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and includes trivia questions inspired by cliche fortune cookie messages that Cookie receives. For example, the fortune ""You have a magnetic personality."" leads to a question regarding which metal-based fictional character might be most attracted to him.
- Funky Trash: Exclusive to "Y... | 20,200 |
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Then Buzz In And See If You Are Right...Question: Exclusive to "You Don't Know Jack 2011, iOS, 2012 Facebook, OUYA,"Roku", Party, and You Don't Know Jack 2015", the host gives up to four items and the player has to buzz in to the corresponding correct answer. The question is multiple cho... | 20,201 |
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is not lost if a player is wrong.
- Nocturnal Admissions (with Cookie Masterson): Exclusive to "You Don't Know Jack 2011", the host tells the player about a dream he had, which is based on a movie. The player then has to tell which movie that dream was about. The characters of the movie... | 20,202 |
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dream would be James Cameron's Avatar.
- Wrong Answer of the Game: Not a question in and of itself, the Wrong Answer of the Game appears in the 2011 and 2015 versions of the game, as well as OUYA and Party. Before the beginning of the game, the host announces a satirical sponsor for the... | 20,203 |
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/ Kangaroo, Peanut, Albert Einstein or Uranus? / Octopus, Coffee, Queen Elizabeth or Frankenstein?: First featured in the iOS and 2012 Facebook versions, questions in this category always have the same four answer choices: Elephant, Mustard, Teddy Roosevelt and Dracula. The question is p... | 20,204 |
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and Uranus, and in "You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream" its Octopus, Coffee, Queen Elizabeth, and Frankenstein, which could be either the monster or the Doctor (and is specified in the question's animation).
- Data Mining: Featured only in "You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream". A selection o... | 20,205 |
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"Data Mining" is a spiritual successor of the "Funky Trash" question type.
- Player's Choice: Featured only in "You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream". At a moment of the game, The Binjpipe host asks players, including the audience, to vote between two question categories. The question with ... | 20,206 |
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or rating of a movie or TV show that is recommended by Binjpipe, presumably influenced by your prior "viewing choices" as referred to in the question.
## The Final Round.
The final round of the game, called the Jack Attack in most versions and also known as the HeadRush in "HeadRush", ... | 20,207 |
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or name appears in the middle of the screen, to which the contestant must find an associated word or phrase that fits the overall category. For example, "Star Wars" might be the associated word, and the correct answer fitting "movie stars" could be Harrison Ford. Other possibilities offe... | 20,208 |
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$5,000 in "HeadRush", $4,000 in "You Don't Know Jack 2011" and "Roku", $1,000 in the 2012 Facebook edition, and $100, $500, or $1000 in "You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream" depending on how long it takes the player to press the answer) if they buzz in when the correct match is displayed on... | 20,209 |
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after either all seven subjects are either (a) matched with the right answer, or (b) attempted twice. The exceptions are the 2012 Facebook edition (the faces of those who did answer correctly are shown) and "2015", where all seven phrases are only shown once.
In "You Don't Know Jack: Fu... | 20,210 |
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or lost per choice (either $1000, $500, or $100). And since each player answers separately on their device, all players can score—either positively or negatively—on all the answers, but only once per selected answer.
In all version of the game, the running total of each player's score i... | 20,211 |
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game show where the players are the contestants. This idea is shown by satirical fake commercials that can be heard while starting the game, and in most games, after the game has finished (see Commercials).
In "You Don't Know Jack: Full Stream", instead of the game taking place on a gam... | 20,212 |
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can choose to listen to "You Don't Know Jack" staff performing parodies of various radio commercials. The commercials vary in absurdity, selling products such as scented suppositories or foreign language cassettes to help you learn how to speak American.
They also featured phony news st... | 20,213 |
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of Xena, Warrior Princess that gets involved in overtly erotic situations. Others are "The Movie Ending Phone", "1-800-me4-sale", "Cancer Stick tobacco lip balm", "Momma's Pride Human Breast Milk", "Buster's Bait Shop" and parodies of public service announcements from the fictional "Unit... | 20,214 |
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available for digital download.
## Hosts.
There have been many different hosts of "You Don't Know Jack" over the years. The following is a list of hosts and the games they appear in.
