Search results for "Song (surname)" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Gansu originally began as an acronym that was first used during the Song Dynasty in reference to two Sui and Tang Dynasty prefectures (州): ...
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  • he received protection and the imperial surname. That resulted in the Liao ... South Korean archaeologist Song Ki-ho, a noted Seoul National University ...
    24 KB (3,477 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
  • When the government official Dan Song proposed the Chinese calendar ... , Zhang Sixun (fl. tenth century), Su Song (1020–1101), Guo Shoujing ...
    53 KB (7,780 words) - 16:31, 19 January 2024
  • name" and they adopted the mother's surname. In other matrifocal ... fantasy such as Guy Gavriel Kay's A Song for Arbonne. ...
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  • Christian name Torquil, and the English surname, Thurkettle. ... namesake of characters, on television, in song lyrics, in comic books (especially ...
    24 KB (3,867 words) - 21:00, 31 October 2022
  • * "Buffalo Bill" is the title of a song by the jam band Phish. ... showman and aviation pioneer changed his surname to "Cody" and ...
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  • [3] Goguryeo kings had the surname Go, except for the second (Yuri ... names, unless noted otherwise. Chʻang-guk Song, Paekche wangjo 700-yŏn. ...
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  • who later adopted her mother's surname. Chen's autobiography ... had his residence shelled. Sun and his wife Song Qingling narrowly escaped ...
    31 KB (4,795 words) - 20:57, 9 December 2023
  • above, might have been kept as the surname for a different purpose: ... In 1989, Monty Python wrote a song called "Oliver Cromwell," ...
    31 KB (4,911 words) - 00:22, 18 November 2022
  • and then Gong Prefecture. In the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1179), the city’s ... requests." According to one official (surname Li), "Traditional women ...
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  • is said variously to date from either the late Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty or Ming Dynasty. Legends from the seventeenth century onwards credit him ...
    44 KB (6,584 words) - 00:21, 16 February 2024
  • Seven Military Classics by Emperor Shenzong of Song in 1080. ... fugitive warrior," which glossed the surname "Sun" as the related ...
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  • was during those years that he adopted the surname Heliade (also rendered Heliad ... Cântecul ursului, "The Bear's Song," a piece ridiculing ...
    64 KB (9,591 words) - 18:55, 7 February 2023
  • Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, taking the surname of his mother's British ... to his own children." In 1960, the surname Mountbatten-Windsor was ...
    84 KB (12,053 words) - 16:21, 13 February 2024
  • of the Spanish naming system. A Spanish surname therefore does not necessarily ... in Filipino rock of the 1960s was the hit song "Killer Joe," which ...
    42 KB (6,083 words) - 15:26, 27 March 2024
  • variants) is the second most common surname in Germany.) By the end ... from Jewish collectors, or buying for a song in occupied countries. ...
    51 KB (7,918 words) - 14:29, 12 February 2022
  • the king of Leh. He took on the surname Namgyal (meaning victorious ... , and alley yaato (a Zanskari dance and song sequence). A feature of a ...
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  • road. Of these militiamen, nine had the surname Harrington, seven Munroe ... Bunker Hill less than two months later, the song had ironically become a popular ...
    65 KB (10,526 words) - 02:50, 26 September 2023
  • words such as "dog" and "song", are usually called ... some people by first name and others by surname, and in titles such as ...
    112 KB (16,049 words) - 21:16, 26 February 2023
  • Though none of Chopin's family spelled their surname in the Polonized ... The 1945 biographical film A Song to Remember earned Cornel Wilde ...
    96 KB (14,156 words) - 07:08, 15 April 2024

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