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  2. Xian (Taoism) - Wikipedia

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    In tomb reliefs from the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE), xian are often bird-human and reptile-human hybrids, depicted as "liminal but spiritually empowered figures" who accompanied a deceased person's soul to paradise, "transient figures moving through an intermediate realm" where they are often joined by deer, tigers, dragons, birds ...

  3. Factor X - Wikipedia

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    At that time, those investigators could not know that the human genetic defect they had identified would be found in the previously characterized enzyme called thrombokinase. Thrombokinase was the name coined by Paul Morawitz in 1904 to describe the substance that converted prothrombin to thrombin and caused blood to clot. [19]

  4. List of Chinese discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Aside from many original inventions, the Chinese were also early original pioneers in the discovery of natural phenomena which can be found in the human body, the environment of the world, and the immediate Solar System. They also discovered many concepts in mathematics. The list below contains discoveries which found their origins in China.

  5. Liexian Zhuan - Wikipedia

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    The Liexian Zhuan, sometimes translated as Biographies of Immortals, is the oldest extant Chinese hagiography of Daoist xian "transcendents; immortals; saints; alchemists". ". The text, which compiles the life stories of about 70 mythological and historical xian, was traditionally attributed to the Western Han dynasty editor and imperial librarian Liu Xiang (77–8 BCE), but internal evidence ...

  6. Eight Immortals - Wikipedia

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    In Singapore, the Xian'gu Temple (仙姑殿) is dedicated to the Immortal Lady He from the group as its focus of devotion. Overall though, in the Sinosphere , the Eight Immortals are depicted as deities who are very often not seen as such, being more like folk heroes and saints to most who venerate them. [ 13 ]

  7. Xiān - Wikipedia

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    Ten years later, the first tribute sent to China by Xian was mentioned in 1292. [13] The Chinese court dispatched emissaries to persuade Xian to submit the following year, [1]: 38 [13] but Xian refused. [1]: 39 It is recorded that an imperial order was issued again to summon and persuade the king of Xian in 1294. [1]: 39

  8. A pit of bones discovered under a castle could unlock key ...

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    Tests of animal bones found nearby suggest that the climate was harsh — comparable to modern-day Siberia. That means humans were having success in an extreme climate some 45,000 years ago.

  9. Traditional Chinese medicines derived from the human body

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    First, positive specific benefits for the ailments could come from effects of three (5%) human drug prescriptions alone (all for human blood, e.g., 52.17.3 drink blood mixed with water for internal hemorrhage from wounds, [38] two (3%) ancillary ingredients alone (52.15.11 [not breast milk but] desiccant tung oil is "miraculously effective" for ...