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Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. The federal constitutional monarchy consists of thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime border with Thailand and maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia. East Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with Brunei and Indonesia and a maritime border with the Philippines and Vietnam. Kuala Lumpur is the national capital, largest city and the seat of the legislative branch of the federal government. The nearby planned capital of Putrajaya is the administrative capital; which represents the seat of both the executive branch (Cabinet, federal ministries and agencies) and the judicial branch of the federal government. With a population of over 33 million, Malaysia is the world's 43rd-most populous country. The southernmost point of continental Eurasia is in Tanjung Piai. In the tropics, Malaysia is one of 17 megadiverse countries, home to a number of endemic species.
History
Between China and India, Malaysia was an ancient trading place. When Europeans came to this area, Malacca was already an important trade port. Several Sultanates rose and fell during the time between the fall of Malacca and when Penang became a colony in 1768.
The states of Malaysia became a colony of the British Empire, starting with Penang in 1786. The peninsular part became independent on 31 August 1957 as the Federation of Malaya. In September 1963, Malaya, Singapore and the Borneo part joined to become Malaysia. In 1965, Singapore was expelled from the federation and declared independence.
Politics and Economy
Malaysia is considered an upper-middle income economy by the World Bank. Malaysia is known for its openness to trade with 40% of jobs in export activities. After the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997, the economy of Malaysia has continued to grow at an average rate of 5.4% since 2010. In 2017, the biggest economic sector is the services sector (53.6%), followed by the manufacturing sector (37.6%) with the agriculture sector (8.8%) being the smallest.
Cities
The following is a list of places in Malaysia. They are in order by the date they were given city status.
Religion
Malaysia is a multi-religious society, and Islam is the largest population of believers. Most of the Malay people in Malaysia embrace Islam naturally as their religion. Besides Islam, Malaysia has other religions such as Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.
Food and drink
Many cultures from within the country and from surrounding areas have influenced the cuisine. Much of the influence comes from the Malay, Chinese, Indian, Thai, Javanese, and Sumatran cultures, largely because the country was part of the ancient spice route.
Food from one culture is sometimes also cooked using ways taken from another culture, for example, shrimp paste (belacan) and sambal are commonly used by Chinese restaurants for cooking. This means that although much of Malaysian food can be traced back to a certain culture, they have their own identity. Rice is popular in many dishes. Chili is commonly found in local cuisine, although this does not necessarily make them spicy. Examples of Malaysian food are laksa, which is a spicy noodle dish common in Malaysia and teh tarik, which is a popular drink.
The Monolith Monsters
The Monolith Monsters is a 1957 sci fi horror movie. It was directed by John Sherwood and stars Grant Williams and Lola Albright. It was based on a short story by Jack Arnold and Robert M. Fresco. Fresco and Norman Jolley wrote the screenplay. Troy Donahue and The Donna Reed Show regular Paul Petersen have uncredited roles.
Story
A meteor crashes near the desert town of San Angelo. Fragments are scattered everywhere. They grow into skyscraper-sized monoliths. These monsters fall and shatter into thousands of pieces that grow into monoliths themselves. People are crushed or turned into statues.
Astrodynamics
Astrodynamics is a part of physics that deals with movement in space. It is a branch of mechanics dealing with orbits. It is related to celestial mechanics.
Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Adopted on March 30, 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution granted African-American men the right to vote. It was one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Text
"Section 1. "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Section 2. "The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.""
Background
Nowhere in the original Constitution or the Bill of Rights were Americans given the right to vote. The Fifteenth Amendment gave African-American men the right to vote. But not until the 1960s did judicial interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment conclude the right to vote was a fundamental right of all citizens.
The reasons behind the omissions of voting rights in the Bill of Rights and Constitution is that including them would have been too controversial at the time. Each state had different rules for who could vote. Some allowed free blacks the right to vote. Others allowed women the right to vote. A few states required ownership of property in order to vote.
In the Election of 1868, Republican Party candidate, Ulysses S. Grant, won the presidency by only a narrow majority of the popular vote. He received support from free black voters in the South. Without that support, he probably would have lost the election. At the time blacks could not vote in the Northern states. The Republican party needed help to stay in power and thought that black votes would help. At the time Republicans controlled both the Senate and House. The proposed amendment was passed by Congress in 1869 and sent to the states for ratification. It was quickly ratified by three-quarters of the states in early 1870. Part of the reason why is that Republicans also controlled the state governments in the South. Southern Democrats were not able to block the measure.
Results
After passage, the Fifteenth Amendment did not have much of any impact on black voting in the South for nearly a century. Southerners used various methods including terrorism, poll taxes and grandfather clauses to prevent blacks from voting. Congress and the Supreme Court repeatedly struck down voting restrictions. For example, in a landmark decision in Smith v. Allwright (1944), The Court decision made it unconstitutional to keep African-Americans from voting in a Democratic Party primary in Texas. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 which stated that all Americans had the right to vote, including African-Americans. But overcoming these problems on a case-by-case basis was proving to be unsuccessful. As soon as one form of discrimination was stopped, a new one appeared in its place. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, removed further barriers to minorities voting. It was amended five times by Congress to extend its protections as needed.
