Search results for "Languages of China" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Long) (ca. 320 B.C.E.–250 B.C.E. was one of the best known representatives ... Gongsun Long is best known for a series of paradoxes in the tradition ...14 KB (2,308 words) - 04:14, 24 May 2024
- The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 ... universal access to and the understanding of law serves an important role ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
- The Aksumite Empire or Axumite Empire (sometimes called the Kingdom ... to climate change and to defeat at the hands of Judith, a legendary Jewish Queen. ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- ) is a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period of ... and the editing, revising, and collating of them was organized under official ...31 KB (4,609 words) - 00:37, 3 May 2023
- The Independent State of Papua New Guinea (informally, Papua New Guinea ... defined as Melanesia. With a land area of 452,860 square kilometers, ...23 KB (3,412 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized map of human migration based on Mitochondrial ... prehistory and human history. The movement of populations in modern times ...28 KB (4,050 words) - 16:22, 23 December 2022
- graphẽ "writing") is a form of ornamental handwriting ... may take precedence over the legibility of the letters. Well-crafted calligraphy ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- landscape shaped by the dissolution of a soluble layer or layers of ... Different terms for karst topography exist in other languages—for ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
- the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken ... Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the tenth ...41 KB (5,525 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- a student leader. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature ... He is recognized as the leading architect of Burmese independence, and the ...17 KB (2,666 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- strong). Officially known as the Union of Myanmar, (also as Burma or ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh ( t=水滸傳|s=水浒传|p=Shuǐhǔ ... ) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature ...17 KB (2,616 words) - 23:16, 3 May 2023
- in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-L'este ... at 50 percent in 2001. About 42 percent of the East Timorese live below ...25 KB (3,519 words) - 16:40, 26 March 2024
- yoga")Lindsay Jones (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed. (Macmillan ... The origins of the scholarly Indian Yogācāra tradition were rooted ...17 KB (2,529 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- Xīyóu-jì; Wade-Giles: Hsiyu-chi) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels ... The novel tells the entertaining story of the Buddhist monk Xuánzàng ...24 KB (3,989 words) - 01:59, 8 September 2022
- and formerly Vietnamese. Four percent of Chinese characters are derived ... parts where one indicates a general category of meaning and the other the sound ...55 KB (8,141 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- graphein - write) is the study and practice of making representations of the ... both a science and an art. The aesthetics of any given map will always be ...27 KB (4,007 words) - 00:45, 29 November 2023
- a gorge, valley, road, railroad track, body of water, or other physical obstacle ... The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge ...14 KB (2,066 words) - 20:15, 11 March 2024
- Vietnam officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a nation in ... to 1975 brought Vietnam to the attention of the world. That war has been ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 20:16, 3 May 2023
