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2 unusual facts about Ping-pong diplomacy


Ping-pong diplomacy

Cowan had been practicing for 15 minutes with the Chinese player, Liang Geliang, when a Japanese official came and wanted to close the training area.

According to History of U.S. Table Tennis by American table tennis players and Tim Boggan, who went to China along with the U.S. Table Tennis Team, three incidents may have triggered the invitation from China.


2014 World Championship of Ping Pong

The "2014 World Championship of Ping Pong" was a table tennis tournament that was held from 4 January 2014 to 5 January 2014 at the Great Hall in Alexandra Palace.

Antony de Ávila

With the club playing on AstroTurf for parts of the season, El Pitufo was surprisingly adept at what was called "ping-pong soccer".

Carlo Tresca

In early 1938 Tresca publicly accused the Soviets of kidnapping Juliet Stuart Poyntz to prevent her defection from the Communist Party USA underground apparatus.

Carol Bernstein Ferry

After Ping’s death, Mrs. Bernstein Ferry continued to support organizations such as the Advocacy Institute; the Agape Foundation, which sought for non-violent social change; the Albany, NY Friends Foundation; the Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal; the Westchester Rutman Special Olympics; and the Alternatives to Violence Project.

Chen Ping

Chin Peng (born 1924), or Chen Ping, a Malaysian politician

China Stamp Society

China Stamp Society chapters in the United States are located at: San Francisco Bay, California (Chiu Chin Shan Chapter); Los Angeles, California (Chia Nan Chapter); Chicago, Illinois (Ping Yuan Zhi Zhu Chapter); Dallas - Ft. Worth Area (North Texas Chapter); and, Seattle, Washington (Chang Qing Long Chapter).

Chitinimonas taiwanensis

Chitinimonas taiwanensis is a gram-negative, chitinolytic, catalase and oxidase-positiv motile bacterium with a single flagellum from the genus of Chitinimonas and the family of Burkholderiaceae which was isolated from the surface water from a freshwater pond for shrimps (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) in Ping-Tung in Southern Taiwan.

Duke Xiang of Qin

King Ping further promised to give Qin the land west of Qishan, the former heartland of Zhou, if Qin could expel the Rong tribes that were occupying the land.

Edelson

It is known for its Wii gaming center and ping pong table that converts into its board table in its main conference.

Former British Consulate at Takao

In 1860 the Treaty of Peking forced the Qing government of Taiwan (then Formosa) to open up the ports of Takao (now known as Kaohsiung), An-Ping (Anping, Tainan), Tamsui (Tamsui, New Taipei) and Keelung to foreign trade.

Giovanni Falcone

The Mafia was present in the area but quiescent; Tommaso Spadaro, a boy with whom he played ping-pong in the neighborhood Catholic Action recreation center, would later become a notorious Mafia smuggler and killer, but mafiosi were not a major presence in his childhood.

Girl Walks into a Bar

There is June (Rosario Dawson), a hatcheck girl for an exclusive nude ping pong club.

Groove Squad

Endowed with their superpowers like X-ray vision, Super Strength and the ability to Fly; cheerleaders Chrissy, Ping and Mackenzie soon finds themselves with a responsibility greater than winning the cheerleading competition—thwarting the evil Dr. Nightingale's plans for total world domination.

Henry Lee Junior

Lee is the son of Henry Lee Hok-Ping who was a motorcycle racer and worked for Sime Darby.

Ho Kwon Ping

Kwon Ping grew up and studied in Thailand He went on to Tunghai University in Taiwan where the exposure to Chinese culture left a deep impact on him.

Hong Liangji

In modern times, he is best remembered for his essay Zhi Ping Pian (治平篇, On Governance and Well-beings of the Empire) on population growth and its sociopolitical consequence, in which he raised many of the same issues that were raised by Malthus writing during the same period in England.

ITunes Ping

For the most part, these suspicious links are being posted in the comments sections of popular artists on Ping, such as Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and U2, all of whom are among the recommended accounts listed on the Ping homepage.

Jack Chertok

During the early 1960s Chertok ran a summer camp in Barton Flats, California, named Camp Purple Sage, which featured horseback riding, arts and crafts, ping-pong, etc.

Jang Bahadur Rana

1873-1877: His Highness Commanding-General Sir Jung Bahadur Kunwar Rana, T'ung-ling-ping-ma-Kuo-Kang-wang, Maharaja of Lamjung and Kaski, GCB, GCSI

Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health

On January 14, 2004 the Board of Regents established the first School of Public Health in the University System of Georgia and named it the Jiann-Ping Hsu School of Public Health.