Bovina, Texas
Bovina is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.
Italian Wars
The Italian Wars, often known as the Great Wars of Italy and sometimes as the Habsburg–Valois Wars, were a long series of wars fought between 1494 and 1559 in Italy during the Renaissance.
The conflicts involved the major powers of Italy and Europe.
Matthew H. Clark
Clark died on January 22, 2023. He was 85 years old.
Ishinomaki Line
The Ishinomaki Line (石巻線) is a railroad line in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It is part of the JR East system. The line runs from Kogota Station in Misato to Onagawa Station in Onagawa. It connects the Tōhoku Main Line to the central coast of Miyagi Prefecture. It connects with the Rikuu East Line and Tōhoku Main Line at Kogota Station, the Kesennuma Line at Maeyachi Station and the Senseki Line at Ishinomaki Station, both in Ishinomaki, Miyagi.
The line color is pink.
The line is outside the area where Suica cards can be used. Riders should only use Suica between Kogata and Ishinomaki stations. Past those stations, there may be a special way to pay the fare using Suica.
The line was damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
Hudson Oaks, Texas
Hudson Oaks is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.
Zee Marathi
Zee Marathi is an Indian general entertainment channel which carries programming in Marathi. The channel was launched on 15 August 1999 and was known as Alpha TV Marathi until 27 March 2005, then it was renamed as Zee Marathi. It is the first Marathi GEC channel. A HD version of this channel, Zee Marathi HD, was launched on 20 November 2016.
Fikret Abdić
Fikret Abdić (born 29 September 1939) is a Bosnian politician and businessman.
In 2002 he was convicted on charges of war crimes against Bosniaks loyal to the Bosnian government by a court in Croatia and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, which was later reduced on appeal to 15 years by the Supreme Court of Croatia.
On 9 March 2012, he was released after having served two thirds of his reduced sentence.
Eduard Limonov
Eduard Limonov (Эдуа́рд Лимо́нов, real name Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko, Эдуа́рд Вениами́нович Саве́нко; 22 February 1943 – 17 March 2020) was a Russian writer, poet, publicist, and political dissident. He was the founder of the banned National Bolshevik Party and leader of political party The Other Russia.
Limonov died at a hospital in Moscow of surgery-related problems on 17 March 2020, aged 77.
2020 Hpakant jade mine disaster
At least 162 people were killed in a landslide in a jade mining site in the Hpakant area of Kachin state in Myanmar on 2 July 2020.
As of 2 July 2020, 162 bodies were recovered from the site, and another 54 people are reported injured.
Myanmar's jade industry is known for many accidental deaths. The 2020 disaster is the deadliest accident to date. Disasters occurred at jade mines in Hpakant in 2015 and 2019.
Mirasi
Mirasi refers to a caste of people living in North India, Pakistan especially punjab area who earn their living by singing, dancing, entertaining as jokers. These people are considerd inferior caste in social system.
Mount Kailash
Mount Kailash is a 6638 m mountain in the Gangdise Shan mountain range in Tibet. Mount Kailash is also known as Kangrinboqe and Gongdisi Shan.
In Hinduism and Buddhism, Kailash, or Mt. Meru, is sacred. Hindus believe Kailash is the home of Lord Shiva and his wife Parvati and sons Ganesh and Kartikeya. Hindus believe that it is impossible to climb to Kailash, but every year pilgrims come to Tibet to walk around it. The Tibetan people believe that people should not climb Mount Kailash. It is believed to have never been climbed.
Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Serbo-Croatian: Predsjedništvo Bosne i Hercegovine / Предсједништво Босне и Херцеговине) is the three-member body which serves as head of state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Onagawa, Miyagi
Onagawa (女川町) is a town in Miyagi Prefecture. Fishing is an important business in this town. The JR East Ishinomaki Line stops here at Onagawa Station. The town was badly damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The tsunami reached a maximum of 15 metres in height and went as much as one kilometer in from the coast. According to some accounts the wave was even higher in places. It destroyed the town center. At least 1,300 people died.
Energy
There are three nuclear reactors in Onagawa. They can produce up to 2,174 megawatts of electricity. The plants automatically shut down after the March 11 earthquake without any accidents. There is no plan to start the plants again during 2011.
Alois Martin David
Alois Martin David (8 December 1757 in Zeberheisch, Bohemia - 22 February 1836 in Tepl Abbey) was a Bohemian Catholic clergyman, astronomer, and cartographer. He was rector of Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague.
Life
He grew up in Tepl. He studied philosophy, physics, mathematics, and theology at Prague University. He studied with Jan Tesánek. He was a professor of metaphysics at the University of Prague, and worked at the Prague Observatory. He wrote to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He was a member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences. From 1806 to 1831, he was the secretary. He was dean at Charles-Ferdinand University. He was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 1815 he was appointed "Royal Astronomer".
