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- ***** Chinese white dolphin, Sousa chinensis **** Genus Sotalia ... ****** Chinese river dolphin, Lipotes vexillifer **** Family Platanistidae ...13 KB (1,677 words) - 05:01, 4 November 2022
- throne. This decision was opposed by the Chinese Emperor, who had some control ... reign was marked by invasions by the Qing Chinese, who took his two sons to ...95 KB (11,477 words) - 06:43, 18 April 2024
- celebrated in other cultures, such as the Chinese New Year which occurs based ... In Asia, the Chinese New Year, based on the lunisolar calendar, is ...24 KB (3,673 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- Pictograms were also used by the ancient Chinese culture since around 5000 B.C.E. and began to develop into logographic writing systems around ...12 KB (1,772 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- Chinoiserie is the catch-all term for decorations involving Chinese ... Westerners appear in many works of Indian, Chinese, and Japanese artists. In ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- Gansu, Shaanxi, and Tibet. While the Chinese dragon has been historically ... The Chinese language name for the giant panda, 大熊貓, literally ...26 KB (4,054 words) - 11:57, 26 May 2023
- ==Chinese Revolution== like Russia and China. During the Chinese revolution, the concept ...25 KB (3,629 words) - 23:10, 30 September 2023
- to make a soft drink. Bamboo is used in Chinese medicine for treating infections ... first emerge from the soil, are called in Chinese, zhú sǔn (simplified: ...29 KB (4,488 words) - 04:24, 11 January 2023
- to their degree of distance. Traditional Chinese world maps show China in ... of the world, such as Indian mathematics, Chinese mathematics, and Islamic ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 04:36, 22 March 2024
- "ABCD Powers" (America, British, Chinese, and Dutch) were threatening ... mobilized the Kwangtung Army and attacked Chinese troops. The Minseito government ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 07:56, 7 October 2022
- ) is an internal (neijia, Wudangquan) Chinese martial art, in which ... quot; appears in both Daoist and Confucian Chinese philosophy where it represents ...44 KB (6,584 words) - 00:21, 16 February 2024
- Charles George Gordon, C.B. (January 28, 1833 – January 26, 1885), known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British ...21 KB (3,345 words) - 19:07, 4 December 2023
- its grip on China, integrated with Han Chinese culture, and saw the height ... The Qing Dynasty was founded not by the Han Chinese, who form the ...45 KB (7,044 words) - 07:44, 3 July 2022
- throughout the empire used circular fans. Chinese sources link the fan with ... throughout society. The earliest known Chinese fans are a pair of woven ...28 KB (4,570 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- is written exclusively in Classical Chinese and has 1802 characters. ... abbreviated 大秦景教碑), is a Tang Chinese stele erected in 781, which ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- ) (CE 78–139) was a Chinese polymath, being a astronomer, mathematician ... Reconstruction Designs of Lost Ancient Chinese Machinery. (Dordrecht: Springer ...53 KB (7,780 words) - 16:31, 19 January 2024
- in the Persian Gulf; and Filipinos and Chinese throughout the world. And ... host nations. Examples include Afghan, Chinese, Irish, Iraqi, Jewish, and ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- * Ho Feng Shan, Chinese Consul in Vienna, who freely issued Chinese visas to Jews against orders to the contrary * Rudolf Kasztner, controversial ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 00:37, 8 December 2022
- *The kanji and Chinese character for five are both 五, and its formal ... printed mixed calendars combining Western, Chinese-Buddhist and Japanese names ...21 KB (2,981 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- and subject to stiff competition from Chinese and English traders. ... markets became saturated. Dozens of Chinese sugar traders went bankrupt ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