- Nate Shapiro (voiced by Harry Gottlieb) – Nate Shapiro was the first host of the series. He hosts "V... | 20,215 |
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two versions: "Vol. 2" and "The Ride", the latter which he only appeared in briefly.
- Cookie Masterson (voiced by Tom Gottlieb) – He is one of the most well-known of the hosts. He originally served as the sign-in host, taking down players' names in the opening green room segments of "V... | 20,216 |
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one special episode in November 2010). Gottlieb was also the announcer for the short-lived "You Don't Know Jack" TV show in 2001.
- Josh "Schmitty" Schmitstinstein (voiced by Phil Ridarelli) – Josh Schmitstinstein, or "Schmitty", is the most recent of all the American CD-ROM hosts. He h... | 20,217 |
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intercom in 2011 and the Facebook game.
- Jack Cake (voiced by Paul Kaye) – The host of the only British version of "You Don't Know Jack".
- Quizmaster Jack (voiced by Axel Malzacher in Vol. 1 and Kai Taschner in Vol. 2, 3: 'Downward', PlayStation, & 4) – The host of the German volume... | 20,218 |
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Vol.2" – November 30, 1996
- "You Don't Know Jack the NetShow" – 1996–2000
- "You Don't Know Jack Movies" – April 30, 1997
- "You Don't Know Jack TV" – May 9, 1997
- "You Don't Know Jack Sports NetShow" – 1997
- "You Don't Know Jack Vol.3" – October 31, 1997
- "Headrush" (a teen sp... | 20,219 |
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Know Jack" (PlayStation, has similarities to Vol.3) – 1999
- "You Don't Know Jack Louder! Faster! Funnier!" (2nd Offline game) – March 28, 2000
- "You Don't Know Jack 5th Dementia" (1st Online playable game) – November 1, 2000
- "You Don't Know Jack Mock 2" (2nd PlayStation game) – No... | 20,220 |
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- November 8, 2012
- "You Dont Know Jack Lite" – somewhere in 2012
- "You Dont Know Jack (Roku)" – somewhere in 2012
- Android - May 19, 2013
- "You Don't Know Jack" (OUYA) - June 11, 2013
- "You Don't Know Jack Party" - September 19, 2013
- "You Don't Know Jack 2015" (Part of the ... | 20,221 |
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copy of U.S. Vol.4 ("The Ride") in German
- "You Don't Know Jack (PlayStation)"
- "You Don't Know Jack Vol.4" – carbon copy of U.S. Vol.6 ("The Lost Gold") in German
## Compilations.
There are also several "You Don't Know Jack" collections, which bundled different games into one box ... | 20,222 |
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+ Vol.2 + Vol.3 + The Ride + Offline
- "You Don't Know Jack" 2001 – Both Offline games in one package
- "You Don't Know Jack" Snack Pack – Vol.1 + TV + Movies + The Ride
- "You Don't Know Jack" 5th Dementia Party Pack – 2 copies of 5th Dementia
- "You Don't Know Jack" Quiz Pack – the... | 20,223 |
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Ride + The Lost Gold + Sports + Movies + TV + HeadRush
# Reception.
The "You Don't Know Jack" series shipped 500,000 units by December 1996. Shipments in the United States alone rose to nearly 1 million by February 1998. By 2001, the "You Don't Know Jack" series had totaled sales of 3.... | 20,224 |
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Game of the Year" award, which ultimately went to "Smart Games Challenge 2". The editors called "Movies" a "hilarious party game", and noted that it "came a close second".
"You Don't Know Jack XL" won two 1996 Spotlight Awards, for "Best Script, Story or Interactive Writing" and "Best T... | 20,225 |
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award for the best classic game of 1998. The editors wrote, ""You Don't Know Jack: The Ride" ranks easily as the best since the first of the series found its way into the "CGW" Hall of Fame. And for that we salute the folks at Berkeley Systems and Jellyvision, game designers who really d... | 20,226 |
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was named the 48th-best computer game of all time by "PC Gamer US", whose editors called it "essential stuff."
