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10 unusual facts about Ming


An Shuxin

He was arrested on October 8, 1997 by the Chinese government, along with Su Zhi-Ming, since professing loyalty to the pope in Rome over loyalty to the Chinese state is forbidden in China.

Chen Jiunn-ming

He joined the school football team when he studied in Guan Yu Elementary School (管嶼國小) in his hometown Changhua.

Hou Chun-Ming

The title of Anecdotes about Spirits and Immortals was inspired by the name of Gan Bao's book In Search of the Supernatural.

Luke 'Ming' Flanagan

He was not portrayed by the media as a serious candidate, shaving his hair and styling his beard in the way of Ming the Merciless from the comic strip Flash Gordon.

Ming-Ming Zhou

The current focuses of his laboratory include the roles of the Trithorax protein complexes and the Polycomb repressive complexes in gene activation and silencing in human biology of health and disease such as stem cell self-renewal and lineage commitment, cancer and inflammation.

Ming's Samba

It was released in 1988 and features five quartet performances by Murray with John Hicks, Ray Drummond and Ed Blackwell.

Stuart C. Sealfon

Gonzalez-Maeso, J., R.L. Ang, T. Yuen, P. Chan, N.V. Weisstaub, J.F. Lopez-Gimenez, M. Zhou, Y. Okawa, L.F. Callado, G. Milligan, J.A. Gingrich, M. Filizola, J.J. Meana, and S.C. Sealfon, Identification of a serotonin/glutamate receptor complex implicated in psychosis.

Yok Mu-ming

In Guangzhou, Yok and his delegation members paid tribute at the Huanghuagang Mausoleum of 72 Martyrs honoring the deceased during the Second Guangzhou Uprising to overthrow Qing Dynasty and establish the Republic of China.

The delegations visited Beijing, Dalian, Guangzhou and Nanjing in a tour called "Journey of the Chinese Nation".

Zhixian

English translation County Magistrate, is an archaic title referring to an official position in ancient China which was used in the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties.


Cha Chi Ming

Cha Chi-ming GBM JP (1914 – 28 March 2007) was a Hong Kong industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Chinese coinage in the Ming Dynasty

He made Yingtian (today's Nanjing, in Jiangsu province) the capital and named the reigning dynasty as Ming.

Cuan Dixia

Experiencing hundreds of years, the houses here still maintain the style of Ming and Qing Dynasty.

Declarations of independence of Vietnam

#Bình Ngô đại cáo (Great Proclamation upon the Pacification of the Wu) was written by Nguyễn Trãi to speak in the name of Bình Định vương Lê Lợi in the Đinh Mùi year (1427), announcing the pacification of the Ming army, regaining the national independence, establishing the Later Lê Dynasty.

Donglin

Donglin movement, ideological and philosophical movement of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties of China

Edition Peters

The publishing house’s best known composers of the 20th and 21st century include John Cage, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti, and Morton Feldman, alongside its contemporary composers Mark Andre, Jonathan Dove, Bernd Franke, Brian Ferneyhough, Anders Hillborg, Rebecca Saunders, Ming Tsao and Erkki-Sven Tüür, to name but a few, as well the New Generation.

Fenwick Island State Park

The bay side of the park is open to fishing, recreational crabbing, clamming, sailing and windsurfing and kayaking.

Four Masters

Four Masters of the Ming Dynasty, four famous painters during the Ming Dynasty era in China

Fred R. Ming

Ming also attended the Ontario Veterinary College and followed his late father into that profession.

Galeote Pereira

Despite the severity of its punishments, Pereira extols the impartiality of the Ming judicial system, with its tradition of exemplary officials such as Judge Bao.

Haizhou

Haicheng, Liaoning, known in the Ming Dynasty as Haizhou Garrison (海州卫), a county-level city in said province

Hanshan

Hanshan Deqing (憨山德清), a Buddhist monk from the Chinese Ming Dynasty

History of Kaohsiung

Prior to the 17th century, the region was inhabited by the Makatau clan of the Siraya aboriginal tribe, who settled on what they named Ta-kau Isle (translated to 打狗嶼 by Ming Chinese explorers); "Takau" meaning "bamboo forest" in the aboriginal language.

Hong Kong Archaeological Society

In 2007, excavations in Luk Keng Village, Lantau Island was discovered two furnaces with more than 2,000 items belonging to Tang, Ming, and Qing Dynasty, with some belongs to Bronze and Neolithic age as well.

Hong San See

Called Nan Ming School, it was closed after ten years when it ran into financial difficulties.

Ji Cheng

Ji Cheng was born in the Ming Wanli Reign 10th year (1582) in Tong Li township, Wujiang county, Suzhou.

Jing Hao

In the early 17th century, noted Ming art historian Dong Qichang classified Jing Hao and Guan Tong as the two founders of the Northern Landscape style, juxtaposed against the two founders of the southern school, Dong Yuan and Juran, who developed their theories at the same time.

Jinghai Temple

Jinghai Temple (Temple of the Calm Sea) was built in 1416 by the Yongle emperor of Ming dynasty to honor Zhenghe who is not only a eunuch but also an envoy of the emperor.

Jurchen script

Jurchen script must have become much less known after the destruction of the Jin Dynasty by the Mongols, but it was not completely forgotten, because it is attested at least twice during the Ming Dynasty: on Yishiha's Tyr stele of 1413 and in a Chinese–Jurchen dictionary included in the multilingual "Chinese–Barbarian Dictionary" (华夷译语) compiled by the Ming Bureau of Translators (四夷馆).