The asteroid 6385 Martindavid was named after him.
Central Station (movie)
Central Station (Central do Brasil) is a 1998 Brazilian French drama movie directed by Walter Salles and starring Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira, Marília Pêra, Soia Lira, Othon Bastos, Otávio Augusto, Matheus Nachtergaele. It was nominated for 2 Academy Awards in 1999.
License to Drive
License to Drive is a 1988 American comedy movie directed by Greg Beeman and starring Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Carol Kane, James Avery, Heather Graham, Richard Masur, Nina Siemaszko, Michael Ensign. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Friona, Texas
Friona is a city in Parmer County, Texas, United States. In 2010, 4,123 people lived in Friona.
Kresten Bjerre
Kresten Bjerre (22 February 1946 – 19 February 2014), nicknamed Generalen ("The General"), was a Danish association footballer. He played for Houston Stars in the United States and for the European clubs PSV Eindhoven and R.W.D. Molenbeek. He was born in Copenhagen.
Bjerre died from cancer on 19 February 2014 in Odense. He was 67 years old.
Sergei Mandreko
Sergei Vladimirovich Mandreko (Серге́й Владимирович Мандреко; 1 August 1971 – 8 March 2022) was a Russian-Tajik football coach and player. He played as a midfielder. He played for CIS, Russia and Tajikistan.
From 2008 until 2009 Mandreko worked as an assistant manager under Rashid Rakhimov during his time with FC Lokomotiv Moscow.
Mandreko was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 2016. He died on 8 March 2022 from the disease, at the age of 50.
Knonau
Knonau is a municipality in the district of Affoltern in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
Cup
A cup is any kind of container used for holding liquid and drinking. These include:
Cup may also mean:
The Violent Men
The Violent Men is a 1955 American western movie directed by Rudolph Maté and was based on the novel Smoky Valley by Donald Hamilton. It stars Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith, May Wynn and was distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Appleby, Texas
Appleby is a city of Nacogdoches County, in the U.S. state of Texas.
Chat
To chat is to talk about ordinary things that are not very important. A person can chat with another person, or to many people. People also use this word now for parts of the Internet where we can talk with many different people at the same time. Usually, people chat on the Internet in a chat room or messaging service like AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo Messenger Windows Live Messenger or Tencent QQ. There are also programs which let people use different messaging services from one program, such as Pidgin.
Fresnoy-au-Val
Fresnoy-au-Val is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?
Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful? is a music album. It is the first one by English singer-songwriter Paloma Faith. It was released on 28 September 2009 by Epic Records. Its first two singles from the album are "Stone Cold Sober" and "New York". Both peaked within the top twenty in the United Kingdom.
B-sides
The following tracks were not released on the album, but have been released as a single B-side.
Machy, Somme
Machy is a commune. It is in Hauts-de-France in the Somme department in north France.
Scottsbluff, Nebraska
Scottsbluff is a city in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska.
List of current Atlantic Records artists
This is a list of artists who record for Atlantic Records, Artists are listed in alphabetical order.
Ee, Netherlands
Ee is a village in the Dutch province of Friesland. In 2020, 860 people lived there.
Before 2019, the village was part of the municipality of Dongeradeel. It is part of the new municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân.
Eich, Switzerland
Eich is a municipality of the district of Sursee in the Swiss canton of Lucerne.
Ottauquechee River
The Ottauquechee River is a river in Vermont, in the eastern United States. It is a tributary to the Connecticut River, and is about 40 mi long. It begins in the Green Mountains, and flows through the counties of Rutland County and Windsor County, flowing into the Connecticut River in the town of Hartland. There is one hydroelectric dam on the river, which forms a lake called North Hartland Lake.
Chogolisa
Chogolisa is a 7665 m mountain in the Karakoram range, in Pakistan. It is also known as Bride Peak. It is the 36th highest mountain in the world. Chogolisa has three distinct peaks. The first people to reach the top of the highest peak were Fred Pressl and Gustav Ammerer, in 1975.
Ee, Netherlands
Ee is the shortest place name in the Netherlands.
Gauss's law
Gauss's law (or Gauss's flux theorem) is a law of physics. The law is about the relationship between electric charge and the resulting electric field. In words, Gauss's law states that:
The law was created by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1835. However, it was not published until 1867. It is one of the four Maxwell's equations on classical electrodynamics. The other three are Gauss's law for magnetism, Faraday's law of induction, and Ampère's circuital law.
Jiří T. Kotalík
Jiří Tomáš Kotalík (14 February 1951 – 2 July 2020) was a Czech art historian. He was born in Prague. From 1997 to 2003 and again from 2010 to 2014, he was the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague. A professor, he also taught at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
Chris Reed (figure skater)
Chris Reed (July 7, 1989 – March 14, 2020) was an American-born Japanese ice dancer. With his sister Cathy Reed, he became a seven-time Japanese national champion (2008–2011, 2013–2015) and the 2011 Asian Winter Games silver medalist.