# Other media.
During the 2000 presidential election, Sierra On-Line president David Grenewetzki challenged the presidential candidates to play a political version of "You Don... | 20,227 |
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It featured question cards with a number code on it and a grey button to open a sliding door to show the answers. It was the first game to feature 4 players instead of 3 players. There were also "Sports", "Movies", and "TV" question packs that were sold separately. A standalone handheld ... | 20,228 |
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"You Don't Know Jack" fans weren't even aware of its existence until long after its cancellation.
After the "You Don't Know Jack" TV show ended, another show from the makers of "You Don't Know Jack" called Smush aired on USA Network in late 2001. It was a game of taking two or more word... | 20,229 |
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he "You Don't Know Jack" TV show ended, another show from the makers of "You Don't Know Jack" called Smush aired on USA Network in late 2001. It was a game of taking two or more words and combining them into one long word. The show started late at night, but was later pushed to later and... | 20,230 |
420506 | Meng Haoran | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meng%20Haoran | Meng Haoran
Meng Haoran
Meng Haoran (; 689/691–740) was a major Tang dynasty poet, and a somewhat older contemporary of Wang Wei, Li Bai and Du Fu. Despite his brief pursuit of an official career, Meng Haoran mainly lived in and wrote about the area in which he was born and raised, in what is now Hubei province, China... | 20,231 |
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only by Du Fu, Li Bai, Wang Wei, and Li Shangyin. These poems of Meng Haoran were available in the English translations by Witter Bynner and Kiang Kanghu, by 1920, with the publication of "The Jade Mountain". The "Three Hundred Tang Poems" also has two poems by Li Bai addressed to Meng Haoran, one in his pr... | 20,232 |
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career, passing the Jinshi civil service test, beginning at the late age of 39 and ending not much later. He received his only position three years before his death but resigned after less than a year. He lived in the Xiangyang area almost all his life (although he traveled to the major metropolis of Chang'... | 20,233 |
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poets. In fact, Haoran composed several poems about Wei and their separation. While Wei focused on the natural world, in particular the solitude and reprieve it granted from human life along with the scale of the natural world, Meng Haoran focuses more on foreground details and human life, such as returning... | 20,234 |
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lling in religious seclusion. His works are generally considered less consistently successful than Wang's; however, the themes and styles of Meng Haoran's poetry helped to set a convention followed by younger poets, such as Wang Wei.
# See also.
- Classical Chinese poetry
- Meng Jiao
- Tang poetry
- Wa... | 20,235 |
420509 | Ma'adim Vallis | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ma'adim%20Vallis | Ma'adim Vallis
Ma'adim Vallis
Ma'adim Vallis is one of the largest outflow channels on Mars, about 700 km long and significantly larger than Earth's Grand Canyon. It is over 20 km wide and 2 km deep in some places. It runs from a region of southern lowlands thought to have once contained a large group of lakes (see Er... | 20,236 |
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nic materials from Apollinaris Mons, a nearby volcano.
Ma'adim Vallis is in the Aeolis quadrangle.
Ma'adim Vallis is thought to have been carved by flowing water early in Mars' history. Some of the short narrow channels along the walls of Ma'adim are probably sapping channels. Sapping occurs when groun... | 20,237 |
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Watkin's Tower
Watkin's Tower was a partially completed iron lattice tower in Wembley Park, London, England (then in Middlesex). Its construction was an ambitious project to create a -high visitor attraction in Wembley Park to the north of the city, led by the railway entrepreneur Sir Edward Watkin. Mar... | 20,238 |
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during its planning, construction and legacy. These include Watkin's Tower, Watkin's Folly, the Wembley Park Tower, the Wembley Tower, the Metropolitan Tower, and the London Stump.
# History.
Sir Edward Watkin (1819–1901) was a British Member of Parliament and railway entrepreneur, noted for being chai... | 20,239 |
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to accommodate the larger continental European trains which would cross into Britain from France. Although the channel tunnel project failed in 1881, Watkin remained a driven innovator, inspired by grand schemes which could augment his railway empire.
Among his numerous railway executive appointments, W... | 20,240 |
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and needed a major attraction to lure the crowds out of the city and onto his trains. To this end, Watkin purchased a tract of land near a rural Middlesex hamlet called Wembley, adjacent to the route of the Metropolitan Railway, with the goal of building an amusement park laid out with boating lakes, a w... | 20,241 |
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station.