Kaiping

In 1973, various people originated from Kaiping (Hoi Ping) started Hoi Ping Chamber of Commerce Secondary School in Hong Kong.

Koe Yeet

She studied at Catholic High School in Form 5 and represents Selangor in tennis and ping pong.

Kung Fu Chefs

As Wong Ping Yee was forced out of the village, he encountered Shum Ching (Cherrie Ying) and her sister (Ai Kago) by chance, and is determined to help them during the troubled times at their restaurant "Four Seas".

Liang Tsai-Ping

While at Yale University in 1945-46, he introduced a performance on the "China Program" with the American writer Emily Hahn, on DuMont Television.

Among Liang's students was the American composer Lou Harrison (1917-2003), who became the first American to become a proficient guzheng performer, and also a composer of idiomatic music for the instrument.

Invited by the overseas Chinese Teachers Federation, Liang performed in Singapore and in four cities of Malaysia, Bangkok, and Hong Kong in 1973.

Under the sponsorship of Pearl S. Buck, Liang gave solo performances in several major U.S. cities.

Lin Ben Yuan Family

The family were descended from Lin Ying-yin (林應寅), who immigrated, with his son Lin Ping-hou (林平侯), from Zhangzhou of Fujian to Xinzhuang of Taiwan in 1784.

Lingering Garden

The East Garden became famous in its day when the magistrates of Wu and Changzhou County both praised the design of Shi Ping Peak, a rockery constructed to resemble Tiantai Mountain in Putao.

Mae On District

The Mae Ta Krai National Park protects the source of the On River (น้ำแม่ออน), a tributary of the Ping River that gives its name to the district.

Mary Ping

In 2007, Ping's work was selected along with designs by Zac Posen, Proenza Schouler, Derek Lam, and Behnaz Sarafpour to represent contemporary sportswear in the Victoria and Albert Museum's New York Fashion Now exhibition.

Pai Ping-ping

At this time she had a relationship with Japanese comics writer Ikki Kajiwara and they later married.

In 1997 Pai Hsiao-yen, then 16 years old, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered.

Parliamentary ping-pong

"Lutte a la corde" (French, meaning tug of war, lit. "struggle of the rope") is an older term for Parliamentary ping-pong.

Ping An Insurance

Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, said that "the true ownership of large chunks of its shares remains unclear" and that the ownership of Ping An is a "murky structure".

Ping Chau

Magic Cop, a 1990 Hong Kong film partially set in Ping Chau

Ping Pong over the Abyss

The title comes from Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl," section 3: "I'm with you in Rockland / where you scream in a straight jacket that you're losing the game of the actual ping pong of the abyss."

Pingback

Some weblog software, such as Movable Type, Serendipity, WordPress, and Telligent Community, support automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article can be pinged when the article is published.

Quibbley

Quimbo - Quibbley's alter ego that dresses like Rambo carrying a ping pong paddle along with ping pong balls arranged in bandoleers.

ServersCheck

It can perform traditional network related checks (TCP, PING, traceroute) but can also be used to monitor a wide variety of other checks such as internet related checks (url, email chain, database checks, Windows checks (diskspace, CPU, memory, process, services).

Superscan

SuperScan is a free connect-based port scanning software designed to detect open TCP and UDP ports on a target computer, determine which services are running on those ports, and run queries such as whois, ping, ICMP traceroute, and Hostname lookups.

Tai Ping Shan

Victoria Peak, on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong which is often known by its Chinese name Tai Ping Shan

The Story about Ping

Soupy Sales and Howdy Doody both featured Ping on numerous occasions, and Shari Lewis's sock puppet Lamb Chop once played the role of Ping in an adaptation for sock puppets and ventriloquists.

Wang Ching-feng

Her speech aroused public protests, led by relatives of murder victims, such the entertainer Pai Ping-ping (whose her daughter was kidnapped and murdered in 1997).

Wong Tai Sin

According to the text Self-Description of Chisongzi (赤松子自述; "Master Red Pine") kept at the Wong Tai Sin Temple in Hong Kong, Wong Tai Sin was born Wong Cho Ping (Huang Chuping in Mandarin pinyin) in 338 in Lanxi, Jinhua, Zhejiang province.

Yung-Ping High School

Yung-Ping High School located in the west part of Yonghe District, New Taipei City.

Yung-Ping High School (aka YungPing and YongPing), officially named "New Taipei City Yung-Ping High School" (新北市立永平高級中學), originally founded in 1971 as a junior high school (grade 7–9), named "Yung-Ping Junior High School".


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