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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. List of heaviest people - Wikipedia

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    Billy and Benny McCrary, holders of Guinness World Records's World's Heaviest Twins. Alayna Morgan (1948–2009), heavy woman from Santa Rosa, California. Ricky Naputi (1973–2012), heaviest man from Guam. Carl Thompson (1982–2015), heaviest man in the United Kingdom whose weight at death was 413 kg (911 lb; 65 st 1 lb).

  4. 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.

  5. Robert Earl Hughes - Wikipedia

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    Robert Hughes was born in Monticello, Missouri, the son of Abraham Guy Hughes (1878–1957) and Georgia Alice Weatharby (1906–1947).He was born "weighing a hefty but not abnormal" 11 pounds 4 ounces (5.1 kg) [2] [3] and was a "fairly average-size baby until he contracted whooping cough at about five months old."

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Largest and heaviest animals - Wikipedia

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    At the highest estimates, this would make Perucetus the heaviest known animal in history. [8] The largest land mammal extant today is the African bush elephant. The largest extinct land mammal known was long considered to be Paraceratherium orgosensis, a rhinoceros relative thought to have stood up to 4.8 m (15.7 ft) tall, measured over 7.4 m ...

  9. 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 ...