Later Trần dynasty

Knowing the rift and weakness of the revolt, the Ming took the initiative to attack Thanh Hóa and Nghệ An in 1413.

Material Queen

As Chu Man becomes closer to Jia Hao, her goal of nabbing the real estate tycoon Yan Kai Ming (Daniel Chan) becomes less of a priority.

Ming Chi University of Technology

The school was established as 'Ming Chi Institute of Technology' in 1963 by Wang Yung-ching, an influential entrepreneur in Taiwan and founder of the Formosa Plastics Group.

Ming City Wall Relics Park

The Ming City Wall Relics Park is accessible by Beijing Bus to Dongbianmen (Routes 25, 29, 39, 43, 44, 59, 434, 525, 610, 674 and 特2), Chongwenmen East (Routes 12, 25, 39, 43, 44, 525, 610) and Jianguomen South (Routes 25, 39, 43, 44, 52, 122, 434, 637, 638, 750 and 特2); and by Beijing Subway to Chongwenmen (Line 2) and Jianguomen (Lines 1 and 2).

Ming Dynasty painting

Before he went to Ming China, he studied Song and Yuan styles of painting (Chinese/Japanese: 宋元山水畫派) in Japan, and wanted to seek for the very origin of the Chinese painting and the real spirit inside of the Chinese art.

Ming Hsieh

His family was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution as a part of China's upper middle class having ties with the old national government moved to Taiwan (Yingzhou, Ming's grandfather, was famous high-ranking official of Republic of China); as a result, his family was forced to move in 1966 to a small village near Panjin.

Ming Tsai

Tsai currently hosts Ming's Quest, a cooking show featured on the Fine Living Network, and Simply Ming on American Public Television.

MTY Food Group

They are Thaï Express, Country Style, Groupe Valentine, Vanelli's, Cultures, La Cremiere, Sushi Shop, Veggirama, Caferama, O'burger, Tiki Ming, Vie & Nam, Au Vieux Duluth Express, FrankxSupreme, ChicknChick, Croissant Plus, Koya Japan, Kim Chi, Panini, Tandori, Tutti Frutti, Villa Madina Mediterranean Cuisine, Sukiyaki, and the Canadian branches of Yogen Früz, Taco Time, and TCBY.

National Pei Men Senior High School

Hung Chin-chang and Chen Jiunn-ming, both Pei Men alumni and notable Taiwanese football players, were engaged to join the coaching staff.

New Italian Epic

In March 2009 the PhD programme Planetary Collegium M-Node, along with the School of Media Design and Multimedia Arts of the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan organised the symposium ‘New Italian (Media) Epic’, with the presence of Wu Ming 1, Derrick De Kerckhove, Pier Luigi Capucci, Francesco Monico, and many others including film-makers, artists and media theorists.

Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak

It was established in 1983, by Datuk Amar (now Tan Sri) Leo Moggie Anak Irok, after seceding from Sarawak National Party (SNAP) following his loss in the contest for the SNAP's president post against Datuk Amar James Wong Kim Ming.

São Paulo International Film Festival

The list of international filmmakers (including Brazilian directors) consisted of Wolfgang Becker, Maria de Medeiros, Hanna Elias, Amos Gitai, Mika Kaurismäki, Jim McBride, Phillip Noyce, Ming-liang Tsai, Andrea Vecchiato, Caetano Veloso, Yoshishige Yoshida, Theo Angelopoulos, Gian Vittorio Baldi, Marcho Bechis, Laís Bodanzky, Beto Brant, Manoel de Oliveira, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin, Jerzy Stuhr, and Wim Wenders.

Shimazu Tadatsune

Like his father and uncle, he was known for bravery on the battlefield, and during the latter half of Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea, fighting beside his father, he helped drive off the Ming army of over 100,000 men with only 8000 men.

Shō Gen

Shō Gen received his official investiture from the Ming Court in 1562, and received emissaries from the Shimazu clan of the Japanese province of Satsuma in 1570 and 1572.

Sichuanese Mandarin

This is mainly because many Xiang-speaking immigrants from Hunan moved to Sichuan during the great wave of immigration during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, so Xiang does not have such a close relationship with other southwestern varieties of Chinese, such as those spoken in Yunnan, Guangxi or Hubei.

Side carving

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the seal engraving art was commonly seen.

Steven Tainer

After a collaboration with Ming Liu (born Charles Belyea) in the 1980s and eight years of training and retreat practice, Steven Tainer was declared a successor in a family lineage of yogic Taoism.

Suzhou Museum

The collection of paintings and calligraphy includes works of masters from Song Dynasty to Ming and Qing dynasties.

Three Character Classic

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Three Character Classic formed the basis of elementary education, along with 2 other primers, Hundred Family Surnames and Thousand Character Classic.

Tsui Ming-sum

Ming-sum Tsui is a professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Tyr, Russia

The remains of the Yuan era temple unearthed at the site by modern archaeologists date to the 1260s, while the two Ming temples, built during the Amur expeditions by the admiral eunuch Yishiha, were constructed in 1413 and 1433–1434, respectively.

Xin Zhan: Red Cliff

# Yi ge (一个; One) (Lyrics: Lin Ming Yang, Music: Kikuchi Kazuhito, Arrangement: Nakano Yuuta)

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