Jiří T. Kotalík
Kotalík died on 2 July 2020 in Prague, aged 69.
Chris Reed (figure skater)
They competed at two Winter Olympics (2010, 2014) and reached the final segment at nine ISU Championships.
Artzenheim
Artzenheim is a French commune. It is in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France. It is 17 km of Colmar.
Tom Gilbey (designer)
Tom Gilbey (19 May 1938 – 24 May 2017) was a British fashion designer associated with Savile Row tailoring of the 1960s. He was born in London, England. His designs have featured in the Fashion Museum, Bath, and are in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Museum of London.
Gilbey died of cancer on 24 May in London at the age of 79.
Warren Township, New Jersey
Warren Township is a township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township's population was 15,311.
Somerville, New Jersey
Somerville is a borough in and the county seat of Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 12,098.
David Cornstein
David B. Cornstein (born August 17, 1938) is an American businessman and politician. He is the United States Ambassador to Hungary. He is from New York and his business career is about gambling operations, high-end used jewelry and telemarketing.
Deadpool (movie)
Deadpool is a 2016 American superhero comedy movie. It is based on the Marvel Comics's character Deadpool. The movie was directed by Tim Miller and it was produced by Simon Kinberg, Ryan Reynolds, and Lauren Shuler Donner. It was Miller's first movie as a director. A sequel movie titled Deadpool 2 was released in 2018.
Deadpool was first premiered at Le Grand Rex in Paris on February 8, 2016. It was released in North America on February 12, 2016. Principal photography for the movie started in Vancouver on March 23, 2015 and ended on May 29, 2015.
Plot
Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) is a former Special Forces operative who now works as a mercenary. His world comes crashing down when evil scientist Ajax (Ed Skrein) tortures, disfigures and transforms him into Deadpool. The rogue experiment leaves Deadpool with accelerated healing powers and a twisted sense of humor. With help from mutant allies Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand), Deadpool uses his new skills to hunt down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
Reception
The movie got positive reviews from critics and audiences. It has a 83% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said that the movie was "party time for action junkies" and also that Reynolds may have found the role that defines his career.
Kill Your Darlings
The movie Kill Your Darlings is a 2013 historic drama set in 1944. The cast includes Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg, Jennifer Jason Leigh as Naomi and Kyra Sedgwick as Marian Carr. This movie got very positive reviews from the critics.
Ragib Ali
Ragib Ali is a Bangladeshi born British industrialist and educationist. He is regarded as a pioneer in tea-plantation. He is also the founder of Leading University in Sylhet, Bangladesh.
Biography
Ali was born in 1936 in Talibpur, Kamal Bazaar, Bishwanath, Sylhet District, Bangladesh. He did his schooling from Raza G.C High School in Sylhet and graduated from the College of Sylhet. In 1956, he moved to the United Kingdom to pursue higher education.
Bud Collins
Arthur Worth "Bud" Collins, Jr. (June 17, 1929 – March 4, 2016) was an American journalist and television sportscaster. He was best known for his tennis commentary. Collins was born in Lima, Ohio. For several years with the Boston Globe, he was a general and political columnist. In 1967, he was a candidate for mayor of Boston.
Ragib Ali
Biography
He established the Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College and served as the Chairman of North South University Foundation. He has founded Leading University and University of Asia Pacific (Bangladesh).
Bud Collins
Collins died on March 4, 2016 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was aged 86.
Georgi Atanasov (politician)
Georgi Ivanov Atanasov (Bulgarian: Георги Иванов Атанасов) (25 July 1933 – 31 March 2022) was a Bulgarian politician and military official. He was a leading member of the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was Prime Minister from 1986 to 1990. Atanasov supported the move to oust Todor Zhivkov as Chairman of the State Council.
Atanasov died on 31 March 2022 in Sofia, Bulgaria at the age of 88.
Middlefield, Connecticut
Middlefield is a town in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 census, 4,217 people lived there.
Fernando Carlos Maletti
Fernando Carlos Maletti (17 March 1949 – 8 March 2022) was an Argentine prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was bishop of San Carlos de Bariloche from 2001 until 2013. He later became bishop of Merlo-Moreno. Maletti was born in Buenos Aires.
Maletti died on 8 March 2022, at the age of 72.
Rolette County, North Dakota
Rolette County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. As of the 2020 census, 12,187 people lived there. The county seat is Rolla.
N.E.R.D.
N.E.R.D (stylized as N*E*R*D) is an American hip hop and rock band. It was formed in 1999 by Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, and Shay Haley in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The band's first two albums, In Search of... and Fly or Die, were certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Ángela Jeria
Ángela Margarita Jeria Gómez (22 August 1926 – 2 July 2020) was a Chilean archaeologist and human rights activist. She was born in Talca, Chile. She was the mother of the President of Chile Michelle Bachelet. She was the wife of the Brigadier-general of the Chilean Air Force Alberto Bachelet. Jeria was known as the first lady during her daughter's the first government because she was not married.
