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Punch (magazine). Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term cartoon in its modern sense as a humorous illustrati... |
Narrative (journal). Narrative is an academic journal published by the Ohio State University that focuses on narratology. It is the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (formerly known as the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature from its founding in June 1984 until March 20... |
Talë. Talë is a seaside resort town, part of the former municipality of Shënkoll in the Lezhë County in Albania. At the 2015 local government reform, it became part of the municipality Lezhë.[1] Its beaches attract many tourists, especially with the increase in small local hotels. |
Fukuoka Prefecture. Fukuoka Prefecture (福岡県, Fukuoka-ken; Japanese pronunciation: [ɸɯ̥.kɯꜜ.o.ka, -kɯ.o.kaꜜ.keɴ][3]) is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū.[4] Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 km2 (1,925 sq mi).[5] Fukuoka Prefecture bor... |
River Tale. The River Tale is a small river that drains the southern slopes of the Blackdown Hills, in Devon, England. It is a tributary of the River Otter and 8.8 miles (14.2 km) in length.[1] Its name is derived from getæl (Old English) meaning quick, active or swift; however, the river is noted as being sluggish.... |
Suwenxue congkan. Suwenxue congkan (Chinese: 俗文學叢刊; pinyin: Súwénxué cóngkān; lit. Book series of folk literature), with the English-language subheading Folk Literature: Materials in the Collection of the Institute of History and Philology, is a 620-volume collection of photomechanically reproduced Chinese performative... |
Folk tale (disambiguation). A folktale or folk tale is a story from the oral literature. Folktale, Folktales, Folk Tale, etc. may also refer to: |
Tale, Maharashtra. Tale, Maharashtra is a small village in Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra state in Western India.[1] The 2011 Census of India recorded a total of 1,352 residents in the village.[1] Tale, Maharashtras geographical area is approximately 999 hectares (2,470 acres).[1] 14°26′N 74°52′E / 14.433°N 74.867°... |
Tale, Iran. Tale (Persian: طالع, also Romanized as Ţāle‘)[1] is a village in Rastupey Rural District, in the Central District of Savadkuh County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2016 census, its population was 241, in 83 families,[2] up from 111 people in 2006.[3] This Savadkuh County location article is a stub. You ... |
Transcription activator-like effector. TAL (transcription activator-like) effectors (often referred to as TALEs, but not to be confused with the three amino acid loop extension homeobox class of proteins) are proteins secreted by some β- and γ-proteobacteria.[1] Most of these are Xanthomonads. Plant pathogenic Xanthomo... |
World Trigger. World Trigger (Japanese: ワールドトリガー, Hepburn: Wārudo Torigā), also known as WorTri (Japanese: ワートリ, Hepburn: Wātori), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Daisuke Ashihara [ja]. It was initially serialized in Shueishas shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 2013 to Novembe... |
Tohoku (disambiguation). Tohoku may refer to: |
Chubu Centrair International Airport. Chubu Centrair International Airport (中部国際空港, Chūbu Kokusai Kūkō) (IATA: NGO, ICAO: RJGG) is an international airport on an artificial island (which also houses the Aichi International Exhibition Center [ja]) in Ise Bay, Tokoname City in Aichi Prefecture, 35 km (22 mi) south of Na... |
Mausu Promotion. Mausu Promotion (株式会社マウスプロモーション, Kabushiki-gaisha Mausu Puromōshon), formerly known as Ezaki Productions, is a Japanese talent management agency representing a number of prolific voice actors. |
Literature (card game). Literature is a card game for 6 or 8 players in two teams using a shortened version of the standard 52-card pack. The game is sometimes called Fish or Canadian Fish, after the similar Go Fish, or Russian Fish. It is played in Tamil Nadu and Kerala in southern India and in parts of North America.... |
Japan Standard Time. Japan Standard Time (日本標準時, Nihon Hyōjunji; JST), or Japan Central Standard Time (中央標準時, Chūō Hyōjunji; JCST), is the standard time zone in Japan, 9 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+09:00).[1] Japan does not observe daylight saving time, though its introduction has been debated on several occasions. During ... |
Niigata Prefecture. Niigata Prefecture (新潟県, Niigata-ken; Japanese pronunciation: [niː.ɡa.ta, -taꜜ.keɴ, niː.ŋa-][2]) is a prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan.[3] Niigata Prefecture has a population of 2,131,009 (1 July 2023) and is the fifth-largest prefecture of Japan by geographic area at 12,584.18 km2 ... |
