Search results for "Languages of China" - New World Encyclopedia
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- In Japan, manga are widely read by people of all ages, and include ... that license and reprint manga in other languages. The largest overseas markets ...39 KB (5,688 words) - 21:37, 11 January 2024
- Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China For the civilization of China and its history see China ...97 KB (13,769 words) - 15:41, 13 June 2024
- The Kingdom of Thailand, known as Siam until 1939, lies in Southeast ... in the Thai language and is also the name of the majority Thai ethnic group. ...33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- antiquary, and a successful organizer of scientific inquiry. Peiresc’s ... Peiresc’s interests covered every aspect of scholarship and science ...16 KB (2,441 words) - 23:35, 14 November 2022
- Asia. Laos traces its history to the Kingdom of Lan Xang or Land of a Million ... in 1986 the government announced a range of reforms designed to create ...33 KB (4,958 words) - 09:37, 10 June 2024
- also spelled "Djawa") is an island of Indonesia and the site of its ... Formed mostly as the result of volcanic events, Java is the 12th largest ...34 KB (5,087 words) - 01:03, 9 February 2023
- Nepal in the west, Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north and east ... highest peak, sits in the northwestern part of the state on the boundary with ...35 KB (5,094 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
- Zen (禅), Japanese for "meditation," is a form of Mahāyāna ... to his followers. It was later taken to China by the monk Bodhidharma, ...37 KB (5,736 words) - 05:46, 13 June 2023
- who, during the 1930s, led a campaign of agricultural science, now known ... Lysenko was the son of Denis and Oksana Lysenko, a peasant family ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 17:45, 2 May 2023
- The Kalevala is considered to be the national epic of Finland and ... The central plot of the epic traces the journeys of the bardic hero ...26 KB (4,066 words) - 17:10, 14 May 2024
- The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of ... Web normally begins either by typing the URL of the page into a Web browser ...31 KB (4,531 words) - 13:58, 20 May 2023
- or key) is most often said to be the study of criteria for the evaluation ... Traditionally, logic is studied as a branch of philosophy. Since the ...31 KB (4,895 words) - 20:58, 3 November 2022
- who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during ... Berg was a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School ...35 KB (5,253 words) - 23:47, 29 May 2024
- The Commonwealth of Australia is a nation strategically located between ... and nineteenth centuries as well as a base of British economic exploitation ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- or entertainment-education) is a form of entertainment designed to educate ... to all human activities. In the field of positive psychology, theorists ...16 KB (2,367 words) - 18:18, 12 February 2024
- | language = English (includes content in other languages) ... in 1995. It provides full-text searches of digitized back issues of several ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 07:45, 27 February 2023
- ; a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the People's ... B.C.E., Beijing has served as the capital of numerous dynasties and governments ...59 KB (8,054 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- also is used to refer to the fruit of this tree, which is characterized ... The fruit, which advances the pomegranate's individual purpose ...26 KB (3,898 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands ... people. They have been at the forefront of the cultural clash that came ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 04:40, 1 May 2023
- Sukarno (June 6, 1901 – June 21, 1970) was the first President of ... The son of a Javanese school teacher and his Balinese wife from Buleleng ...25 KB (3,644 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
