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  2. Cian - Wikipedia

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    In Irish mythology, Cian or Cían (Irish pronunciation:), nicknamed Scal Balb, was the son of Dian Cecht, the physician of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and best known as the father of Lugh Lamhfada. Cían's brothers were Cu, Cethen, and Miach .

  3. Empress Dowager Ci'an - Wikipedia

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    Her father, Muyang'a (d. before 1852 [2]), served as an official in Guangxi Province and held the title of a third class cheng'en duke. Muyang'a's primary consort was the granddaughter of Qingheng (慶恆; d. 1779), a great-grandson of Nurhaci, [3] but it was Lady Jiang (姜氏), a concubine of Muyang'a, who was Xiaozhenxian's birth mother. [4]

  4. Comparison of Standard Chinese transcription systems

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  5. Zion - Wikipedia

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    Zion (1903), Ephraim Moses Lilien. Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן, romanized: Ṣīyyōn; [a] Biblical Greek: Σιών) is a placename in the Tanakh, often used as a synonym for Jerusalem [3] [4] as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole.

  6. Mount Zion - Wikipedia

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    The Tanakh reference to Har Tzion (Mount Tzion) that identifies its location is derived from the Psalm 48 composed by the sons of Korah, i.e. Levites, as "the northern side of the city of the great king", which Radak interprets as the City of David "from the City of David, which is Zion (1 Kings 8:1–2; 2 Chron. 5:2)".

  7. Languages of China - Wikipedia

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    There are several hundred languages in China.The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages, collectively known as Hanyu (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ, 'Han language'), that are spoken by 92% of the population.

  8. Sion, Switzerland - Wikipedia

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    These libraries include; the Médiathèque Valais Sion, the Bibliothèque municipale de Sion, the HES-SO Valais Médiathèque santé-social and the HES-SO Valais, Domaine Sciences de l'ingénieur. There was a combined total (as of 2008 [update] ) of 690,513 books or other media in the libraries, and in the same year a total of 294,320 items ...

  9. Congregation of Our Lady of Sion - Wikipedia

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    Together the Ratisbonne brothers established the Congregation of the Fathers of Our Lady of Sion in 1852. [ 1 ] In 1855 Alphonse moved to the Holy Land , where, in 1858, he established the Convent of the Ecce homo on the site of a ruined church of that name on the famed Via Dolorosa for the Sisters of the congregation.