The paying public was to gain access to Wembley Park and its tower by train, arriving at the new Wembley Park station which the Metropolitan Railway constructed specially for the attraction, incorporating additional platforms to handle the large crowds which Watkin confidently anticipated would... | 20,242 |
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in 1890, and a total of 68 designs were submitted. Some of the more exotic proposals included a £1m tower inspired by the Tower of Pisa; a structure with "a captive parachute to hold four persons"; and a tower with a spiral railway climbing its exterior. One design included a 1/12-scale model of the Grea... | 20,243 |
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– winter gardens, Turkish baths and a 90-bedroom hotel. The top of the tower, reached by a system of lifts, was to provide a fresh-air sanatorium and an astronomical observatory, taking advantage of the clearer air offered by the altitude. The entire structure was to be illuminated by electric light.
Wa... | 20,244 |
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octagonal design was scaled back to a cheaper, four-legged design that bore much more resemblance to the Eiffel Tower. The foundations were laid in 1892 and construction work commenced in June 1893. At the same time, the surrounding park began to be laid out with a cricket pitch and a boating lake, in re... | 20,245 |
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standing at approximately high. At this time, work was behind schedule as Watkin retired through ill health. It was soon discovered that the structure's foundations were unsteady — the reduction in the number of the tower's legs, carried out to reduce costs, had resulted in increased pressure on each leg... | 20,246 |
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in 1904 to 1907.
Despite the failure and destruction of Watkin's star attraction, Wembley Park continued to flourish as a popular recreation venue, offering football, cricket, cycling, rowing, athletics and in winter, ice skating on the frozen lake. By the end of World War I, over a hundred sports clubs... | 20,247 |
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Railway company. Among the pavilions and halls designed for the exhibition by John William Simpson, Maxwell Ayrton and Owen Williams was a grand sports arena, the 125,000-capacity British Empire Exhibition Stadium, later to be known as Wembley Stadium. It was built on the site of Watkin's Tower, covering... | 20,248 |
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tower. In the north west of England, the Blackpool Tower (1894), New Brighton Tower (1896) and Morecambe Tower (1898) were also built, although only the Blackpool Tower remains standing.
Although Watkin's tower has gone, Wembley Park continues to attract large crowds to sporting and musical events at We... | 20,249 |
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in the 1973 BBC documentary by the then Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman, "Metro-land". In the programme, Betjeman described Watkin's vision of creating an engineering wonder in a little-known rural area north of London:
The programme also showed some of the unsuccessful designs for the tower. The scrip... | 20,250 |
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land". In the programme, Betjeman described Watkin's vision of creating an engineering wonder in a little-known rural area north of London:
The programme also showed some of the unsuccessful designs for the tower. The script for "Metro-land" can be found in "Betjeman's England", a collection of writings... | 20,251 |
420483 | Bai Juyi | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bai%20Juyi | Bai Juyi
Bai Juyi
Bai Juyi (also Bo Juyi or Po Chü-i; ; 772–846), courtesy name Letian (), was a renowned Chinese poet and Tang dynasty government official. Many of his poems concern his career or observations made about everyday life, including as governor of three different provinces.
Bai was also influential in th... | 20,252 |
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the Tang Empire, following the An Lushan Rebellion, and following the poetically flourishing era famous for Li Bai (701－762), Wang Wei (701－761), and Du Fu (712－770). Bai Juyi lived through the reigns of eight or nine emperors, being born in the "Dali" regnal era (766-779) of Emperor Daizong of Tang. He had a ... | 20,253 |
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most of his childhood. His family was poor but scholarly, his father being an Assistant Department Magistrate of the second-class. At the age of ten he was sent away from his family to avoid a war that broke out in the north of China, and went to live with relatives in the area known as Jiangnan, more specific... | 20,254 |
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the death of his parent, which he did along the Wei River, near to the capital. 806, the first full year of the reign of Emperor Xianzong of Tang, was the year when Bai Juyi was appointed to a minor post as a government official, at Zhouzhi, which was not far from Chang'an (and also in Shaanxi province). He wa... | 20,255 |
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one which he was soon to lose.
