Learning some history from street names

[elusivek]

I was out running and saw this street name pillar along my running route and was thinking who this Henry Dunant was. I know that some streets in Macau are named after important/notable/historical figures that have been in Macau, such as George Chinnery, Matteo Ricci and such, but Henry Dunant?

So in my brief research, I can only say that this Henry Dunant has not been in Macau. He is also the founder of the Red Cross. And as you all know, I'm a lazy person, so I'm not going to summarize anything. I'll just link to the Wikipedia article about him right here. I'm not sure if it is INCIDENTALLY or if it's PURPOSEFULLY, the Red Cross headquarters in Macau is practically 5 or so minutes away on foot from this location.

I found a random video of this too.

This "viewing point" (that's what a Miradouro is) is also colloquially known as 半邊橙, literally "half an orange" because of its semisphericle shape. This used to look out to the sea. Now, a road is built across, making the water area a lake instead. In the video, you see a really tall building in the far opposite end, that's China already, a newly super-developing area that's sprouting buildings like mushrooms.

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[loveshanny.livejournal.com]

hmm intersting