Palais Bourbon. The Palais Bourbon (pronounced [pa.lɛ buʁ.bɔ̃]) is the meeting place of the National Assembly, the lower legislative chamber of the French Parliament. It is in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, on the Rive Gauche of the Seine across from the Place de la Concorde. The official address is on the Rue de lUn... |
The Rose of Versailles. The Rose of Versailles,[a] also known as Lady Oscar and La Rose de Versailles, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Riyoko Ikeda. It was originally serialized in Shueishas shōjo manga magazine Margaret from 1972 to 1973, while a revival of the series was published in the magazi... |
Kurokos Basketball. Kurokos Basketball (Japanese: 黒子のバスケ, Hepburn: Kuroko no Basuke) is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Tadatoshi Fujimaki. It was serialized in Shueishas shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2008 to September 2014, with its chapters collected in 30 tankōbon ... |
Minamiuonuma. Minamiuonuma (南魚沼市, Minamiuonuma-shi) is a city located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 December 2020[update], the city had an estimated population of 55,354 with 20,047 households,[2] and a population density of 96.1 persons per km2. Its total area was 584.55 square kilometres (225.70 sq mi). Minam... |
Ashita no Joe. Ashita no Joe (Japanese: あしたのジョー, Hepburn: Ashita no Jō; Tomorrows Joe), also known as Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow, is a Japanese boxing manga series written by Asao Takamori and illustrated by Tetsuya Chiba. It follows drifter Joe Yabuki, who discovers a passion for boxing in a juvenile prison... |
Maya the Honey Bee. Maya the Honey Bee (Japanese: みつばちマーヤの冒険, Hepburn: Mitsubachi Māya no Bōken; lit. The Adventures of Maya the Honey Bee) is an anime television series produced first by Zuiyo Enterprise[5] and Asahi Broadcasting Corporation of Osaka. After the first 6 episodes, Zuiyo Enterprises animation studio div... |
Sendai. Sendai (仙台市, Sendai-shi; [seꜜn.dai, sen.daꜜi.ɕi] ⓘ) is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture and the largest city in the Tōhoku region. As of 1 August 2023[update], the city had a population of 1,098,335 in 539,698 households,[1] making it the twelfth most populated city in Japan. The modern city was founded in... |
Riddarholmen Church. Riddarholmen Church (Swedish: Riddarholmskyrkan) is the church of the former medieval Greyfriars Monastery in Stockholm, Sweden. The church serves as the final resting place of most Swedish monarchs.[1] Riddarholmen Church is located on the island of Riddarholmen, close to the Royal Palace in Stock... |
Désirée Clary. Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary (Swedish: Eugenia Bernhardina Desideria;[1] 8 November 1777 – 17 December 1860) was Queen of Sweden and Norway from 5 February 1818 to 8 March 1844 as the wife of King Charles XIV John. Charles John was a French general and founder of the House of Bernadotte. Désirée Clar... |
Names of Japan. The word Japan is an exonym, and is used (in one form or another) by many languages. The Japanese names for Japan are Nihon ([ɲi.hoꜜɴ] ⓘ) and Nippon ([ɲip.poꜜɴ] ⓘ). They are both written in Japanese using the kanji 日本. Since the third century, Chinese called the people of the Japanese archipelago somet... |
Désirée Clary. Bernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary (Swedish: Eugenia Bernhardina Desideria;[1] 8 November 1777 – 17 December 1860) was Queen of Sweden and Norway from 5 February 1818 to 8 March 1844 as the wife of King Charles XIV John. Charles John was a French general and founder of the House of Bernadotte. Désirée Clar... |
Surname. In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of ones personal name that indicates ones family.[1][2] It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name. In modern time... |
Tarō (given name). Tarō (太郎) (alternatively romanized Taro, Tarô, Talo, Taroh or Tarou), is a stand-alone masculine Japanese given name or a common name second half of such a name (literally meaning eldest son). Tarō can also be used as a surname, but the etymology and kanji are different. The name Tarō can have many d... |
Prince Kanin Kotohito. Prince Kanin Kotohito (閑院宮載仁親王, Kanin-no-miya Kotohito-shinnō; November 10, 1865 – May 21, 1945) was the sixth head of a cadet branch of the Japanese imperial family, and a career army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff from 1931 to 1940. During his tenure as ... |
Yamada. Yamada (山田; lit. mountain rice field) is the 12th most common Japanese surname.[1] |
