Spring has come back to the world

Everything comes back to life as the cold winter ends and spring returns to the earth.

a large landowner; someone who owns a vast amount of land and typically lives off the rent paid by tenant farmers

Das Lied von der Erde, a famous orchestral song cycle composed by Gustav Mahler

The starting point used by a national astronomical agency to calculate geodetic coordinates, such as longitude and latitude; also called [[大地基准点|大地基準點|da4 di4 ji1 zhun3 dian3]]

a reference point or set of coordinates used as a basis for calculating geodetic positions such as longitude and latitude

the hypothetical shape of the earth, coinciding with mean sea level and its imagined extension under or over land areas

large cave or cavern

the branch of geography or mathematics dealing with the size and shape of the earth

the shortest path between two points on a curved surface; a geodesic curve

The massive earthquake that occurred in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008

A massive geological trench stretching from the Red Sea through East Africa, spanning about 4,000 miles to Mozambique.

The massive earthquake that struck Shaanxi Province on February 2, 1556, resulting in an estimated 830,000 deaths

The massive earthquake that occurred in July 1976 in the Tangshan and Fengnan area of Hebei province; it is one of the deadliest earthquakes in history, with a death toll of approximately 250,000.

the massive earthquake that occurred in Sichuan province, China, in May 2008