Bencoolen MRT Station (DT21) is a MRT station located in Singapore. It opened on 21 October 2017 and is on the Downtown line. It is the deepest MRT station, surpassing Promenade, at 43 meters deep. It reduces congestion at Bras Basah MRT Station, which is a minute walk away.
Cross-sex friendship
A cross-sex friendship is a friendship between an unrelated male and female. The term is neutral as regards to sexual implications. There may or may not be any kind of sexual feelings in one or both parties.
Eve Poole
Eve Poole (December 29, 1924 - December 26, 1992) was a New Zealand politician of Jewish descent.
She was born in Germany and fled with her family to Mandatory Palestine in 1932. During the war she served in the British army. She married a New Zealand tank commander and after the war she moved to New Zealand.
Being trained in theatre skills in Israel, she was teaching drama in New Zealand. She went into local politics by becoming a councillor in Invercargill in 1971, and a deputy mayor in 1974. She was mayor of this city on the very southern point of South Island from 1983 to 1992. As a politician she was promoting culture. She was also a member of several cultural institutions.
She died at the age of 67 in Dunedin.
Sino-Japanese vocabulary
Sino-Japanese vocabulary, Chinese-based Japanese words, or kango (kanji: 漢語, hiragana: かんご), are Chinese loanwords in the Japanese language. The two languages are unrelated to each other, since Chinese is a Sino-Tibetan language while Japanese is a language isolate (meaning that no known languages are related to it). However, Chinese has had a major influence on Japanese and has effected many parts of it, including its phonology (how it organizes sounds) and its vocabulary. Including Chinese words into Japanese lead to allowing words to have closed syllables (syllables ending in a consonant), like the words "san" (kanji: 三, hiragana: さん, meaning: three) and "udon" (kanji:饂飩, hiragana: うどん) and for words to have long vowels and long consonants, like "nō" (kanji:能, hiragana: のう) and "gakkō" (kanji: 学校, hiragana: がっこう). Before Chinese words came into the Japanese language syllables in Japanese words only had open syllables (words that end in a vowel) like "katana" (kanji:刀, hiragana: かたな) and "shinobi" (kanji and hiragana: 忍び, hiragana only: しのび).
It is one of the three main sources of Japanese words, along with "yamato kotoba" (kanji: 大和言葉, hiragana: やまとことば), also known as "wago" (kanji: 和語, hiragana: わご), or native Japanese words, and "gairaigo" (kanji: 外来語, hiragana: がいらいご), or loanwords borrowed from languages other than Chinese (especially English since the post-WWII era).
It is said that about 60-70% of Japanese words come from Chinese. Like how French and Latin are to English, Chinese loanwords are used to create formal vocabulary and technical terms in Japanese. For example, while the native English words are "moon" and "horse", the Latin terms "luna" and "equus" is used to create technical terms like "lunar calendar", a calendar that is based on the moon, and "equine science", the study of horses. Likewise, the native Japanese word for horse is uma (kanji: 馬, hiragana: うま) while the Chinese term is ba (kanji:馬, hiragana: ば), which is used in terms like basha (kanji:馬車, hiragana: ばしゃ, meaning: horse carriage), jōba (kanji:乗馬, hiragana: じょうば, meaning: horse riding), and gunba (kanji:軍馬, hiragana: ぐんば, meaning: warhorse).
Most Chinese loanwords are nouns, and they are often made up of more than one kanji (Chinese characters used in Japanese). Most kanji have two different kinds of pronunciation, on'yomi (the pronunciation of the kanji borrowed from Chinese) and kun'yomi (the native pronunciation of Japanese words that use the kanji). "Yamato kotoba" words use the kanji's kun'yomi. While Japanese usually use the kun'yomi for words of just one kanji, like 火 (on'yomi: ka, meaning: fire) which is pronounced "hi", and 山 (on'yomi: san, -zan, meaning: mountain) which is pronounced "yama", when you put together the two kanji, 火山, the word will not be pronounced by their kun'yomi as "hiyama", but rather they will be pronounced by their on'yomi as "kazan", which the compound word fire+mountain means "volcano".
While most Chinese loanwords in Japanese are nouns, they can also be used to make verbs, adjectives, and adverbs as well. While most Japanese verbs are native Japanese words, Chinese loanwords can be made into verbs using the "-suru" form. For example, the Chinese loanword "kinshi" (kanji: 禁止, hiragana:きんし) is a noun that means "prohibition" or "ban", but if you add "-suru" afterwards, as in "kinshi-suru" (kanji and hiragana: 禁止する, hiragana only: きんしする), it becomes a verb that means "to prohibit" or "to ban". Also, adjectives can be formed from nouns by adding the suffix "-teki" (的) to it. For example, while the word "shikaku" (kanji: 視覚, hiragana: しかく) is a noun that means "vision" or "sense of sight", adding "-teki" afterwards makes it into the word "shikaku-teki" (kanji:視覚的, hiragana: しかくてき) which is an adjective that means "visual".
Even though kanji a Chinese invention, Japanese has also created many Chinese-based words itself that were adopted into Chinese. These words are called "wasei-kango" (kanji:和製漢語, hiragana: わせいかんご) which means "Japanese-made Chinese words". Many of these words describe things that are uniquely Japanese, such as "Shintō" (kanji:神道, hiragana: しんとう), "dōjō" (kanji:道場, hiragana:どうじょう), "Bushidō" (kanji:武士道, hiragana:ぶしどう), "matcha" (kanji:抹茶, hiragana:まっちゃ), and "seppuku" (kanji:切腹, hiragana:せっぷく).
Since Japan was the first East Asian country to modernize, the Japanese were the first people in East Asia to be exposed to new technologies and fields of study, and therefore the first to develop Chinese-based names for such things, such as telephone (denwa, kanji:電話, hiragana: でんわ), science (kagaku, kanji:科学, hiragana:かがく), and philosophy (tetsugaku, kanji:哲学, hiragana: てつがく), and each of these terms have been adopted into Chinese as "diànhuà", "kēxué", and "zhéxué" in the same order. This phenomenon is called reborrowing.
Tomils
Tomils is a former municipality of the district Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It was formed on 1 January 2009 through the merger of Feldis/Veulden, Scheid, Trans and Tumegl/Tomils. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Almens, Paspels, Pratval, Rodels and Tomils merged to form the new municipality of Domleschg.
Domleschg
Domleschg is a new municipality of the district Hinterrhein in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Almens, Paspels, Pratval, Rodels and Tomils merged into the new municipality of Domleschg.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan (born 1952) is an Indian-born-American-British structural biologist. He received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.
He was born in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India.
Ei-ichi Negishi
Negishi died in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 6, 2021 at the age of 85.
Ningxia
Ningxia is an autonomous region of China. It used to be a province. It was merged into Gansu in 1954. It was later separated and made an autonomous region for the Hui people, one of the 56 officially recognised nationalities of China. Twenty percent of China's Hui population lives in Ningxia.
Cam Clarke
Cameron Arthur "Cam" Clarke (born November 6, 1957) is an American voice actor and singer. He was born in Burbank, California. He is known for his voice-work in animation and video games. He is best known for providing the voices of Leonardo and Rocksteady in the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" animated series and Shotaro Kaneda in the 1989 original English dub of "Akira".
Muntaka Connmassie