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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...arian-based Chinese an advantage over neighboring nomadic and mountain-dwelling cultures. The developm...
7: ...and administrators: in short, civilization as we know it. In late [[Neolithic]] times, the [[Huang He]...
14: ...torical Records]]'' written by [[Sima Qian]], a renowned Chinese historiographer of the [[2nd century ...
18: ...aracter]]s, but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records to match the Shang [[oracle...
24: ...he early Zhou (successor state of the Shang), is known to have existed at the same time as the Shang. - Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...is journeying covered almost the entirety of the known Islamic world, extending also to present-day [[...
4: ... the appellation '''Shams ad-Din''', a title or honorific at times given to the names of scholars part...
8: ... following account assumes the former where it is not obviously the latter.
13: ...is journey to Mecca was by land, and followed the North African coast of the [[Maghreb]] region quite ...
17: ...ed to the status of ''[[al-Hajji]]'' as a result, now faced his return home. Upon reflection, he decid... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...eginning in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
3: ...e existed and are viewed as having succeeded one another in [[continent]]al [[East Asia]] for the last...
5: ...decades were marred by warlordism, the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chinese Civil War]].
7: ...some islands in the South China Sea. The PRC does not recognize the ROC, as it claims to be the sole s...
9: ==Terminology== - Religion in China (12456 bytes)
5: ... of a sacred and sometimes spiritual world yet do not invoke a concept of [[God]], classifying a Chine...
7: ...stian concepts into Buddhism while the reverse is not necessarily the case.
11: ...rt in performing elaborate annual rituals. He was not believed to be a [[deity]], but rather someone w...
13: Minor religions introduced from abroad include [[Islam...
28: ...ing]] is attributed to [[Lao Zi]], who may or may not have been a real person. The philosophy is cent... - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
2: She was born in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]] to Dr Antony David Kidman and Janel...
3: ... took on a lectureship at the [[University of Technology, Sydney]].
8: ...School]], but dropped out when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, as Kidman concentrated on ...
10: ...he appeared in ''[[Dead Calm]]'' which gained her notice in the United States.
13: ... The couple adopted two children, Isabella and Connor, and lived in [[Los Angeles, California]], [[Aus... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
1: ...ix.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[Great Western Railway]] No. 6833 ''Calcot Grange'', a [[4-6-0]] [[GWR 6800 C...
3: ...ce or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
12: ... a new one. Failure of the motive power unit does not require taking the whole train out of service.
13: * ''Efficiency'' - idle trains do not waste expensive motive power resources. Separat...
14: ...omotives have become obsolete when their cars are not, or vice versa. - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...ea]]. Kazakhstan is also a former republic of the now extinct [[Soviet Union]].
70: ...at-e Turkestan|Turkestan]] were founded along the northern route of the [[Silk Road|Great Silk Road]] ...
72: ... had developed a common language, culture, and economy. In the early [[1600s]], the Kazakh Khanate sep...
74: ...d over most of the territory belonging to what is now the Republic of Kazakhstan.
76: ...ditional nomadic lifestyle and livestock-based economy. The Kazakh national movement, which began in t... - People's Republic of China (40848 bytes)
1: ... considerably [[privatization|privatized]] its economy in the past three decades. Politically, it rem...
6: ... term "[[mainland China]]" is sometimes used to denote the area under the PRC's rule, usually excludin...
17: ... or caused millions of deaths, incurred severe economic costs, and damaged China's cultural heritage. ...
19: ...]], [[Deng Xiaoping]] and others who initiated economic reforms.
21: ...tioning China's planned economy into a [[mixed economy]]. - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ... [[Europe]]. It is bordered to the north by the [[North Sea]], [[Denmark]], and the [[Baltic Sea]], to...
51: ...ages per the [[European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages|ECRML]].<br>
57: ...e [[G8]] nations and a founding member of what is now the [[European Union]].
62: ...o back more than a thousand years, the state now known as Germany was unified as a modern nation-state...
66: ...ading state of Germany, from the more western and northern parts. - Culture of China (15738 bytes)
5: ...to find a new system of social, political, and economic organization that would allow for the reintegr...
10: ...ost remembered for their bronze casting art work, noted for its clarify of detail. Early Chinese musi...
12: ...e 8th century. Around this period, several well known Chinese poets influenced Chinese poetry, which ...
16: ...giving an impressionistic treatment of natural phenomena. It was during this period, painting emphasi...
