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This is a list of notable Chinese restaurants. A Chinese restaurant is an establishment that serves Chinese cuisine outside China. Some have distinctive styles, as with American Chinese cuisine and Canadian Chinese cuisine. Most of them are in the Cantonese restaurant style.
This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places within the city limits of St. Louis, Missouri, north of Interstate 64 and west of Downtown St. Louis.
Holy Corners Historic District, so named because of its concentration of early 20th-century churches, temples and other large buildings of public assembly, is located on both sides of North Kingshighway Boulevard between and including Westminster Place and Washington Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri.
The first Chinese immigrant to St. Louis was Alla Lee, born in Ningbo near Shanghai, who arrived in the city in 1857. Lee remained the only Chinese immigrant until 1869, when a group of about 250 immigrants (mostly men) arrived seeking factory work. [3] In January 1870, another group of Chinese immigrants arrived, including some women. [4]
Chee Soo (born Clifford Soo, also known as Clifford Gibbs, 4 June 1919 – 29 August 1994) was an author of books about the philosophy of Taoism and in particular Lee-style tai chi, qigong, Ch'ang Ming, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Feng Shou 'Hand of the Wind' kung fu.
In 1990, with the support of Westminster College, Sandys and her husband, Richard Kaplan, traveled to East Berlin to secure portions of the wall. Upon their arrival in Berlin, however, the couple realized the sculpture would be costly, as 4-foot (1.2 m)-wide sections were selling for $60,000 to $200,000. [ 7 ]
China is an unincorporated community in southern Howell County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] The community is located along Missouri Route JJ, approximately eight miles (13 km) south-southeast of West Plains. The South Fork Spring River is approximately one mile (1.6 km) north of the site. The China Union Church sits adjacent to Route JJ ...
Grand Council may refer to: Grand Council (Qing dynasty), an important policy-making body in the Qing Empire; Great Council of Venice, legislative body that existed from 1172 to 1797; Grand Conseil, two institutions during the Ancien Régime in France; Grand Council (Switzerland), a unicameral legislative style adopted by a number of cantons in ...