Placeholder name. Placeholder names are names used as placeholder words, i.e., referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable or unpredictable given the conte... |
Kanin-no-miya. The Kanin-no-miya (閑院宮家) was the youngest of the four shinnōke, branches of the Imperial Family of Japan which were eligible to succeed to the Chrysanthemum Throne in the event that the main line should die out. It was founded by Prince Naohito, the son of Emperor Higashiyama. Fearing extinction of the i... |
Shinnōke. Seshū Shinnōke (世襲親王家) was the collective name for the four cadet branches of the Imperial House of Japan,[1] which were until 1947[2] entitled to provide a successor to the Chrysanthemum Throne if the main line failed to produce an heir. The heads of these royal houses held the title of imperial prince (親王,... |
BA. BA or variants may refer to: |
Imperial House of Japan. The Imperial House (皇室, Kōshitsu) is the reigning dynasty of Japan, consisting of those members of the extended family of the reigning emperor of Japan who undertake official and public duties. Under the present constitution of Japan, the emperor is the symbol of the State and of the unity of t... |
The Bachelor of Arts. The Bachelor of Arts (1937) is a novel written by R. K. Narayan. It is the second book of a trilogy that begins with Swami and Friends and ends with The English Teacher.[1] It is again set in Malgudi, the fictional town Narayan invented for his novels. The story follows the coming-of-age of Chandr... |
Boron arsenide. Boron arsenide (or Arsenic boride) is a chemical compound involving boron and arsenic, usually with a chemical formula BAs. Other boron arsenide compounds are known, such as the subarsenide B12As2. Chemical synthesis of cubic BAs is very challenging and its single crystal forms usually have defects. BAs... |
Bachelor of Arts (film). Bachelor of Arts is a 1934 American drama film directed by Louis King and written by Lamar Trotti. The film stars Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Arline Judge and Frank Albertson. The film was released on November 23, 1934, by Fox Film Corporation.[1][2][3] Alexander Ale... |
AB. AB, Ab, or ab may refer to: |
UTC+09:00. UTC+09:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +09:00. During the Japanese occupations of British Borneo, Burma, Hong Kong, Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Philippines, Singapore, and French Indochina, it was used as a common time with Tokyo until the fall of the Empire of Japan. Principal cities: Yakut... |
Terra (satellite). Terra (EOS AM-1) is a multi-national scientific research satellite operated by NASA in a Sun-synchronous orbit around the Earth. It takes simultaneous measurements of Earths atmosphere, land, and water to understand how Earth is changing and to identify the consequences for life on Earth.[1] It is t... |
National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), also known as the National Television Academy until 2007, is an American professional service organization founded in 1955 for the advancement of the arts and sciences of television and the promotion of creat... |
Kinki (disambiguation). Kinki may refer to: |
Sports and Recreation Center (Poland). The Sports and Recreation Center, Ośrodek Sportu i Rekreacji (OSiR) is an entity dedicated to promoting physical culture, sports, and recreational activities among the residents of a particular locality, primarily in Poland. Its responsibilities include maintaining sports faciliti... |
Kansai dialect. The Kansai dialect (関西弁・関西方言, Kansai-ben, Kansai hōgen; Japanese pronunciation: [kaɰ̃.sai.beɴ, kaɰ̃.sai hoː.ɡeꜜɴ, -ŋeꜜɴ, kaɰ̃.sai hoꜜː.ɡeɴ, -ŋeɴ]ⓘ) is a group of Japanese dialects in the Kansai region (Kinki region) of Japan. In Japanese, Kansai-ben is the common name and it is called Kinki dialect (近畿方... |
John F. Kennedy. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president at 43 years.[a] Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of ... |
Hokkaido (disambiguation). Hokkaido: |
Danny Jacobs (actor). Danny Jacobs is an American actor and comedian. Following his voice acting debut in 1999 with an uncredited role in Full Blast, he took over the role of King Julien (originally voiced by Sacha Baron Cohen) in The Penguins of Madagascar (2008–2015) and reprised his role in the Christmas special Me... |
Eartha Kitt. Eartha Mae Kitt (née Keith; January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer and actress. She was known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of Cest si bon and the Christmas novelty song Santa Baby. Kitt began her career in 1942 and appeared in the 1945 original Bro... |
