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- Religion in China (12456 bytes)
13: Minor religions introduced from abroad include [[Islam]] and [[Christianity]].
23: ...by emperors. Estimate of Buddhists in China range from 70 million to 150 million.
44: In [[1289]], [[Franciscan]] friars from Europe initiated mission work in China. This mi...
46: ... attempt to reach China was made in [[1552]] by [[Francis Xavier]], but he died the same year on the C...
50: ...ed to send missionaries until they were prevented from doing so following the establishment of the [[P... - Empress Wu (14478 bytes)
9: ...r]].<br>———<br>1. Year deducted from the age at death given in the<br>[[New Book of ...
10: ...r>941-945, is [[623]]. The year of birth deducted from the<br>[[Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Govern...
14: ...r Shengshen''' (聖神皇帝) from [[690]] to [[705]]. Her rise and reign has been...
16: ...ang (楊氏) ([[579]]-[[670]]), a woman from the [[Sui Dynasty|Sui]] imperial family. Wu Zet...
20: ... new beautiful concubine would divert the emperor from the concubine [[n饝] Xiao. Modern historians d... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: ...ize]] and the [[Sakharov Prize|Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought]]. In [[1991]] she won the [[Nobe...
6: ...[[Aung San]], who negotiated Burma's independence from Britain in [[1947]] and was [[assassination|ass...
8: ...ed Kingdom]] and at the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], [[University of London]]. While in...
12: ...der [[house arrest]] in [[1989]]. She was offered freedom if she would leave the country, but she refu...
16: ... He died in March [[1999]]. She remains separated from their children, who remain in the UK. - Ching Shih (2491 bytes)
1: [[fr:Ching Shih]]
6: ...teal from them. It was a capital offense to steal from the treasury. Raping female captives was a capi...
8: ...cted on him, O-po-tae sought a pardon for his men from the government and it was granted. Ching Shih a... - List of national capitals (10847 bytes)
33: <tr><td>[[Bangui]] <td>[[Central African Republic]]
44: <tr><td>[[Bloemfontein]] <td>[[South Africa]] (judicial)
58: <tr><td>[[Cape Town]] <td>[[South Africa]] (legislative)
80: <tr><td>[[Freetown]] <td>[[Sierra Leone]]
161: <tr><td>[[Paris]] <td>[[France]] - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ...y, it remains a one-party [[authoritarian]] state from its true communist days.
15: ...time in a century, and there was development of infrastructure, industry, healthcare, and education, w...
19: ...r. Mao remained head of the Party but was removed from day to day management of economic affairs which...
23: ...ut) and a much wider range of personal rights and freedoms for average Chinese as evidence of the succ...
27: ...ost Chinese dissidents living abroad, many people from Hong Kong or Taiwan, ethnic minorities like Tib... - Malaysia (27892 bytes)
43: | From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]<br>[[August 31]], [[1...
66: ...wly-built [[Putrajaya]]</small><br> <small>2. 020 from [[Singapore]]</small>
76: The earliest recorded Malay kingdoms grew from coastal city-ports established in the [[10th ce...
78: ...by a prince (Parameswara) from Palembang who fled from the island Temasek (now known as Singapore). Wi...
82: ...formed. These settlements were collectively ruled from the [[British East India Company]] seat of gove... - Culture of China (15738 bytes)
10: ... religion. Early forms of art in China were made from pottery, jade and by bronze casting in the Shan...
14: ... latter who introduced the stanza form. Painting from the Tang dynasty period mainly consisted of lan...
29: ...s a sense of grandeur; this applies to everything from palaces to farmhouses. One notable exception is...
38: ...sty]]. Artifact circulating in US museums on loan from Beijing]]
83: ...] - [[Shanghai cuisine]] - [[Soy sauce]] - [[Stir frying]] - [[Szechuan cuisine]] - [[Szechuan pepper]... - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
46: *[[Frank Yates|Yates, Frank]], ([[1902]]-[[1994]]), statistician
48: ...[[1747]]-[[1826]]), Continental Congress delegate from [[New York]]
57: *[[Yazdegerd I of Persia]], from [[399]] to [[420]].
58: *[[Yazdegerd II of Persia]], from [[438]] to [[457]].
59: *[[Yazdegerd III of Persia]], from [[632]] to [[651]]. - Space exploration (14877 bytes)
3: ==From fiction to fact==
11: From a spaceflight perspective, the definition of sp...
15: ... The first [[organisms]] launched into space were fruit flies and corn seeds aboard a U.S.-launched V2...
22: The [[Canadian Space Agency]] (CSA or, in French, the ASC) is the government department respon...
56: Space exploration has come under criticism from people. One of the most common charges is that ... - Astronaut (7339 bytes)
3: ... are said to hold [[astronaut wings]]. Astronauts from at least [[Timeline of astronauts by nationalit...
7: ...74;т ''(kosmonavt)'', which in turn derives from the Greek words ''kosmos,'' meaning "universe" ...
