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  • , is the largest port city in the Republic of Korea. With a population of ... was more than doubled by an influx of refugees from the north. Busan ...
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  • Mustelidae is a diverse family of the order Carnivora, whose extant ... help to control prey populations. The sea otters, for example, are keystone ...
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  • ) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located on ... refers to the province's location east of the Taihang Mountains. Its ...
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  • Eastern) dragon. Unlike the Western dragon of Europe that is representative ... dragon is benevolent and powerful, bringer of good fortune. Its image was ...
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  • JPG|thumb|right|280px|right|Statue of Guan Yin on Mount Putuo]] Chinese: 觀音) is known as the bodhisattva of infinite compassion in East ...
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  • East China Sea to the south, and the Sea of Japan (East Sea) to the east ... Ulleung-do, a volcanic island in the Sea of Japan (East Sea), has a greater ...
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  • Operation Downfall was the overall Allied plan for the invasion of ... Operation Downfall consisted of two parts--Operation Olympic and Operation ...
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  • who is most famous for his mission to Japan, which opened that country ... he was only 15 years old, under the command of his older brother Oliver Hazard ...
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  • ) (c. 344 - 406), a celebrated painter of ancient China, is regarded ... details that revealed the characteristics of the figures he drew and paid ...
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  • :For other uses of the word Taira see Taira (disambiguation) ... clan name bestowed by the emperors of the Heian Period on certain ...
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  • not necessarily round), lustrous object made of nacre (mother-of-pearl) that ... Pearls are formed inside the shell of certain bivalve mollusks when ...
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  • - 1662), was a military leader at the end of the Chinese Ming Dynasty. Born ... Zheng Chenggong was a prominent leader of the Ming loyalist movement ...
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  • Mitsui Group is one of the largest corporate conglomerates (keiretsu ... shogunate and began operating a system of money exchanges. They received ...
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  • The Japanese city of Hiroshima|広島市|Hiroshima-shi is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the ...
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  • Caviar is the processed, salted roe of certain species of fish, most ... in the United States, high consumption of caviar led to over-fishing ...
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  • Japanese navy during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598) during the ... Yi is also known for his innovation of the Turtle ships (거북선 ...
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  • The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic ... 147° east meridian. The northernmost extent of the Indian Ocean is approximately ...
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  • === 1983 - Sea of Japan tsunami === 7.7 earthquake occurred in the Sea of Japan, about 100 km west of ...
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  • Salmon is the common name for several species of large food and game ... and the island of Kyūshū in the Sea of Japan in the western Pacific; ...
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  • post-war writing and the circumstances of his ritual suicide in public ... Mishima actively engaged in martial arts and tried to live a life ...
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