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  2. Dunhuang Star Chart - Wikipedia

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    The scroll with the star chart was found amongst those documents by Aurel Stein when he visited and examined the content of the cave in 1907. [5] One of the first public mentionings of this script in Western studies was from Joseph Needham's 1959 version of the book Science and Civilisation in China. Since that time, only a few publications ...

  3. Huang Jiguang - Wikipedia

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    Huang Jiguang (Chinese: 黄继光; pinyin: Huáng Jìguāng; January 18, 1931 – October 19, 1952) [1] was a highly-decorated Chinese soldier, considered a war hero for sacrificing himself to block an enemy machine gun emplacement with his body during the Korean War.

  4. Chinese star maps - Wikipedia

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    Suzhou Star Chart (蘇州石刻天文圖, 淳祐天文図) Huang Shang (黃裳) created in 1193, etched to stone in 1247 by Wang Zhiyuan (王致遠) The chart shows 1434 Stars grouped into 280 asterisms; the accompanying text, supposedly a key to the chart, lists 1,565 stars in 283 asterisms. [21] [22] [23] [24]

  5. Timeline of Chinese history - Wikipedia

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    Timeline of Chinese history. This is a timeline of Chinese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in China and its dynasties. To read about the background to these events, see History of China. See also the list of Chinese monarchs, Chinese emperors family tree, dynasties of China and years in China.

  6. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang suffers a $20 billion blow to his net ...

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    Huang, who cofounded Nvidia in 1993, owns roughly 3.4% of the company, according to Bloomberg. Indeed, the tech giant took a bit of a stumble yesterday, losing around $600 billion in market cap as ...

  7. Huang Xing - Wikipedia

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    Huang Xing was a descendant of Huang Tingjian, a Chinese artist, scholar, government official, and poet of the Song dynasty. [1] Huang Xing began his studies at the prestigious South Changsha Academy in 1893, and received his Jinshi degree when he was only 22 years old. In 1898 Huang Xing was selected to complete further study at Wuchang ...

  8. Kirstie Alley sets the record straight about her heaviest ...

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    (For the record, her heaviest weight was 230 pounds, not 300 as many outlets reported.) But there's one story from years ago that still makes her laugh today. "This is the funniest one -- It was ...

  9. The Taiwanese American cousins going head-to-head in the ...

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    Jensen Huang and Lisa Su have a lot in common. The chief executives of Nvidia and AMD aren’t just two of the most powerful people in the global AI chip industry, they’re also family.The ...