Chireno, Texas
Chireno is a city in Nacogdoches County, Texas, United States. The population was 386 at the 2010 census.
American actress, singer, and dancer Ann Miller (1923-2004) was born in Chireno.
Geuensee
Geuensee is a municipality of the district Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.
Oscar (1991 movie)
Oscar is a 1991 American comedy movie directed by John Landis and is the second version of the play of the same name by Claude Magnier. It stars Sylvester Stallone, Marisa Tomei, Ornella Muti, Tim Curry, Chazz Palminteri, Don Ameche, Vincent Spano, Harry Shearer, Eddie Bracken, Linda Gray, Kirk Douglas, Joey Travolta and was distributed by Buena Vista Pictures.
Cushing, Texas
Cushing is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.
The Favorite
The Favorite (also titled Intimate Power) is a 1989 Swiss American drama movie directed by Jack Smight and starring F. Murray Abraham, Maud Adams, Amber O'Shea, Ron Dortch, James Michael Gregary, Francesco Quinn. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
China
China ( Pinyin: Zhōngguó) is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and a nation in East Asia. The official name is People's Republic of China or PRC.
China is one of the world's oldest civilizations: it has the oldest continuous civilization near the Yellow River region. There is archaeological evidence over 5,000 years old. China also has one of the world's oldest writing systems (and the oldest in use today). China has been the source of many major inventions. Geographically, China’s longest river is the Yangtze River which runs through mega cities and is home to many species. It is the world’s third longest river.
Origins
The first recorded use of the word "China" is dated 1555. It is derived from chīnī, a Persian adjective meaning 'Chinese' which was popularized in Europe by Marco Polo.
Ancient (2100 B.C. – 1500 A.D.)
Ancient China was one of the first civilizations and was active since the 2nd millennium BC as a feudal society. Chinese civilization was also one of the few to invent writing, with the others being Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley civilization, the Maya civilization, the Minoan civilization of ancient Greece, and Ancient Egypt. It reached its golden age during the Tang Dynasty (c. A.D. 10th century). Home of Confucianism and Daoism, it had great influence on nearby countries including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam in the areas of political system, philosophy, religion, art, writing and literature. China is home to some of the oldest artwork in the world. Statues and pottery, as well as decorations made of jade, are some classic examples.
Before the Qin Dynasty united China, there were many small feudal states, nominally loyal to the Zhou King, that fought each other for hundreds of years in a war to control China. The majority of these states were ruled by relatives and clansmen of the Zhou royal house and carried the surname Ji (姬) and so were tied by family bonds to the Zhou king, to whom they were ritually subordinate, as members of collateral or lesser lineages. A minority of these states, such as the Qin and Chu, were ruled by non-Zhou clansmen, and were awarded their fiefs on account of some merit. Over time, these feudal states attained to power and wealth, that exceeded that of their Zhou nominal overlord, whose direct authority became confined to a very small territory near present-day Zhengzhou. These states also began to acquire some distinctive characteristics and identities of their own during the long centuries of loose control by the Zhou. Eventually, the Zhou kings were eclipsed in power by two especially problematic vassals - the Qin and Chu, and the functional independence of the Qin later led to its gradual conquest of all other vassal states and the formal supplantation of the Zhou to form a heavily centralised Empire.
The long decline of the Zhou, incidentally the longest ruling dynastic house of China, is known as the Warring States Period. Despite the bloodiness and strife of the period, this was the time when many great philosophies emerged - including Confucianism and Daoism as a response to disintegrating central authority of the Zhou kings and fluctuating power of the vassal states, and the general uncertainty of that era. Confucianism and Daoism have been the foundation of many social values seen in modern east Asian cultures today.
Other notable dynasties include the Han (from which is derived the ethnonym the Han Chinese, which is synonymous with the older self-referential term - the Huaxia) as well as dynasties such as the Tang, Song, and Ming, which were characterised by periods of affluence, wealth, population growth, and the proliferation of literature.
During the later years, China was often raided or invaded by northern nomadic people such as the Xiongnu, the Xianbei, the Jurchens and the Mongols (the latter led by Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan). One effect of regular nomadic invasion and the collapse of native dynasties was the massive migration of Han Chinese - especially the aristocratic elite and the literati, to sparsely populated frontier regions south of the Yangzi river such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Fujian. Several notable waves of Han Chinese immigration to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Fujian took place during the collapse of the Jin, the Tang, and the Song.
Some nomadic groups succeeded in conquering the whole territory of China, establishing dynasties such as the Yuan (Mongol) and Qing (Manchu). Each time, they also brought new elements into Chinese culture - for instance, military uniform, the qipao and the pigtail, the latter of which was deeply resented by the Han Chinese.
A new age
While China achieved many things in the First millennium and early 2nd millennium, it became an isolationist country in the 15th century C.E. This was because Spain found enormous silver in the new continent, which was the main currency (money) in China and Europe at the time, and China did not want to be bought by the foreigners.
