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5 unusual facts about Xing


Klaus Hommels

He has been involved in successful internet investments such as Skype, Facebook and Xing.

Lars Hinrichs

Lars Hinrichs (born December 18, 1976, Hamburg, Germany) is a German entrepreneur and founder of XING, a worldwide social networking website dedicated mostly to cultivating business contacts.

In 2003 Hinrichs founded the Open Business Club GmbH, today XING AG, where both business people and students or job seekers manage their contacts.

Triple Nine Society

Members communicate with one another through email lists, a Facebook group, two Yahoo! Groups, a Linked-In group and a scheduled weekly IRC chat, and meet at arranged gatherings; European members have established a group in XING.

XING

OPEN Business Club AG was founded in August 2003 in Hamburg, Germany as a German limited liability company by Lars Hinrichs.


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.

Bill Liao

He was the first external investor in XING.com, then called openBC.com, which was founded by Lars Hinrichs in Germany in 2003.

Bjarne Tromborg

Several co-workers including Henning Olesen, Gunnar Jacobsen, Jens Henrik Osmundsen, Finn Mogensen, Kristian Stubkjær, Jesper Mørk, Xing Pan, Hans Erik Lassen and Björn Jónsson contributed to this work over a period of almost 15 years until 1995.

Chang Fei

Many celebrities will remember his famous quote from the early TV show, "Xiao Xing Zhuang Di Qiu" (笑星撞地球), saying "Are you Happy? Yes we are!" (快樂嗎?很快樂!) Fei is reportedly to be on his way to retirement, beating out his disciples such as Jacky Wu (吳宗憲) and Hu Gua (胡瓜).

Consort Dowager Liu

In 894, when Li Keyong was sieging his adoptive son Li Cunxiao, who had rebelled against him, at Xing Prefecture (邢州, in modern Xingtai, Hebei), when Li Cunxiao offered to surrender, it was Lady Liu that Li Keyong sent into the city to make sure that Li Cunxiao was, in fact, surrendering, and it was she who brought Li Cunxiao out to surrender.

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.

Erzhu Rong

Xing was captured and executed in summer 529, but Chen and Yuan Hao, who declared himself the emperor of Northern Wei upon entering Northern Wei territory, took the opportunity to capture Yingyang (滎陽, in modern Zhengzhou, Henan), defeating Yuan Tianmu as he returned from the campaign against Xing, and approached Luoyang.

Great Rites Controversy

Instead, his own father Zhu Youyuan, the late Prince Xian of Xing, was posthumously elevated to the status of emperor; Yang Tinghe was forced into retirement; and other enemies and dissenters at court were beaten, imprisoned, or banished.

Guan Xing

Guan Xing is first introduced as a playable character in the eighth instalment of Koei's Dynasty Warriors video game series.

Kang Cheng Xi

In a Mediacorp Forum poll, Ma Lu was voted as the second favourite character after Xiao Bao, surpassing veterans Li Nan Xing and Zoe Tay, with 22.5%(as of 1 March 2007) of the total votes.

Kenneth Yen

He attended Secondary School at Zai-Xing High School in Taipei's Muzha District.

Lars Hinrichs

Later in November 2009 Lars Hinrichs sold his stake in XING to Hubert Burda Media.

Nelson Quan

Nelson then was awarded the editor position for National Wildlife Federation and Xing Xing Digital Entertainment's Wild Animal Baby Explorers where he edited animations and lead the post-production team.

NUST Starfish 5

Starfish 5 (Hai-Xing or Haixing, 海星) is a Chinese experimental UAV developed by Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST) to gain knowledge of carrier landing technology.

PLAGAD Type B UAV

Type B UAV (B Xing Wu-Ren-Ji, B型无人机) is a Chinese UAV developed by People's Liberation Army General Armaments Department (PLAGAD).

Qiao Zong

In late 408, Liu Jingxuan advanced to Huanghu (黃虎, in modern Suining, Sichuan), and Qiao Zong sought aid from Later Qin; Yao Xing sent an army to assist him, but at the same time, Qiao Daofu was able to resist Liu Jingxuan's advance, and after the armies stalemated for 60 days, Liu Jingxuan's army ran out of food supplies and grew ill, and was forced to retreat.

Shōjō

In Cryptozoology, the shojo is often referred to as xing-xing and is believed to be a mainland orangutan.

Shueh-li Ong

2009 *Xing Paths (released under Xenovibes. Core member John Anthony Martinez, contributed three tunes to this album which Shueh-li arranged and produced.) Guest appearance by Dean Parks and Curtis Randall (band director/bassist LeAnn Rimes).

Xing Ling

Xing Ling (幸灵) is one of the lead characters from the Singaporean comic series, The Celestial Zone by Wee Tian Beng.

Xing Rongjie

Xing was born in Heipei, China and started his career in the army in 1933 as a Mission Commander of the Defend Group, which joined the Chinese Republic Army in 1937.

Xing Technology

Over the next several years, Xing expanded in several directions: Windows support for the XingMPEG player, a software MPEG audio decoder, a real time ISA 160x120 MPEG capture board (XingIt!), a JPEG management system (Picture Prowler) and finally networking.

Zheng Jun

Zheng Jun has achieved some fame within the US through his recorded Chinese language version of Coldplay's song "Yellow", entitled "流星" ("shooting star," pinyin: Liú Xīng), which was included in the soundtrack of the 2001 Taiwanese television series Meteor Garden I.


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