Demonym. A demonym (/ˈdɛmənɪm/; from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos) people, tribe and ὄνυμα (ónuma) name) or gentilic (from Latin gentilis of a clan, or gens)[1] is a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place.[2] Demonyms are usually derived from the nam... |
Daytime Emmy Awards. The Daytime Emmy Awards, or Daytime Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the American television industry. Bestowed by the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), the Daytime Emmys are presented in recognition o... |
Kansai International Airport. Kansai International Airport (Japanese: 関西国際空港, romanized: Kansai Kokusai Kūkō) (IATA: KIX, ICAO: RJBB), commonly known as Kankū (Japanese: 関空), is located on an artificial island and serves as the primary international airport in the Greater Osaka Area of Japan and the closest internatio... |
List of islands of Japan. Japan is an island country of 14,125 islands, of which approximately 260 are inhabited.[1][2] Japan is the third-largest island country in the world, behind Indonesia and Madagascar.[3] Japan is also the second-most-populous island country in the world, only behind Indonesia. According to a s... |
Minor planet. According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet.[a] Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term minor planet, but that years meeting reclassified minor planets ... |
China. China,[h] officially the Peoples Republic of China (PRC),[i] is a country in East Asia. With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China is vast; it borders fourteen countries by land[j] across an area of nearly 9.6 mi... |
Childrens television series. Childrens television series (or childrens television shows) are television programs designed specifically for children. They are typically characterised by easy-going content devoid of sensitive or adult themes and are normally broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are aw... |
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is a research institute of the Smithsonian Institution, concentrating on astrophysical studies including galactic and extragalactic astronomy, cosmology, solar, earth and planetary sciences, theory and instrumentation, using observat... |
International Astronomical Union. The International Astronomical Union (IAU; French: Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international non-governmental organization (INGO) with the objective of advancing astronomy in all aspects, including promoting astronomical research, outreach, education, and development... |
Honolulu (disambiguation). Honolulu is the capital and the most populous community of the state of Hawaii in the United States. Honolulu may also refer to: |
Mike Young (producer). Michael Emlyn Young (born 16 October 1945) is a Welsh Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning producer. He is the founder of two animation companies in both the UK and America. His company in 2015 changed its name from Mike Young Productions to Splash Entertainment, which also is a majority owner of the AV... |
Peadar Lamb. Peadar Lamb (24 December 1929 – 1 September 2017) [1]was an Irish actor. He was known for his roles in numerous Irish-language stage productions, including playing King Fin Varra in the television series Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, and voicing Grandpa Piggley Winks on the childrens television series Jak... |
Tara Strong. Tara Lyn Strong (née Charendoff; born February 12, 1973) is a Canadian and American actress.[1] She is known for her voice work in animation, websites, and video games. Strongs voice roles include animated series such as The Powerpuff Girls, The Fairly OddParents, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Teen... |
Downtown Honolulu. Downtown Honolulu is the current historic, economic, and governmental center of Honolulu, the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. It is bounded by Nuʻuanu Stream to the west, Ward Avenue to the east, Vineyard Boulevard to the north, and Honolulu Harbor to the south. Both modern and... |
Russi Taylor. Russi Taylor (May 4, 1944 – July 26, 2019) was an American voice actress. She is best remembered for voicing the character of Minnie Mouse in English from 1986 to 2019, and was married to voice actor Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse, until his death on May 18, 2009. She was the longest-tenured vo... |
Asteroid. An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet—that orbits within the inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids). Asteroids are rocky, metallic, or icy bodies with no atmosphere, and are broadly classified into C-type ... |
