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3 unusual facts about Luo


Anuak people

They are believed to have a common origin with their northern neighbors, the Luo and Shilluk.

The Anuak , also known as the Anyuak, Agnwak and Anywaa, are a Luo Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting parts of East Africa.

Reunion F.C.

The club known then as Luo Union F.C. and, subsequently Luo United F.C., was founded in 1957 in Mwanza, Tanzania, as a welfare club of Luo Union, East Africa.


AMBER

It is maintained by an active collaboration between David Case at Rutgers University, Tom Cheatham at the University of Utah, Tom Darden at NIEHS, Ken Merz at Florida, Carlos Simmerling at Stony Brook University, Ray Luo at UC Irvine, and Junmei Wang at Encysive Pharmaceuticals.

Anyango

All tunes are acoustic sound without electric, they are traditional Luo songs arranged by Anyango.

Bullog.cn

In May 2008, after the Wenchuan earthquake, Luo started a fund raising campaign in Bullog.cn, and delivered the donations to the refugees with the Bullog team and other volunteers.

Desmond Tan

After almost five years in the industry, Tan won his first award, the Rocket Award, at the 2012 Star Awards for the biggest breakthrough after a critically acclaimed performance as rickshaw driver Luo Xiaoxiao in the anniversary drama A Song to Remember.

Destiny in Her Hands

The story begins with the main character Luo Jin Yu (Jeanette Aw) was born to a fried mee hoon seller mother and a gambling addict father.

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.

Grace Ogot

Many of her stories are set against the scenic background of Lake Victoria and the traditions of the Luo people.

Hypnosis Show

The other lead track "自我催眠" (Self-Hypnosis) is composed by fellow artist Jay Chou, especially for Luo with the music video featuring his then co-host on 100% Entertainment Barbie Hsu.

John Nunneley

He wrote an account of his wartime experiences and of the death of a young Luo recruit Tomasi Kitinya (Thomas Liech) in Tales from the King’s African Rifles (2000).

Luo Huining

After the Cultural Revolution, in October 1978 Luo was admitted to the Department of Economics at Anhui University, studying Political Economics.

Luo Jing

Throughout his tenure, Luo, often alongside his colleague Xing Zhibin, was the news frontman of China's state-owned network for all of the nation's pivotal events since the 1980s, covering the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests, the death of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1997, and the Chinese government's decision to crack down on Falun Gong in 1999, as well as the return of Macau to Chinese sovereignty in the same year.

His parents are from Sichuan province, and Luo himself, although born in Beijing, spoke the Sichuan dialect.

Luo Scientific Reserve

A Japanese team first started researching the bonobo population near the village of Wamba in 1973, and the Luo Scientific Reserve was established in 1990.

Luo Yigu

In their biography Mao: The Untold Story, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday agreed, stating that it was this experience with Luo that turned Mao into a "fierce opponent" of arranged marriage.

Luo Yijun

Luo attended Chinese Culture University, where he studied Chinese literature, and later earned a master's degree in theater from Taipei National University of the Arts.

Luo Ying-shay

Luo graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Department of Law of the National Taiwan University.

Mathare

In 2006, Mathare was damaged by violence between rival gangs the Taliban (not to be confused with the Islamist group of the same name), a Luo group, and the Mungiki, a Kikuyu group.

Miluo River

The river is formed by the confluence of the Mi and Luo rivers, of which the Mi river is the main branch.

Mwanza

Other ethnic groups in the region, in much smaller proportions, include the Zinza, Haya, Sumbwa, Nyamwezi, Luo, Kurya, Jita, and Kerewe.

Niu-Li Factional Struggles

the eunuchs, led by Qiu Shiliang and Yu Hongzhi (魚弘志), instead defeated Li Xun and his associates, leading to a general slaughter of much of the imperial administration officials by the Shence Armies, including the deaths of LI Xun, Zheng, the chancellors Wang Ya, Jia Su, Shu Yuanyu, and other participants in Li Xun's plot, including Wang Fan, Luo Liyan (羅立言), Guo Xingyu (郭行餘), and Li Xiaoben (李孝本).

Racism in Africa

Much of the ethnic conflicts in Kenya tend to usually more often occur only between the nation's larger ethnic groups such as the: Kikuyu, Luhya, Luo and the Kalenjin.

Reunion F.C.

Reunion F.C. is a former Kenyan Premier League club, created from the renaming of Luo Union Football Club in the 1980, in the wake of a purge instigated by the attorney general, Charles Njonjo, against tribally divisive clubs and organizations.

Self-medication

A study of Luo children in western Kenya found that 19% reported engaging in self-treatment with either herbal or pharmaceutical medicine.

Shade of Darkness

Luo Xiang and his family including his niece Luo Xiao-wei (Ada Choi) become hungry ghosts, unable to be reincarnated until they have avenged themselves.

Shilluk people

The Shilluk (Shilluk: Chollo) are a major Luo Nilotic people of Southern Sudan, living on both banks of the river Nile, in the vicinity of the city of Malakal.

Show Your Dance

Show composed up-tempo track "操盤手" (DJ) and Karena Lam co-starred with Luo in the music video for "我不會唱歌" (I Don't Know How To Sing), where her parts were filmed on location in Paris, France.

Sinosauropteryx

Hurum, Luo, and Kielan-Jaworowska (2006) identified two of these jaws as belonging to Zhangheotherium and the third to Sinobaatar, showing that these two mammals were part of the animal's diet.

Speshow

The romantic ballads "愛*轉角" (Love*Corner) is the ending theme song and "幾分" (How Many Points) is an insert song of Taiwanese drama, Corner With Love (轉角*遇到愛), starring Luo and Barbie Hsu, which were not released on the Corner With Love original soundtrack.

TEAMS Design

key people = Reinhard Renner
Klaus Baumgartner
Hans Peter Aglassinger
Ulrich Schweig, Hamburg
Zarko Bubalo, Belgrade
Paul Hatch, Chicago
An Luo, Shanghai
Martin Rauch, Shanghai

Thông Biện

The four monks mentioned are Mo Luo Qi Yu (Ma Ha Kỳ Vực) Kang Senghui (Khương Tăng Hội), Zhi Jiang Liang (Chi Cương Lương), and Mou Bo (Mâu Bác, i.e. :vi:Mâu Tử) author of the Mouzi Lihuolun (Lý Hoặc Luận).

Trendy Man

The music video features guest appearance by Party Boys, Barbie Hsu, Dee Hsu, Jolin Tsai, Blackie/Hei Ren, Da Mu, Gua Ge, Xian Ge, Chai Zhi Ping, Lin He Long and Luo MaMa

Wamba, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Wamba, Luo Reserve, a village in the Luo Reserve, Democratic Republic of the Congo


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