Search results for "Summer Palace" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Chinese Communist Party committees. By the summer of 1968, Mao had achieved ... in secret amongst the ruins of the Old Summer Palace. The group chose the ...
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  • from 50°F to 54°F (10°C to 12°C) and summer temperatures from 75°F to ... sixteenth century as an Ottoman fort and a palace for the local ruler, the ...
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  • introduction to emperorship began when palace officials arrived at his ... Private Apartments) as well as in the Summer Palace. A hefty annual subsidy ...
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  • Mr. Hyde on the terrace of the Excelsior Palace Hotel.[https://www.labiennale ... In 1947 the festival was held in the courtyard of the Doge's ...
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  • movie industry could match. Her screen to palace story was a real life romance ... the bronze medal he won at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Kelly Drive in ...
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  • In the summer of 1238, Batu Khan devastated the Crimea and subdued ... swept the plains of Hungary over the summer and in the spring of 1242 ...
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  • includes the poetical Farewell to the Sea, Palace of the White Skunks, Singing ... In the summer of 1973, Arenas was robbed at the beach. This contact ...
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  • people can safely use them to cool off in on hot summer days. ... by Alexander Pushkin) in the Khan Palace in Bakhchisaray, Crimean ...
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  • did not, at that time, live in the Grand Palace. Empress Teishi resided in ... Sei Shonagon’s daily life in the palace; and musings and poetry on ...
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  • Hermitage Theater, next door to the Winter Palace, was used to host performances ... of darkness practically disappear as the summer solstice approaches. ...
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  • In the summer of 1971, tension built up between the two Cypriot communities ... bishops and had them defrocked in the summer of 1973. Before choosing ...
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  • blossoms in spring, cuckoos sing in the summer, autumns insects chirp, and ... to them. In a welcoming procession at the palace one day, Zoga girded himself ...
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  • Kyoto is famous for its stifling summer nights with no breezes. Kyoto ... Chinese geomancy, with the Imperial Palace facing south. The Imperial ...
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  • religions, in 2003 and 2006. A Palace of Peace and Consent, a stone ... * Coish, Summer, and Lucy Kelaart. A hedonist's guide to Almaty ...
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  • in May 1954, and construction began that summer. It was one of the largest ... or no thermocline during the mid to late summer months. ...
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  • for most of the year, but swells in summer due to melting snows. ... Royce, and lived in the famous Darul Aman Palace. In 1919, after the Third ...
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  • #039;s colonial past, the Presidential Palace, the metropolitan municipal ... Lima, it is surrounded by the Government Palace, the Cathedral of Lima, the ...
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  • defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in the summer of 1690, he returned to France ... of France, was born at St. James's Palace in 1633 and created Duke ...
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  • The city boasts four World Heritage Sites: The Palace of Westminster ... north of the Alps, a governor's palace, temples, bath houses, amphitheatre ...
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  • the Entz-Kinzelbergers, who lived in a palace on the Herrengasse 8, where ... one for a middle-class family life; in the summer of 1902, Rilke left home ...
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