11: ...alled '''spationauts''' (a [[hybrid word]] formed from the Latin ''spatium'', "space", and Greek ''nau...
13: ... The term was coined in May 1998 by Chiew Lee Yih from [[Malaysia]], who used it first in [[newsgroup]...
20: ...nd [[Franklin Chang-Diaz]]. The furthest distance from Earth an astronaut has traveled was 401,056 km ... - Great Wall of China (10504 bytes)
1: ...groups in Chinese history|nomadic tribes]] coming from areas now in modern day [[Mongolia]] and [[Manc...
3: ...formidable [[1 E6 m|6,350 km]] (3,946 [[mile]]s), from [[Shanhai Pass]] on the [[Bohai Gulf]] in the e...
12: # [[1368]]-[[1620]] (from [[Hongwu Emperor]] until [[Wanli Emperor]] of t...
46: ...uction. Near [[Beijing]] the wall is constructed from [[quarry|quarried]] [[limestone]] blocks. In ot...
48: ...od materials are scarce, the wall was constructed from dirt rammed between rough wood tied together wi... - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...Empire'') was the ruling [[dynasty]] of [[China]] from [[1368]] to [[1644]], though claims to the Ming...
5: [[Image:Hung-wu.jpg|framed|left|Hongwu Emperor]]
8: ...one of the only two dynastic founders who emerged from the [[peasant]] class, the other being [[Han Ga...
12: ...ded estate]]s were confiscated by the government, fragmented, and rented out; and private slavery was ...
16: ...on of Hongwu, who ruled as the Emperor [[Yongle]] from [[1403]] to [[1424]] and was responsible for mo... - Chinese dragon (7565 bytes)
11: ...lly depicted with bat-like wings grown out of the front limbs, but most do not have wings.
21: ...ugh dragons originated in China, the further away from China a dragon went the fewer toes it had, and ...
27: ...considered lucky in China and Chinese dragons are frequently connected with it. For example, a Chinese...
38: ...mage:LongPao.JPG|thumbnail|right|An imperial robe from Qing Dynasty]]
42: ...another legend might tell of the prince in hiding from his enemies who is identified by his dragon bir... - Bodhisattva (7734 bytes)
14: ... is the list of ten bhumis and their descriptions from ''The Jewel Ornament of Liberation'', a treatis...
16: ...five paths, which are said to correspond to words from the [[mantra]] that appears at the end of the [...
30: ...lishing the second bhumi, the bodhisattva is free from the stains of immorality, therefore, this bhumi...
32: ...his bhumi, the light of Dharma is said to radiate from the bodhisattva for others. The emphasized virt...
52: ...ight|Relief image of the bodhisattva [[Guan Yin]] from [[Mt. Jiuhua]] in [[China]]'s [[Anhui]] provinc... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
24: *[[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] (France, [[1717]] - [[1783]])
28: *[[Andr魍arie Amp貥]], (France, [[1775]] - [[1836]])
35: *[[Antoine Arbogast]] (France, [[1759]] - [[1803]])
38: *[[Jean-Robert Argand]] (France, [[1768]] - [[1822]])
46: *[[Michael Francis Atiyah]] (Britain, [[1929]] - ) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
9: *[[Jacob Friedrich von Abel]], (1751-1829)
55: *[[Francesco Algarotti]], (1712-1764)
62: *[[Henri-Fr餩ric Amiel]], (1821-1881)
109: *[[Georg Anton Friedrich Ast]], (1778-1841)
122: *[[Alfred Ayer|Alfred Jules Ayer]], (1910-1989){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R... - Shinto (25829 bytes)
7: ...ese theories range from hypothesizes of migration from [[central Asia]] or [[Indonesia]] that are acce...
11: .... Much of the area of modern Japan was under only fragmentary control by the Imperial family, and riva...
15: ..., parts of the mythology were explicitly borrowed from Chinese doctrines. (For example, the co-creator...
35: ... Taoism, Buddhism, or Confucianism, but some come from ancient local traditions.
50: ...terlife are seen as complementing each other, and frequently the ritual practice of one will have an o... - Genghis Khan (31537 bytes)
19: ...oden collar around his neck. He escaped with help from a sympathetic captor. His mother, Hoelun, taugh...
21: ...], was born suspiciously soon after she was freed from the Merkit, leading to questions regarding the ...
43: ... of honor. Generally, the Mongol Empire was also friendly to outside trade along the [[Silk Road]], a...
53: ...ounted archers to attack their enemies on several fronts at once.
59: ...tely under his dominion, in order to prevent them from challenging the Mongols for territory and resou... - Fire Bellied Toads (4319 bytes)
19: ...sc-shaped tongue, contrary to the other toads and frogs). Differences in morphology, biology and behav...
23: Their name derives from the brightly coloured red and yellow patterns o...
40: ... European Fire-Bellied Toad, ''Bombina bombina'', from eastern Europe and Asia are able to interbreed ...
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