By the time of the Renaissance, European powers started to take over other countries in Asia. While China was never actually taken over, many European countries, such as Britain and France built spheres of influence in China. Since China had cut itself off from the world over the previous few centuries, by the Qing Dynasty, it had fallen behind other countries in technology, and was helpless to stop this from happening. This had become clear when it lost the Opium Wars to Britain in the 19th century.
Still influenced by Western sources, China faced internal strife. The Taiping Rebellion or Taiping War occurred in China from 1851 through 1864. The Taiping Rebellion was led by Hong Xiuquan from Guangdong. Hong Xiuquan was influenced by Christian missionaries and declared himself the brother of Jesus. Hong made his mission to bring down the Qing Dynasty. Gaining influence on the southern Chinese population, the Taiping Rebellion attracted tens of thousands of supporters. The Taiping regime successfully created a state within the Qing Empire with the capital at Nanjing. Hong called his new state the Taiping Tianguo or "The Heavenly State of Great Peace". Local armies eventually suppressed the rebellion at the final battle of Nanjing.
In 1911, the Republic of China was founded after the Xinhai revolution led by Sun Yat-sen, but its government was very weak. Warlords controlled many areas. Chiang Kai-shek led wars against them, and he became president and dictator.
In 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria, a place in the northeastern part of China. On July 7, 1937, the Japanese attacked the rest of the country, starting what was called the Second Sino-Japanese War.
On December 13 of that same year, The Japanese Army killed an estimated (guessed) 200,000 to 300,000 Chinese civilians (people) which is called Nanjing Massacre. The war later became part of World War II. The war was fought for eight years and millions of Chinese people were killed.
However, the Chinese Civil War later started between the Kuomintang (Nationalists) of the Republic of China (ROC) and the Communists of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The Communists wanted to make China like the Soviet Union, whereas the other side wanted to keep China in its current state at the time. The Communists were led by Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai and others. The Communists eventually won the war by uniting all the people from different positions. The Nationalists (led by Chiang Kai-shek) fled to the island of Taiwan and set up their new capital city in Taipei. After the Chinese Civil War, the Communist leader Mao Zedong declared a new country, the People's Republic of China (PRC), in Beijing on October 1, 1949.
Under Mao the country stayed poor while Taiwan became richer. His attempt at industrialization and collectivization with the Great Leap Forward led to the deaths of many people from famine. The Cultural Revolution caused great social upheaval. After 1976, China underwent market economy reforms under Deng Xiaoping, and experienced rapid economic growth, which made the former progress made by Taiwan became overshadowed. China is now one of the largest economies in the world, relying mainly on exports and manufactering.
In recent history, China has had problems with protests, blocking of information on the Internet, and censorship of news. 1989 was notable for the controversial Tiananmen Square protests. Since the 2008 Olympics, China has hosted many major international events, and the 2022 Winter Olympics were held in Beijing, China.
Geography
China's landscape is vast and diverse. It ranges from the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts in the north to subtropical forests in the south. The Himalaya, Karakoram, Pamir and Tian Shan mountain ranges separate China from much of South and Central Asia. The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers run from the Tibetan Plateau to the densely populated eastern coast. The Yangtze River is the third-longest river in the world while the Yellow River is the sixth-longest. China's coastline along the Pacific Ocean is 14,500 kilometers (9,000 mi) long. It is bounded by the Bohai, Yellow, East China and South China seas. China connects through the Kazakh border to the Eurasian Steppe. The Eurasian Steppe has been an artery of communication between East and West since the Neolithic through the Steppe route. The Steppe Route is the ancestor of the terrestrial Silk Road(s).
Politics
China's constitution states that The People's Republic of China "is a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants". It also states the state organs "apply the principle of democratic centralism." The PRC is one of the world's only socialist states openly being communist.
Military
With 2.3 million active troops, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the largest standing military force in the world. The PLA is commanded by the Central Military Commission (CMC). China has the second-biggest military reserve force, only behind North Korea. The PLA consists of the Ground Force (PLAGF), the Navy (PLAN), the Air Force (PLAAF), and the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF). According to the Chinese government, China's military budget for 2017 was US$151,5 billion. China has the world's second-largest military budget.
Science and technology
China was once a world leader in science and technology up until the Ming dynasty. There are many Ancient Chinese discoveries and inventions. For example, papermaking, printing, the compass, and gunpowder are known as the Four Great Inventions. They became widespread across East Asia, the Middle East and later to Europe. Chinese mathematicians were the first to use negative numbers. By the 17th century, Europe and the Western world became better than China in science and technology.
Demographics
The national census of 2010 recorded the population of the People's Republic of China to be about 1,370,536,875. About 16.60% of the population were 14 years old or younger, 70.14% were between 15 and 59 years old, and 13.26% were over 60 years old. The population growth rate for 2013 is estimated to be 0.46%.
