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unusual facts about Wang Ch'ung-hui


Wang Ch'ung-hui

He was a close associate of the republic's founding father, Sun Yat-sen, an active member of the Kuomintang ("Chinese Nationalist Party"), and a judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice in the Hague.


2009 East Asian Games closing ceremony

The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, led by conductor Yan Hui-chang (閻惠昌), played the song "My Pride".

Alexandre Dinerchtein

He studied Go with several young Korean players that have since risen to fame, including Pak Yeong-hun —whom he beat once in 1998—, Park Chi-eun, Lee Chang-ung and Ko Geuntae.

Allen Law

In 2010, Law married Shin Hui (née Tan), the second daughter of hotelier Wee Wei Ling, businessman Wee Cho Yaw's daughter.

Baik Tae-ung

Baik was a legal advisor for the South Korean Delegation in the 56th United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and has worked for Human Rights Watch in New York as a legal adviser.

Bamboo stove

A monk named Xing Hai in the Ting Song temple on Mount Hui in Wuxi asked a travelling bamboo artisan to make him a stove on which he could boil water for tea.

In the Taiping rebellion of 1860 the temple was again destroyed and the rolls of poems which were found again in Shanghai given to the Mount Hui temple in Wuxi.

Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation

The Commission on the Unification of Pronunciation (讀音統一會 Pinyin: Dúyīn Tǒngyī Huì) was established in the Republic of China from 1912 to 1913 to select ancillary phonetic symbols for Mandarin, (Zhuyin was the product) and set the standard Guoyu pronunciation of basic Chinese characters.

Dancing Satyr of Mazara del Vallo

Alain Pasquier, "Praxitèle aujourd'hui ? La question des originaux", pp.

Ding Dexing

Ding Dexing was a Muslim Hui general of the Ming dynasty in service of the Hongwu Emperor.

Dino Attanasio

From 1959 à 1962 he published in Femmes d'aujourd'hui the comics series version of Les Aventures de Bob Morane, a series of novels written by Henri Vernes and for which he made some illustrations and art covers in the Marabout Junior collection.

DNA glycosylase

Four different uracil-DNA glycosylase activities have been identified in mammalian cells, including UNG, SMUG1, TDG, and MBD4.

Earl S. Hoag

His foreign decorations include the British Honorary Companion, Most Excellent Order of the Bath; the Norwegian Order of St. Olav, Commander with Star; the Chinese Special Collar Order of Yun-Hui, and the French Legion of Honor, Chevalier, and Croix de Guerre with Palm.

Eight Immortals

It is about the Immortals on their way to attend the Conference of the Magical Peach (蟠桃會 pán taó huì) when they encounter an ocean.

Four Great Classical Novels

While most attribute the novel to Shi Nai'an, there were some who believe that the novel, or portions of it, was written by others, such as Luo Guanzhong (the author of Romance of the Three Kingdoms), Shi Hui (施惠) and Guo Xun (郭勛).

Ganden Sumtseling Monastery

It is delimited in the north west contiguously by Tibet, to the north by Muli and Ganzi, on the west by the Salween River Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, on its south by the Lijiang; the populace is an amalgam of Tibetans, Hui, Bai, Naxi and Han.

Hui Cheung-ching

Hui Cheung-ching, SBS, JP (4 September 1942, Puning, Guangdong, China – 6 January 2005, Hong Kong) was the member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1998–2004 for the Import and Export constituency.

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

Kara Hui

In the early years, Hui's family resided in the poor shanty town of Rennie's Mill.

Kim Hyon-hui

Kim was originally trained as an actress, and starred in North Korea's first Technicolor film, playing a girl whose family fled to North Korea to escape poverty in South Korea, as North Koreans are taught that South Koreans live in extreme poverty.

Soon after joining the North Korean spy agency, Kim was given a new name, Ok Hwa and sent to live in a compound outside of Pyongyang.

Kim Jeong-hui

He used various Ho (pen-names): Wandang (阮堂), Chusa (秋史), Yedang (禮堂), Siam (詩庵), Gwapa (果坡), Nogwa (老果) etc. (some 200 in all).

Kim Kyong-hui

She attended the Kim Il-sung Higher Party School in 1966, and went to study at Moscow State University in 1968.

KMB Route 70

54 Luen Wo Hui Playground Sha Tau Kok Road Luen Wo Hui

Lady Xiahou Hui

However Yang Huiyu (Sima Shi's third wife) persuaded Emperor Wu, as a result Emperor Wu honored Xiahou Hui as an empress posthumously in 266.

