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Deng Xiaoping (邓小平 Dèng Xiǎopíng); 1904– 1997) was a leader in the Chinese Communist Party.Deng never held office as the head of state or the head of government, but served as the de facto paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
The Yahgan (also called Yagán, Yaghan, Yámana, Yamana, or Tequenica) are a group of indigenous peoples in the Southern Cone of South America. Their traditional territory includes the islands south of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego , extending their presence into Cape Horn , making them the world's southernmost indigenous human population.
The 1949 Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Familiar Phrases quotes Barnard as saying he called it "a Chinese proverb, so that people would take it seriously." [ 24 ] An actual Chinese expression, "Hearing something a hundred times isn't better than seeing it once" ( 百闻不如一见 , p bǎi wén bù rú yī jiàn ) is sometimes claimed to ...
Yamana is a playable nation in Europa Universalis IV. In Akira Kurosawa's 1958 film The Hidden Fortress, the Yamana clan serve as the antagonists to the Akizuki clan. The Hidden Fortress anachronistically placed the Yamana clan adjacent to the Akizuki clan. However, Akizuki was based in Kyushu, while Yamana was in central Honshu, north of Edo.
Soo's career as an entertainer began in earnest at the end of the war, first as a stand-up nightclub performer primarily in the Midwestern United States.To avoid prejudice against him for being Japanese-American, he used the name Jack Soo while working in nightclubs such as Chin's, a Chinese nightclub in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Supreme Court's nine justices heard arguments on Friday in a challenge by TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance to a law that would force a sale or ban the widely used short-video ...
Yahgan or Yagán (also spelled Yaghan, Jagan, Iakan, and also known as Yámana, Háusi Kúta, or Yágankuta) is an extinct language that is one of the indigenous languages of Tierra del Fuego, spoken by the Yahgan people.
In the tables, the first two columns contain the Chinese characters representing the classifier, in traditional and simplified versions when they differ. The next four columns give pronunciations in Standard (Mandarin) Chinese, using pinyin; Cantonese, in Jyutping and Yale, respectively; and Minnan (Taiwan). The last column gives the classifier ...