Gou Bu Li baozi
Gou Bu Li baozi is a group of restaurants in TianJin, China that sells steamed buns. Gou Bu Li baozi was established in 1858. It is one of the most famous foods in Tianjin. Gou Bu Li’s shop is one of the oldest and most famous shops in that city. In 1960, the Gou Bu Li baozi went out of China to foreign countries. Now there are so many shops in China.
History
Gou Bu Li Baozi was founded in the Qing Dynasty in 1858. It was started by Gao You Gui when he was young, His family named him "young dog". He lived in Tianjin when he was very young. He was a worker in Liu's store. It took him three years to learn how to make Baozi very pleasing and beautiful. Firstly, he started a store called "cheap and friendly store".
China
Culture
China has had renowned artists including Wong Fei Hung (Huang Fei Hung or Hwang Fei Hung) and many others. Art has also co-existed with a variety of paints including the more standard 18 colors. Legendary and controversial moves like Big Mak are also praised and talked about within the culture.
Gou Bu Li baozi
History
Because his Baozi is very very pleasing, many people went to his store. So that he is too having much to do to talk with the persons getting goods from store. So his person getting goods from store called him dog ignored. That's why "Gou Bu Li "is so greatly respected and so many people called it that until now.
When Yuan shikai was a person doing teaching in army in Tian Jin. He gave this to queen Dowager Cixi, she is very happy and say:"Gou Bu Li baozi is so very pleasing that it is better that the animal’s meat in the mountain or the seafood in the sea, after I take it, I think I go back to a young person." After this Gou Bu Li baozi is more greatly respected than it used to.
China
Culture
China has many traditional festivals, such as Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-autumn Festival and so on. The most important is Chinese New Year. People in China will have holidays to celebrate these festivals.
Gou Bu Li baozi
History
In the 1920s, with the Tianjin advertisement inside middle moving south and moving closer to the land rights, Gao yougui not taken into account the buns store and moved to the Tianxiang market of tianjin But after this the business is not good for a long time and on the edge to shut down. After the groups of persons Republic of China be started. any private companies change quality of to Public - private the way of loving persons. On March 15, 1956, the Tianjin food company in the peaceful part of the shandong Road military building made strong against attack Park Ruizhuang place opened in tianjin Gou Bu Li baozi store, then, the Chinese leaders put on air of being more important than other person many times.
Mouse trap
A mouse trap is something used to trap mice. It usually attracts mice if there is cheese or peanut butter on the mouse trap. It can also be used to trap other animals such as maggots. However, if too much food is put on the mouse trap, they can eat it without getting caught.
Gou Bu Li baozi
How to make it
Gao You Gui is a ratio of 3 to 7 fat and fresh pork and even with the right amount of water, ribs soup and belly soup, and accompanied by sesame oil, soy sauce, ginger, diced green onions made into stuffing. The steamed buns will be half of the rubbing, after the release agent, roll into a diameter of 8.5 cm and thick uniform round skin. Pack with your fingers with a pinch and twist open, so there will be 18 pleats, looking like a flower, and finally steam the buns. Do not use jam. Use mushroom and chicken or special flour to make sure the baozi is small and delicious. And so many people had learn the method of how to make baozi but his baozi never be surpassed.
Protecting the logo
In 1980, Gou Bu Li has the logo. In 1992 Gou Bu Li became the first one that have a logo. At present, the Gou Bu Li has been registered in the 11 international classification, service trademark in 1999 by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce Trademark Office identified as "China Famous Brand", which is the commercial value of its brand affirmed.
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Festivals
Spring Festival is the Chinese New Year.
Dangerous Minds (soundtrack)
Dangerous Minds: Music from the Motion Picture is the official soundtrack to the 1995 movie Dangerous Minds. The album reached number one on the U.S. Billboard 200. It was certified triple platinum by the RIAA. The album contains 4 singles: Gangsta's Paradise, Feel the Funk, Curiosity, and Gin & Juice. "Gangsta's Paradise", performed by Coolio, won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance.
China
Festivals
Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated to commemorate the death of Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet of the State of Chu during the Warring States period. He persuaded his emperor not to accept Qin's diplomats' offers several times but his emperor did not listen to him. He was very sad and ended up jumping into the river to end his life. The people loved him so much that they did not want the fish to eat his corpse. They made and threw rice dumplings into the river. They hope the fish eat these dumplings instead of the poet's corpse. They also rowed dragon boats in the river to get rid of the fish. Such practices, eating rice dumplings and holding dragon boat races, become what Chinese do in this festival nowadays.
Gou Bu Li baozi
Branches
In the 1980s, Gou Bu Li baozi began franchise chain operations. In 1980, Beijing Hua Tian Diet Group Company introduced the Gou Bu Li to Beijing. In 2004, the Gou Bu Li open a branch in Taiwan. There are now many branches in China.
Dangerous Minds (soundtrack)
Personnel
Information taken from Allmusic.
