Papers 1481-1490 of total 46463 found.
…chronicles mention other theatrical activities such as skits, pantomimes, juggling, singing and dancing. This serves as an indication that there were early Chinese versions of popular entertainment. During the Yuan Dynasty, China was ruled not by a Chinese…
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…as destructively as in Indonesia, which by early 1998 had become the worst-affected victim. The 1997 Asian financial meltdown began in Thailand on July 2 after the collapse in late June of 16 finance companies alerted investors to the strains on the financial system…
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Category: /Literature/English
…, but it was during the Nara period that many new forms were introduced and worshiped. The imperial court of the Nara period was taken with the Chinese religion of Buddhism. Students were sent to China to gather and retrieve new information on Buddhism. Buddhist monks…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…himself the emperor of France and created the first French empire. Napoleon was a modern man and agreed with the principles of the revolution of equality of opportunity. He laid the foundations of the French legal, education and financial systems. After…
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…of the early acts of the Chinese Communist Party was to officially eliminate organized religion. Previously the dominant religions in China had been Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Buddhism came to china from India around the beginning…
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Category: /History
…Augustus Caesar’s rise to power and transformation of the Roman Republic into the great Empire was able to happen because of his great ability to gain support from his military soldiers, the senate, and the people. His relationship with each varied…
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…., not long after China became one unified empire as opposed to its prior loose configuration of feudal states. The first Chinese emperor, Qin Shi Huang restored ruins of older walls and organized the construction of an additional wall portion in order to create…
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…, this discipline, courage, and leadership was in abundance, and splitting from another British Army standard, during the 1860s the Army, began to immediately incorporate lessons learned across the Empire from China to Africa. This was especially evident…
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…: USSR (12,500,000); U.S. (12,245,000); Germany (10,938,000); British Empire and Commonwealth (8,720,000); Japan (7,193,000); and China (5,000,000). Most statistics on the war are only estimates. The war's vast and chaotic sweep made uniform record keeping…
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…withdraw from China and stop collaborating with the Axis. On December 6 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appealed directly to the Japanese emperor to work for peace. Early the following afternoon Kurusu and the Japanese am- bassador presented…
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