ʻIolani Palace. The ʻIolani Palace (Hawaiian: Hale Aliʻi ʻIolani) was the royal residence of the rulers of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi beginning with Kamehameha III under the Kamehameha Dynasty (1845) and ending with Queen Liliʻuokalani (1893) under the Kalākaua Dynasty. It is located in the capitol district of downtown Ho... |
JPL (disambiguation). JPL is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a NASA research center in California. JPL may also refer to: |
Orbit. In celestial mechanics, an orbit (also known as orbital revolution) is the curved trajectory of an object[1] such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as a planet, moon, asteroid, or Lagra... |
Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor is an American lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. It was often visited by the naval fleet of the United States, before it was acquired from the Hawaiian Kingdom by the U.S. with the signing of the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875. Much of the harbor and surrounding land... |
Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator. The Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator is a chamber for testing spacecraft in space-like conditions, including extreme cold, high radiation, and near-vacuum pressure. Built in 1961, it is located at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. It has been used to prepare many ... |
Minor Planet Center. The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official body for observing and reporting on minor planets under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Founded in 1947, it operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The Minor Planet Center is the official worldwide organizatio... |
NISAR (satellite). The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission is a joint project between NASA and ISRO to co-develop and launch an Earth observation satellite (EOS) equipped with dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in 2025. It will be the first radar imaging satellite to use dual frequencies. It ... |
United States. The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with... |
Astrometry. Astrometry is a branch of astronomy that involves precise measurements of the positions and movements of stars and other celestial bodies. It provides the kinematics and physical origin of the Solar System and this galaxy, the Milky Way. The history of astrometry is linked to the history of star catalogues,... |
List of capitals in the United States. This is a list of capital cities of the United States, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial and Native American capitals. Washington, D.C. has been the federal capital of the United States since 1800. Each U.S. state h... |
Boston College (disambiguation). Boston College is an American private research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Boston College may also refer to several other educational institutions: |
Sojourner (rover). The robotic Sojourner rover reached Mars on July 4, 1997 as part of the Mars Pathfinder mission. Sojourner was operational on Mars for 92 sols (95 Earth days), and was the first wheeled vehicle to operate on an astronomical object other than the Earth or Moon. The landing site was in the Ares Vallis... |
Mars 2020. Mars 2020 is a NASA mission that includes the rover Perseverance, the now-retired small robotic helicopter Ingenuity, and associated delivery systems, as part of the Mars Exploration Program. Mars 2020 was launched on an Atlas V rocket at 11:50:01 UTC on July 30, 2020,[4] and landed in the Martian crater Je... |
Ever to Excel. Ever to Excel is the English translation of the Ancient Greek phrase αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν aièn aristeúein. It has been used as motto by a number of educational institutions. The phrase is derived from the sixth book of Homers Iliad, in which it is used in a speech Glaucus delivers to Diomedes. During a battle... |
Neo-futurism. Neo-futurism is a late-20th to early-21st-century movement in the arts, design, and architecture.[2][3] Described as an avant-garde movement,[4] as well as a futuristic rethinking of the thought behind aesthetics and functionality of design in growing cities, the movement has its origins in the mid-20th-... |
Geographic coordinate system. A geographic coordinate system (GCS) is a spherical or geodetic coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on Earth as latitude and longitude.[1] It is the simplest, oldest, and most widely used type of the various spatial reference systems that are in use, and ... |
Sumida, Tokyo. Sumida (墨田区, Sumida-ku) is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is Sumida City. As of 1 April 2025, the ward has an estimated population of 287,766 and a population density of 20,120 persons per km2. Its total area is 13.77 km2. Sumidas... |
