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  • The Spring and Autumn Period (春秋時代, Chūnqiū Shídài) was a period in Chinese history, which roughly corresponds to the first half ...
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  • Raku (樂) or Rakuyaki (樂焼き) is a form of Japanese pottery characterized by simple, hand-formed bowls, low firing temperatures resulting ...
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  • Monarchs in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea are descended from Emperor Taejo of the Jeonju Lee lineage. Joseon Monarchs ruled Korea for 500 years ...
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  • The Shaolin Monastery or Shaolin Temple ( c=少林寺 |p=Shàolínsì ), is a Chan Buddhist temple at Song Shan in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province ...
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  • The Jade Emperor (玉皇 (Yù Huáng) or 玉帝 (Yù Dì)), known informally as Heavenly Grandfather (天公 (Tiān Gōng)) and formally as the ...
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  • In World War II, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, executed from ...
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  • Yi I (1536-1584), known as "Yulgok" according to his pen name, which means ("Chestnut valley"), is as prominently recognized ...
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  • Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde (December 4, 1892 – November 20, 1975), abbreviated Francisco Franco y Bahamonde ...
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  • Hubei ( c=湖北 |p=Húběi |w=Hu-pei ; Postal map spelling: Hupeh) is a central province of the People's Republic of China. Its abbreviation ...
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  • Tai chi chuan ( t=太極拳|s=太极拳|p=tài jí quán|w=t'ai4 chi2 ch'üan2 ) is an internal (neijia, Wudangquan) Chinese martial ...
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  • North Korea claims to possess nuclear weapons, and the CIA asserts that it has a substantial arsenal of chemical weapons. North Korea, a member ...
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  • The Epic of King Gesar is the central epic poem of Tibet and much of Central Asia. It is prized as one of the few living epics, performed by ...
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  • Bāguàzhǎng is one of the major internal (Nèijiā) Chinese martial arts. Bāguà zhǎng literally means "eight trigram palm," referring ...
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  • Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. The materials used in Chinese painting, brush and ink on paper ...
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  • Kālacakra (Sanskrit: कालचक्र; IAST: Kālacakra ; Telugu: కాలచక్ర t=དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ། ...
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  • North Korean defectors are Koreans who have fled North Korea seeking asylum in South Korea or other nations. Immediately following the truce ending ...
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  • Kanji (漢字) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with hiragana (平仮名), katakana ...
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  • Kisaeng (also spelled gisaeng), sometimes called ginyeo (기녀), refers to female Korean entertainers similar to the Japanese geisha and the ...
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  • Chinese ceramics or Chinese porcelain is a form of fine art developed in China during the dynastic periods. China has always been richly endowed ...
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  • category:image wanted The Progressive Movement in Korea began in 1873, just prior to the Treaty of Ganghwa in 1874 between Japan and Korea, and ...
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