Member states of the United Nations

Between 1993 and 2007, the ROC repeatedly petitioned to rejoin the UN as the representative of Taiwan, instead of as the representative of China, using the designation "Republic of China on Taiwan" (used by the Kuomintang-led administration under Lee Teng-hui), "Republic of China (Taiwan)" (used by the Democratic Progressive Party-led administration under Chen Shui-bian), or "Taiwan" (used by the administration under Chen Shui-bian for the first time in 2007).

Ning

Ningxia, abbreviated as Ning, Hui autonomous region of China

Panglong

The dominant group in the villages were the Panthay, chiefly Hui migrants from Dali, Baoshan, Shanning, Menghua and elsewhere in southern and western Yunnan.

President of the Republic of China

#President Chiang Ching-kuo died on 13 January 1988 and was replaced by Vice President Lee Teng-hui who served out the remainder of the term and won two more terms on his own right.

After President Lee Teng-hui succeeded Chiang as president in 1988, the power struggle within the KMT extended to the constitutional debate over the relationship between the president and the premier.

Roger Hui

Because the manual was written by Adin Falkoff and Kenneth E. Iverson, Hui thinks it reasonable to say he learned APL from Falkoff and Iverson.

Roussan Camille

Under Charles Moravia's directorship, he began a career as a journalist, publishing articles, poema and the column "Bel aujourd'hui" under his pen-name Nassour El Limac, in Haiti-Journal, Temps-Revue and L'Action nationale.

Soviet invasion of Xinjiang

General Ma Zhongying, a Hui (Chinese Muslim), had earlier attended the Whampoa Military Academy in Nanjing in 1929, when it was run by Chiang Kai-shek, who was also the head of the Kuomintang and leader of China.

St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts

The Centre has since hosted a wide variety of performers, including the Gryphon Trio; the St Lawrence and Tokyo string quartets; Marc-André Hamelin; Jon Kimura Parker; the Chamber Players of Toronto; MegaCity Chorus; Nexus; the ORIANA Women's Choir; Youth and Music Canada; and the Elmer Iseler Singers, who premiered Pimooteewin: The Journey (Melissa Hui, composer; Tomson Highway, librettist) at the Centre in February 2008.

Taiwan–United States relations

and the first ever Direct Election of the Presidency of Republic of China in 1996 and President Lee Teng-hui's 1995 visit to Cornell University of the United States that incurred the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis and the US intervention by deploying two aircraft carrier battlegroups near Taiwan Strait amid missile tests by People's Liberation Army in the nearby coastal provinces of People's Republic of China.

Te Wharerahi

A week later, on February 5, 1840, the three brothers attended a large hui at Waitangi (400 people) where they had an opportunity to speak publicly about the agreement which would become known as the Tiriti o Waitangi or Treaty of Waitangi.

The Postmodern Life of My Aunt

The film is set and was filmed in Shanghai and in Anshan, Liaoning, Northeast China (note: Anshan is the birthplace of director Ann Hui).

Tibetan American

From 1958 to 1960, Anthony Poshepny trained various special missions teams, including Tibetan Khambas and Hui Muslims, for operations in China against the Communist government.

Ung County

The rivers Latorica and Uzh (Hungarian: Ung, hence the name of the county) flowed through the county.

Ung Thị

Ung Thị (14 October 1913 - 10 February 2001) was a prominent Vietnamese business man who, together with his wife Nguyen Thi Nguyet Nga, built and operated the Rex Hotel and Cinema in Ho Chi Minh City.

Villa Aujourd’hui

She named this villa, Today, after her home in Palm Beach, Florida.

Wang Yuanji

Wang Yuanji's prediction came true later as Zhong Hui started a rebellion in 263 after helping Wei conquer its rival state Shu Han.

Wheelhouse Magazine

Recent Reading Series Participants: Steve Almond, Tung Hui-Hu, Steve Heller, Jan Baross, Diane Lefer, Leonard Schwartz.

William Vance

From 1967 on, he continued the stories of Bob Morane in Femmes d'aujourd'hui, a magazine aimed at adult women.

Xu Hui

Xu Hui was the daughter of Xu Xiaode, from Changcheng in Huzhou (modern Zhejiang province).

Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum

A Swedish version called Ung och bortskämd (Young and Spoiled) began airing on SVT on 8 November 2010 and were finished on 21 December.

Zhong Hui

Zhong Hui is first introduced as a playable character in the seventh installment of Koei's Dynasty Warriors video game series.


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