## Exile.
While serving as a minor palace official in 814, Bai managed to get himself in official trouble. He made enemies at court and with certain individuals in other positions. It was partly his written works which led him into trouble. He wrote two long memorials, translat... | 20,256 |
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Circuit (centered in Zhumadian), an act for which he sought reconciliation with the imperial government, trying to get an imperial pardon as a necessary prerequisite. Despite the intercession of influential friends, Wu was denied, thus officially putting him in the position of rebellion. Still seeking a pardon... | 20,257 |
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at his retinue. His servants all fled, and the assassins seized Wu Yuanheng and his horse, and then decapitated him, taking his head with them. The assassins also attacked another official who favored the campaign against the rebellious warlords, Pei Du, but was unable to kill him. The people at the capital we... | 20,258 |
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This was not the only charge which his opponents used against him. His mother had died, apparently caused by falling into a well while looking at some flowers, and two poems written by Bai Juyi — the titles of which Waley translates as "In Praise of Flowers" and "The New Well" — were used against him as a sign... | 20,259 |
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there was up the Yangzi River. This trip allowed Bai Juyi a few days to visit his friend Yuan Zhen, who was also in exile and with whom he explored the rock caves located at Yichang. Bai Juyi was delighted by the flowers and trees for which his new location was noted. In 819, he was recalled back to the capita... | 20,260 |
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"jiedushi", began to challenge the central Tang government, leading to the new de facto independence of three circuits north of the Yellow River, which had been previously subdued by Emperor Xianzong. Furthermore, Muzong's administration was characterized by massive corruption. Again, Bai Juyi wrote a series o... | 20,261 |
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Ningbo, also in what is today Zhejiang, so the two could occasionally get together, at least until Bai Juyi's term as Governor expired.
As governor of Hangzhou, Bai Juyi realised that the farmland nearby depended on the water of West Lake, but, due to the negligence of previous governors, the old dike had col... | 20,262 |
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of West Lake, visiting the lake almost every day. He ordered the construction of a causeway to allow walking on foot, instead of requiring the services of a boat. A causeway in the West Lake (Baisha Causeway, 白沙堤) was later referred to as Bai Causeway in Bai Juyi's honour, but the original causeway built by Ba... | 20,263 |
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empire and was a major metropolis with a population of around one million and a reputation as the "cultural capital," as opposed to the more politically oriented capital of Chang'an.
## Governor of Suzhou.
In 825, at the age of fifty-three, Bai Juyi was given the position of Governor (Prefect) of Suzhou, sit... | 20,264 |
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official posts in the capital, and then again as prefect/governor, this time in Henan, the province in which Luoyang was located. It was in Henan that his first son was born, though only to die prematurely the next year. In 831 Yuan Zhen died. For the next thirteen years, Bai Juyi continued to hold various nom... | 20,265 |
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carved out of the rock. In 839, he experienced a paralytic attack, losing the use of his left leg, and became a bedridden invalid for several months. After his partial recovery, he spent his final years arranging his Collected Works, which he presented to the main monasteries of those localities in which he ha... | 20,266 |
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52 meters in circumference, and with a 2.80 meter high Monument inscribed "Bai Juyi".
# Works.
Bai Juyi has been known for his plain, direct, and easily comprehensible style of verse, as well as for his social and political criticism. Besides his surviving poems, several letters and essays are also extant.
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Juyi's poems made them extremely popular in his lifetime, in both China and Japan, and they continue to be read in these countries today.
## Famous poems.
Two of his most famous works are the long narrative poems "Chang hen ge" ("Song of Everlasting Sorrow"), which tells the story of Yang Guifei, and "The So... | 20,268 |
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officials with whom he studied and traveled. These speak of sharing wine, sleeping together, and viewing the moon and mountains. One friend, Yu Shunzhi, sent Bai a bolt of cloth as a gift from a far-off posting, and Bai Juyi debated on how best to use the precious material:
Bai's works were also highly renown... | 20,269 |
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progress was explicitly one of his objectives. He is also known for his well-written poems in the regulated verse style.
## Art criticism.
Bai was a poet of the middle Tang Dynasty. It was a period after the An Lushan Rebellion, the Tang Empire was in rebuilding and recovery. As a government official and a l... | 20,270 |
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and a well-defined social purpose. That makes him not satisfied with cultural performance styles of Tang court.
