Theory of Philosopher-King believes that all of the members of ideal city-state, whether ruler or citizens, will attain happiness if the philosopher is the ruler. But there are paradoxes in the theory and the bases of the happiness are unstable too. In other words, Plato in his theory presents hierarchical dualities (Intelligible/Visible world, Episteme/ Doxa,True/ Untrue Or Shadow, …)...

King of the elements?