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unusual facts about Jeld-Wen


Greg Westaway

Since taking over in late 2007, Westaway has seen the club sign a new major sponsor, Jeld-Wen, and a new coach's sponsor, UD Trucks.


Andrew Lo

Andrew Wen-Chuan Lo (born 1960) is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Antibody microarray

When Tse Wen Chang and Nancy T. Chang were setting up Tanox, Inc. in Houston, Texas in 1986, they purchased the rights on the antibody matrix patents from Centocor as part of the technology base to build their new startup.

Calan Mai

On Nos Galan Mai or May Eve, villagers gather hawthorn (draenen wen, literally whitethorn) branches and flowers which they would then use to decorate the outside of their houses, celebrating new growth and fertility.

Carnedd Dafydd

Carnedd Dafydd rises to height of 1,044m (according to OS maps detail) and is usually climbed by first ascending Pen yr Ole Wen and then following the ridge along to Carnedd Dafydd, though it is also possible to make a direct ascent from Tal y Llyn Ogwen, first following the stream, Afon Lloer, to the mountain lake of Ffynnon Lloer then climbing up the slope to the summit.

Dharma Drum Retreat Center

Its faculty includes resident teachers such as the abbot, Guo Xing, and a native New Yorker monk, Chang Wen; monastic Dharma heirs such as Guo Ru and Chi Chern; and lay Dharma heirs, mostly Sheng-yen's western disciples, including John Crook, Simon Child, Zarko Andricevic, and Gilbert Gutierrez.

Doshin So

In 1936 Wen formally passed his title of grandmaster of Yihe Quán to Nakano, at the Mount Song Shaolin Monastery, at Henan province.

Duke Mu of Qin

Duke Wen of Jin expelled the Di barbarians and drove them into the region west of the Yellow River between the Yun and Luo rivers; there they were known as the Red Di and the White Di.

Duke Wen of Qin

Duke Wen succeeded his father Duke Xiang of Qin, who died in 766 BC while campaigning against the Dog Rong in Qishan.

Emperor Fei of Western Wei

Emperor Wen had little actual power, and also in 538, over Yuwen's desire for an alliance with Rouran, he was forced to depose Empress Yifu and marry the daughter of Rouran's Chiliantoubingdoufa Khan Yujiulü Anagui as his empress.

In 538, while both Emperor Wen and Yuwen Tai were away on a campaign against Eastern Wei, Yuan Qin was nominally put in charge of the capital Chang'an, although the official Zhou Huida (周惠達) was actually in charge.

Emperor Xianzong of Tang

Li Wu (李悟), né Li Liao (李寮) (changed 812), originally the Prince of Wen'an (created 805), later the Prince of Jiang (created 806, killed 826)

Five Punishments

The scale of the remittance payments can be gauged from the fact that at the time of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736–1795 CE), the average wage of a construction laborer in Zhili Province was 0.72 wén or 0.6 troy ounces of silver per day.

Fred Meyer

Fred Meyer Northwest Best is the company's "new concept" store in upscale Northwest Portland near Jeld-Wen Field (formerly PGE Park).

Gao Jiong

In 607, he offended Emperor Wen's son Emperor Yang of Sui (Yang Guang) by criticizing Emperor Yang's large rewards to Tujue's submissive Qimin Khan and was executed by Emperor Yang.

In 598, angry that Ying Province (營州, roughly modern Zhaoyang, Liaoning) had been attacked by Goguryeo, Emperor Wen send his son Yang Liang and the general Wang Shiji (王世積) to attack Goguryeo—a campaign that Gao tried to dissuade Emperor Wen from but Emperor Wen launched anyway, and in fact forced Gao to serve as Yang Liang's deputy.

Gordon Shi-Wen Chin

Gordon Shi-Wen Chin, 金希文, a Taiwanese composer and conductor, is a member of the faculty of National Taiwan Normal University.

Jia Yi

In 173 BC, he was recalled by the emperor to the capital Luoyang, allegedly to be asked about matters of mysticism by Emperor Wen, and was later made a tutor of his youngest son, Prince Huai of Liang (梁懷王), true name Liu Yi (劉揖).

King Wen sequence

Traditionally, it is said that 周文王 Zhōu Wén Wáng (King Wen) arranged the hexagrams in this sequence while imprisoned by 商紂王 Shāng Zhòu Wáng in the 12th century BC.

Li Wen

Coco Lee (born 1975), Chinese name Li Wen, Chinese singer, songwriter, and actress

Li Wu

He must have been born, however, in or before 805, as in 805, the same year when Emperor Xianzong's grandfather Emperor Dezong died and was succeeded by Emperor Xianzong's father Emperor Shunzong, he was created the Prince of Wen'an.

Library / Southwest 9th Avenue and Galleria / Southwest 10th Avenue

Presently, there is no regularly scheduled use of the turnaround loop here, but it is often used to store trains temporarily for use after events, such as a game at nearby Jeld-Wen Field stadium.