18: ...opera is introduced which is considered the best known form of Chinese opera. Qing poetry was marked ... - Silk Road (23757 bytes)
3: ...]] or through the [[Levant]] into [[Egypt]] and [[North Africa]].
5: These exchanges were critical not only for the development and flowering of the gr...
11: ...y as circa [[11th century BC|1100 BC]], and the [[nomads]] of the vast Eurasian [[steppe]]-lands had d...
18: ...cient world – [[Badakshan]], in what is now northeastern [[Afghanistan]] – as far as [[Mes...
20: ...be the oldest [[shipbuilding|sea-faring]] harbor known. - Skyscraper (12706 bytes)
9: ...destroyed in [[1931]] for the Field's building. Another contender for the title is the 1892 ten-story...
19: ...does not include free-standing buildings that are not classified as high rises, such as the [[CN Tower...
21: ...given is the highest architectural detail and may not be highest point on building.)
36: |5||[[Jin Mao Tower]]||[[Shanghai]]||421 m||1,380 ft||88||1998 ||
115: |36||[[Plaza 66]]||Shanghai||288 m||945 ft||66||2001 || - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
3: ...was awarded the [[1921]] [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize for Physics]] for his explanation of the...
5: ...y other scientist in [[history of science and technology|history]], and in [[popular culture]], ''Eins...
14: ...art-Bad Cannstatt. The family was [[Jew]]ish (and non-observant); Albert attended a [[Catholic school|...
16: ...he was able to apply a more developed intellect. Another, more recent, theory about his mental develop...
20: ...ote from a friendly doctor, but this meant he had no secondary-school certificate. {{an|1}} - Airline (29546 bytes)
11: ... that are usually decades apart. This pattern has not been completed for all airlines in all regions.
13: ...isure passenger demand, all influenced by macroeconomic activity in the markets under study. These pat...
15: ...d through the 1980's and 1990's. Growth rates are not consistent in all regions, but certainly areas w...
17: ...d demand. Since 1980, the industry as a whole has not even earned back the cost of capital during the ...
19: ...ater consolidation, in order to achieve higher economies of scale and greater efficiencies. - Ballet (9155 bytes)
1: ...Image:snowdance.jpg|250px|thumb|The Waltz of the Snowflakes from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker]]
3: ...alone or as part of an [[opera]]. Ballet is best known for its [[virtuoso]] techniques such as [[point...
5: ... publication of [[Fabritio Caroso]]'s ''Il Ballarino'', a technical manual on ballet dancing that help...
11: ...Royale de Musique, where instruction was based on noble deportment and manners.
13: ...is advance was the seminal work of [[Jean-Georges Noverre]], ''Lettres sur la danse et les ballets'' (... - Chinese River Dolphin (4152 bytes)
14: {{Taxobox_section_binomial | color = pink | binomial_name = Lipotes vexillifer | author = [[Gerrit...
23: ==The chronology of the species' rapid decline==
31: ...land]] near [[Shanghai]] in [[1998]], but she did not eat any provided food and starved to death withi...
39: ...ill be extinct by the end of the decade, if it is not already. - Chinese cabbage (3372 bytes)
5: ...obox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: ...{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]}}
12: ..._section_binomial_botany | color = lightgreen | binomial_name = Brassica rapa, chinensis group| author...
19: ...ange of varieties within these two groups. The binomial name ''B. campestris'' is also used.
21: ...p name indicates, this is particularly popular in northern China around [[Beijing]] (Peking), as well ... - Korean art (25186 bytes)
4: ...ated across traditional western borders, and does not fit into specific categories, this article aims ...
6: ...st, there are no simple categories of art that do not obtrude directly into other arts. All Korean art...
8: ...vals and concentric circles. It is interesting to note that most of these geometric patterns have thei...
21: ... of art in combination with other arts. There was no "pure art", but always arts in assemblage. This a...
23: ...ind the plays, ornaments woven or embroidered or knotted to indicate rank, position, or as shamanistic... - Bicycle (44267 bytes)
7: ...ing technologies, while more recently bicycle technology has contributed in turn to other, newer areas...
13: ... as the earliest bicycle. Most bicycle historians now believe that these unsteerable hobby-horses prob...
17: ...Shod with solid rubber tires, his machine became known as the ''ordinary''. British cyclists likened ...
19: ... producing rear-wheel drive. These models were known as ''dwarf safeties'', or ''safety bicycles'', ...
23: ...smaller wheels made for a bumpy ride. The next innovations increased comfort and ushered in the [[189... - List of steel producers (917 bytes)
10: # [[Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation]] ([[China]])
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