For instance, in his work of "FaquGe(法曲歌)," translated as "Model Music", is a poem regard to a kind of performing art, he made the following statement:
but the barbarian music sounds evil and disor... | 20,271 |
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the culture of the "Western Region" (西域), and Buddhism. The conflict between the mainstream Han culture and minority culture exposed after the An Lushan Rebellion. The alien culture was so popular and it had seriously threatened the status of Han culture.
Musical performances at the Tang court are of two type... | 20,272 |
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reflected the phenomenon of "decline in imperial court music". In this poem, Bai mercilessly pointed out that music style of both seated performances and standing performances were deeply influenced by foreign culture.
Seated performances are more elegant than standing performances. Players in the Seating Sec... | 20,273 |
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This poem shows the culture changing in the middle Tang Dynasty and the decline of Yayue, a form of classical music and dance performed at the royal court and temples
In those two poems of Bai reflected the situation of political and culture in the middle Tang Dynasty after the An Lushan Rebellion, and he was... | 20,274 |
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Bai as "overbearing in force, yet feeble in energy ("qi"), like domineering merchants in the market place." Bai's poetry was immensely popular in his own lifetime, but his popularity, his use of vernacular, the sensual delicacy of some of his poetry, led to criticism of him being "common" or "vulgar". In a tom... | 20,275 |
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inscribed on walls; mothers and fathers teach them to sons and daughters orally, through winter's cold and summer's heat their lascivious phrases and overly familiar words have entered people's flesh and bone and cannot be gotten out. I have no position and cannot use the law to bring this under control."
Bai... | 20,276 |
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and easy to understand, and posterity has requited his efforts by making him one of the most well-loved and widely read of all Chinese poets, both in his native land and in the other countries of the East that participate in the appreciation of Chinese culture. He is also, thanks to the translations and biogra... | 20,277 |
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H (ed.). "The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature". Indiana University Press 1986.
- Arthur Waley, "The Life and Times of Po Chü-I, 772-846 A.D" (New York,: Macmillan, 1949). 238p.
- Waley, Arthur (1941). "Translations from the Chinese". New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
- Watson, Burton (1971). "C... | 20,278 |
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Knopf.
- Watson, Burton (1971). "Chinese Lyricism: Shih Poetry from the Second to the Twelfth Century". (New York: Columbia University Press).
# External links.
- Bai Juyi: Poems — English translations of Bai Juyi's poetry.
- Translations of Chinese poems
- Chinese poems in translation
- Six Bai Juyi's p... | 20,279 |
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Li Shangyin
Li Shangyin (c. 813858), courtesy name Yishan (義山), was a Chinese poet of the late Tang Dynasty, born in Henei (now Qinyang, Henan). Along with Li He, he was much admired and "rediscovered" in the 20th century by young Chinese writers for the imagist quality of his poems. He is particularly fam... | 20,280 |
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Culturally, politically and economically the Tang was one of the great periods of Chinese history. The cosmopolitan capital of Chang'an was filled with traders from the Middle East and other parts of Asia where many Asian vassal states sent envoys to pay tribute. The empire covered a vast territory, the lar... | 20,281 |
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Tang court during and after the An Lushan Rebellion were allowed to surrender and given military governor posts even after the leaders of the rebellion were vanquished. Peace and stability over the entire area of Hebei was heavily bought by a compromise settlement. These provincial governors paid only lip s... | 20,282 |
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this loss of control over the provincial military leaders and other problems at the frontiers, the Tang court was internally plagued by the increasingly powerful eunuchs and the fierce Niu-Li factional strife.
The eunuchs first gained political influence as a group when Gao Lishi helped Emperor Xuanzong in... | 20,283 |
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the emperors had allowed the eunuchs to become fully entrenched both militarily and politically. After Xianzong, all Tang emperors (except Jingzong) were put on the throne by the eunuchs.
In 835, the infamous "Sweet Dew Incident" occurred during the reign of Emperor Wenzong. A palace coup designed by Li Xu... | 20,284 |
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the Emperor and the affairs of state.