Late Pleistocene. The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period. It is currently define... |
Boston University. Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodists with its original campus in Newbury, Vermont. It was chartered in Boston in 1869. The university is a member of the Association of American Universi... |
Latin. Latin (lingua Latina or Latinum[I]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy.[1] Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant lan... |
Alvan Clark. Alvan Clark (March 8, 1804 – August 19, 1887) was an American astronomer and telescope maker. Born in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Clark started as a portrait painter and engraver (c.1830s–1850s), and at the age of 40 became involved in telescope making. Using glass blanks made by Chance Brothers of Birmingha... |
Yamatai. Yamatai or Yamatai-koku (邪馬台国) (c. 1st century – c. 3rd century) is the Sino-Japanese name of an ancient country in Wa (Japan) during the late Yayoi period (c. 1,000 BCE – c. 300 CE). The Chinese text Records of the Three Kingdoms first recorded the name as /*ja-maB-də̂/ (邪馬臺)[1] or /*ja-maB-ʔit/ (邪馬壹) (using ... |
Yayoi period. The Yayoi period (弥生時代, Yayoi jidai) (c. 300 BC – 300 AD) is one of the major historical periods of the Japanese archipelago. It is generally defined as the era between the beginning of food production in Japan and the emergence of keyhole-shaped burial mounds (前方後円墳, zenpō-kōen-fun). Chronologically, it ... |
Greek language. Greek (Modern Greek: Ελληνικά, romanized: Elliniká, [eliniˈka] ⓘ; Ancient Greek: Ἑλληνική, romanized: Hellēnikḗ, [helːɛːnikɛ́ː]) is an Indo-European language, constituting an independent Hellenic branch within the Indo-European language family. It is native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Sal... |
Lovell Telescope. The Lovell Telescope (/ˈlʌvəl/ LUV-əl) is a radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Goostrey, Cheshire, in the north-west of England. When construction was finished in 1957, the telescope was the largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world at 76.2 metres (250 feet) in diameter;[1] i... |
Tobu Railway. The Tobu Railway Company, Ltd. (東武鉄道株式会社, Tōbu Tetsudō kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese commuter railway and keiretsu holding company in the Greater Tokyo Area as well as an intercity and regional operator in the Kantō region. Excluding the Japan Railways Group companies, Tobus 463.3 km (287.9 mi) rail sys... |
Kanji (disambiguation). Kanji (Japanese: 漢字) is a Japanese writing system that can refer to all Chinese characters in general, especially in the Japanese Language. Kanji may also refer to: |
Wa (name of Japan). Wa[a] is the oldest attested name of Japan[b] and ethnonym of the Japanese people. From c. the 2nd century AD Chinese and Korean scribes used the Chinese character 倭; submissive, distant, dwarf to refer to the various inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago, although it might have been just used to... |
Last Glacial Maximum. The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period,[1] was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice sheets were at their greatest extent between 26,000 and 20,000 years ago.[2] Ice sheets covered much of Northern North America, Northern Europ... |
List of named minor planets (alphabetical). This is a list of named minor planets in an alphabetical, case-insensitive order grouped by the first letter of their name.[a][b] New namings, typically proposed by the discoverer and approved by the Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN) of the International As... |
Logogram. In a written language, a logogram (from Ancient Greek logos word, and gramma that which is drawn or written), also logograph or lexigraph, is a written character that represents a semantic component of a language, such as a word or morpheme. Chinese characters as used in Chinese as well as other languages are... |
Furigana. Furigana (振り仮名; Japanese pronunciation: [ɸɯɾigaꜜna] or [ɸɯɾigana]) is a Japanese reading aid consisting of smaller kana (syllabic characters) printed either above or next to kanji (logographic characters) or other characters to indicate their pronunciation. It is one type of ruby text. Furigana is also known... |
Tokyo. Tokyo,[a] officially the Tokyo Metropolis,[b] is the capital and most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is one of the most populous urban areas in the world. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes Tokyo and parts of six neighboring prefectures, is the mo... |
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