Liu Yikang

(It was also at Liu Dan's urging that Liu Yikang, during Emperor Wen's illness in 436, arrested and executed the famed general Tan Daoji, fearing that if Emperor Wen had died, no one would be able to control Tan.) Once, when Emperor Wen appeared near death, he commissioned Liu Yikang to be the regent for the crown prince Liu Shao.

Lü Clan Disturbance

Further, and more importantly, Emperor Wen became an effective, thrifty, hard-working and benevolent ruler, and the reigns of Emperor Wen and his son Emperor Jing were generally regarded as one of the golden ages of Chinese history.

M. C. Frank Chang

He also received Pan Wen-Yuan Foundation Award in 2008, Rockwell’s Leonardo da Vinci Award (Engineer of the Year) in 1992, National Chiao Tung University’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1997, and the National Tsing Hua University Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2002.

March 2013 Nantou earthquake

Kuo Kai-wen, director of the ROC Central Weather Bureau Seismological Center (地震測報中心) said on 27 March 2013 that a 100-km long blind fault probably exists at Ren-ai Township in Nantou County which caused the earthquake.

Masatoshi Nei

He also trained many graduate students and postdoctorals who later became leading figures in molecular evolutionary biology including Margaret Kidwell, Wen-Hsiung Li, Ranajit Chakraborty, Shozo Yokoyama, Aravinda Chakravarti, Dan Graur, Fumio Tajima, Naruya Saitou, Chung-I Wu, Naoyuki Takahata, Takashi Gojobori, Pekka Pamilo, Austin Hughes, Andrey Rzhetsky, Jianzhi (George) Zhang, and Sudhir Kumar.

Nanjing Ninghai Middle School

Nanjing Ninghai Middle School, founded in 1890 as Wen Zheng Academy, is a middle school in Jiangsu Province, China.

Premier of the People's Republic of China

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Ramón Ramos

During the summer of 1991, more than 20,000 fans turned out to help the Trail Blazers raise $130,000 at Slam ‘N Jam, an outdoor basketball and music event in what is now Jeld-Wen Field in Portland, Oregon for a trust fund to assist Ramon’s recovery.

Sky Burial

The novel involves a Chinese woman, Shu Wen, retelling her life in Tibet to Xinran in a tea shop in Suzhou.

Sylvan Kalib

Correspondence among prominent academicians in the collection—Milton Babbitt, Charles Burkhart, Oswald Jonas, Jacques-Louis Monod, Ernst Oster, Herbert L. Riggins, William Rothstein, Carl Schachter and Eric Wen, among others—documents the critical role and influence of Kalib’s work as Schenkerian theory, philosophy and methodology promulgated throughout American musical academe.

The Book of Three

They encounter Gurgi, a hairy humanoid living in the forest, who has seen Hen Wen cross the river Avren northward, and who is also able to lead them to the Horned King's camp.

He awakes to find his wound treated by none other than Gwydion, the crown prince in Prydain's ruling House of Dôn, who has been traveling to Caer Dallben to consult Hen Wen himself.

The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century

The front page of the November 10, 1897 Guowen Bao (T: 國聞報, S: 国闻报, P: Guówén Bào, W: Kuo-wen Pao), a newspaper from Tianjin, is used as the front cover of the book.

The Skeptic

Skeptic - A University of London literary magazine in the late 1950s under the editorship of Wen Su-Tung

Triangular decomposition

The second is to describe explicitly all the points of V(F) in the so-called sense of in Lazard and Wen-Tsun Wu.

Wang Wei-wen

He swam in the first heat of the men's 200 m breaststroke, finishing in third place and forty-second overall, behind Bradley Ally of Barbados, and Miguel Molina of the Philippines, with a time of 2:20.65.

Wen Jiao

Jiankang having been heavily damaged during the war (and the palace having been burnt during the war), Wen considered moving the capital to Yuzhang (豫章, in modern Nanchang, Jiangxi), but after Wang Dao opposed, noting that Jiankang was in a better position to monitor the northern defenses against Later Zhao, Wen agreed to keep the capital at Jiankang.

Wen Zhang

Ocean Heaven is his fifth film in which he plays an autistic son and stars alongside Jet Li, who plays Wen's father.

Wen-Hsiung Li

He is the author of the first texts in the field of molecular evolution, Molecular Evolution and Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution (co-authored with Dan Graur), and an author on more than 200 peer-reviewed publications.

Wu Wen-chien

Wu Wen-Chien (吳文騫 born June 9, 1977) is a Taiwanese Olympic long-distance runner that represented Chinese Taipei in the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics in the marathon.

Xu Zhixun

Xu Zhixún (徐知詢) (d. 934), Xu Wen's second son, who tried to become regent after Xu Wen's death but lost out against his adoptive brother Xu Zhigao

Xu Zhixùn (徐知訓) (d. 918), Xu Wen's oldest son, served as junior regent

Yang Pu

Xu Zhigao, hearing the news, prepared to resign and request the post of military governor of Zhennan Circuit (鎮南, headquartered in modern Nanchang, Jiangxi), but while Xu Zhixún was on the way, Xu Wen died.


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