Apart from the eunuchs, the Niu-Li factional strife was another destructive internal force haunting the Tang court. The Niu and Li factions were not organized political parties, but two groups of rival politicians, hostile toward each other as a result of some personal... | 20,285 |
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background between the two groups, one representing the traditional ruling class of North China, and the other, the newly risen class of scholar-officials who reached their positions through the civil service examinations. In any case, many intellectuals and high officials were involved in this struggle. Wh... | 20,286 |
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with the help of the military governors, precipitating the downfall of Tang. The forty-five years of Li-Shangyin's life covered the reign of six emperors. Among them, Xianzong and Jingzong were murdered by the eunuchs. Muzong, Wuzong and Xuanzong indulged in escapist practices, dying, in the case of Wuzong,... | 20,287 |
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"Jin Se" (錦瑟) (the title is only taken from the first two characters of the poem, since the poem is one of Li's "no title" poems), which consists of 56 characters and a string of images. His "no title" poems are regarded as "pure poetry" by some modern critics.
Although more famous for his sensuous poems, ... | 20,288 |
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of the Sun" from the band's second album "A Saucerful of Secrets".
Part of a poem by Li Shangyin is recited by a minor character in the Mortuary in the role-playing video game "".
More recently, Li Shangyin's poem, "When Will I Be Home?" is alluded to and quoted from by Hig, the protagonist of Peter Helle... | 20,289 |
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.
His name is mentioned and his poem is quoted in the Korean TV Series Gu-am Heo Jun, Episode 119.
# References.
- Chen, Bohai, "Li Shangyin". "Encyclopedia of China" (Chinese Literature Edition), 1st ed.
- Yu, Teresa Yee-Wah. 2011. "Li Shangyin : The Poetry of Allusion." Retrospective Theses and Disser... | 20,290 |
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Book of Judith
The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the Apocrypha. The book contains numerous historical anachronisms, which ... | 20,291 |
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Hebrew or composed in Greek. Details of vocabulary and phrasing point to a Greek text written in a language modeled on the Greek developed through translating the other books in the Septuagint.
The extant Hebrew language versions, whether identical to the Greek, or in the shorter Hebrew version, date to... | 20,292 |
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of that name, though unhistorical, has been sometimes explained either as a copyist's addition, or an arbitrary name assigned to the "ruler of Babylon".
## Canonicity.
### In Judaism.
Although it was likely written by a Jew during the Second Temple period, there is no evidence that the Book of Judith ... | 20,293 |
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was opposed), and perhaps the brash and seductive character of Judith herself.
However, after disappearing from circulation among Jews for over a millennium, references to the Book of Judith, and the figure of Judith herself, resurfaced in the religious literature of crypto-Jews who escaped capitulation... | 20,294 |
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on cheese before cutting off his head, may have formed the basis of the Jewish tradition to eat dairy products during Hanukkah.
In that respect, Medieval Jewry appears to have viewed Judith as the Hasmonean counterpart to Queen Esther, the heroine of the holiday of Purim. The textual reliability of the ... | 20,295 |
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canons, including the Bryennios List (1st/2nd century), that of Melito of Sardis (2nd century) and Origen (3rd century), do not include it. Jerome, when he produced his Latin translation, counted it among the apocrypha, (although he changed his mind and later quoted it as scripture, and said he merely ex... | 20,296 |
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been counted among the number of the Sacred Scriptures".
It was also accepted by the councils of Rome (382), Hippo (393), Carthage (397), Florence (1442) and eventually dogmatically defined as canonical by the Roman Catholic Church in 1546 in the Council of Trent. The Eastern Orthodox Church also accept... | 20,297 |
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by Protestants (though many Anglicans consider it to be either an apocryphal or deuterocanonical book), who accept as the Old Testament only those books that are found in the Jewish canon. Martin Luther viewed the book as an allegory, but listed it as the first of the eight writings in his Apocrypha.
# ... | 20,298 |
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access to his tent one night as he lies in a drunken stupor. She decapitates him, then takes his head back to her fearful countrymen. The Assyrians, having lost their leader, disperse, and Israel is saved. Though she is courted by many, Judith remains unmarried for the rest of her life.
## Literary stru... | 20,299 |
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