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A c. 1760 painting of James Grant, John Mytton, Thomas Robinson and Thomas Wynne on the Grand Tour by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tutor or family member ...
The grand tour is a technique originally developed by Daniel Asimov 1980–85, which is used to explore multivariate statistical data by means of an animation. The animation, or "movie", consists of a series of distinct views of the data as seen from different directions, displayed on a computer screen, that appear to change continuously and that get closer and closer to all possible views.
Zhongli (Chinese: 钟离; pinyin: Zhōnglí) is a playable character in the action role-playing game Genshin Impact.He is voiced by Keith Silverstein in English, Peng Bo in Chinese, Tomoaki Maeno in Japanese, and Pyo Yeong-jae in Korean.
Year Game Developer Setting Platform Notes 1979: Galaxy: Microcomputer Games: Sci-fi: APPII, ATR, TRS80, PET, C64, DOS, FM7, TI99: First name: Galactic Empires (1979 ...
He and his minister Guan Zhong strengthened the state by consolidating power in the hands of the central government at the expense of the landed aristocracy, establishing a system of counties (縣; xiàn) ruled directly by ministers of the state court. [3] Qi annexed 35 neighboring polities – including Tan – and brought others into submission.
War in the Desert (WitD), GRD 1995. (see below) Europa X - Potential involvement of Spain and Portugal in World War II, including the planned German assault on Gibraltar. Spain and Portugal (S&P), GDW 1984. For Whom the Bell Tolls (FWtBT), GR/D 1995. (Covers the Spanish Civil War as well.) Europa XI - The Allied invasion of French North Africa ...
A Warring States bronze ding vessel with gold and silver inlay A lacquerware painting from the Jingmen Tomb (Chinese: 荊門楚墓;; pinyin: Jīngmén chǔ mù, circa 316 BC) of the State of Chu, depicting men wearing precursors to Hanfu (i.e. traditional silk dress) and riding in a two-horsed chariot
Yanmen Pass, sometimes translated in English to Wild Goose Pass [2] or Wildgoose Gate, [3] is named after the wild geese who migrate through the area. [1] Yànménguān is the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of the Chinese placename written as 雁門關 or 鴈門關 in traditional characters and as 雁门关 in the simplified characters now used in mainland China.