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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. 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 ...

  4. 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).

  5. Huang (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Ancestral Hall of the Huang Family in Majianglong, Kaiping, China Huang (/ ˈ hw ɑː ŋ /; [1] traditional Chinese: 黃; simplified Chinese: 黄) is a Chinese surname.While Huáng is the pinyin romanization of the word, it may also be romanized as Hwang, Wong, Waan, Wan, Waon, Hwong, Vong, Hung, Hong, Bong, Eng, Ng, Uy, Wee, Oi, Oei, Oey, Ooi, Ong, or Ung due to pronunciations of the word in ...

  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. Angus MacAskill - Wikipedia

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    Angus MacAskill (1825 – 8 August 1863) was a Scottish-born Canadian giant. In its 1981 edition the Guinness Book of World Records stated he was the strongest man, the tallest non-pathological giant and the largest true giant in recorded history at 7 feet 9 inches (2.36 m), he also had the largest chest measurements of any non-obese man at 80 inches (203 cm).

  8. List of world records in Olympic weightlifting - Wikipedia

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    Huang Minhao China 6 July 2019 Olympics Test Event: Tokyo, Japan [5] Clean & Jerk 190 kg Ri Won-ju North Korea 8 December 2024 World Championships: Manama, Bahrain [6] Total 339 kg Chen Lijun China 21 April 2019 Asian Championships: Ningbo, China [7] 73 kg Snatch 169 kg Shi Zhiyong China 20 April 2021 Asian Championships: Tashkent, Uzbekistan

  9. 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]