China
Festivals
Held on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival for families. Now when the festival sets in, people would sit together to eat moon cakes, appreciate the bright full moon cakes, appreciate the bright full moon, celebrate the bumper harvest and enjoy the family love and happiness. To the Chinese people, the full moon symbolizes family reunion, as does the "moon cakes." Hence the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the Family Reunion Festival.
Gou Bu Li baozi
Media
TV show: Legend of Gou Bu Li baozi
An American Werewolf in Paris
An American Werewolf in Paris is a 1997 American British Luxembourgian French German Dutch horror comedy movie directed by Anthony Waller (who also stars) and is the sequel to the 1981 movie An American Werewolf in London. It stars Tom Everett Scott, Julie Delpy, Vince Vieluf, Phil Buckman, Julie Bowen, Pierre Cosso, Steven Hartley, Thierry Lhermitte and was distributed by Hollywood Pictures.
Antti Raanta
Antti Raanta (born May 12, 1989) is a Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender. He currently plays for the Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played for the Chicago Blackhawks and the New York Rangers.
Sophie Dessus
Sophie Dessus (24 September 1955 – 3 March 2016) was a French Socialist politician. She was born in Suresnes, France. She represented Corrèze's First Constituency in the National Assembly, the first woman to represent Corrèze in the National Assembly. She served from 20 June 2012 until her death in 3 March 2016.
Antti Raanta
Career
Before playing in the NHL, Raanta played 4 seasons in the SM-liiga with Lukko and Ässät.
Sophie Dessus
Dessus died in Limoges, France of cancer on 3 March 2016. She was aged 60.
Antti Raanta
Career
During his time with Ässät, he won the Lasse Oksanen trophy for the SM-liiga best player of regular season and the Jari Kurri trophy for the best player of the playoffs with .955 SV%. He went 21-10-11 and recorded five shutouts in 45 games. He finished with a 1.85 goals-against average and .943 save percentage.
On June 3, 2013, he signed a one-year entry-level contract with the Chicago Blackhawks. He was assigned to their AHL-affiliate, the Rockford IceHogs. On November 17, 2013, he was recalled by the Blackhawks from the Rockford IceHogs because backup goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin was injured in a loss versus the Nashville Predators the previous night.
On December 30, 2013, he was able to earn his first career shutout when the Blackhawks beat the Los Angeles Kings at home. He was able to stop all 26 shots that he had faced, and improved to 10-1-3 on the season. He was named the Rookie of the Month, along with Martin Jones, for December 2013, going 8-1-3 with one shutout.
Grosswangen
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Yun Hyon-seok
Yun Hyok-seok (, October 7, 1984 – April 26, 2003) was a South Korean activist, poet and writer. He fought for human rights, civil rights, LGBT rights and peace. His nickname was Yook Woo Dang, which means "six friends". He wrote using the names Sulheon (설헌, 雪軒) and Midong (미동, 美童, "Beauty Boy"), Donghwa (동화, 童花, Boy's flower), Roman Catholic baptismal name is Antonio.
Yun was born in Incheon. His family is Catholic. He later moved to Seoul. While he was a student, he began writing and poetry. In March 2000, he started going to Incheon Seil high school. At high school, he came out as gay. This made him isolated from his classmates. By November 2002, he left high school. He began living in a neighbourhood of Dongdaemun District of Seoul.
Yun's nickname, Yook Woo Dang, means "six friends". It refers to alcohol, tobacco, sleeping pills, foundation make-up, green tea and rosary beads. His penname Sulheon came from Heo Chohui's nickname Nanseolheon. Heo Chohui was a female poet and painter during the Joseon dynasty in Korea.
In 2002 and 2003, Yun became an activist for human rights and peace. In March 2003, he was a conscientious objector to South Korea's conscription military service. But his opinions did not matter to some Koreans, because of his sexuality. In early April 2003, some South Korean Christian organisations gave a statement against homosexuality. Yun spoke out against this and wrote an article to some South Korean newspapers and the foreign press.
Theory of the Earth
Theory of the Earth was a publication by James Hutton which laid the foundations for geology. In it he showed that the Earth is the product of natural forces. What could be seen happening today, over long periods of time, could produce what we see in the rocks. This idea, uniformitarianism, was a major step in the History of the geologic time scale. It was used by Charles Lyell in his work, and Lyell's textbook was an important influence on Charles Darwin.
Yun Hyon-seok
In April 26, 2003, Yun committed suicide, in Dongdaemun in Seoul. He hanged himself. He did it to protest discrimination against gay people in South Korea.
Theory of the Earth
Hutton recognized that rocks record the evidence of the past action of processes which still operate today. He also anticipated natural selection, as follows:
Hutton's prose hindered his theories. John Playfair in 1802 restated of Huttton's geological ideas in clearer English. However, he left out Hutton's thoughts on evolution. Charles Lyell in the 1830s popularised the idea of an infinitely repeating cycle (of the erosion of rocks and the building up of sediment). Lyell believed in gradual change, and thought even Hutton gave too much credit to catastrophic changes.
Hutton's work was published in different forms and stages: