(Encyclopedia) Chiang Kai-shekChiang Kai-shekjyäng kī-shĕk, jyäng [key], 1887–1975, Chinese Nationalist leader. He was also called Chiang Chung-cheng.
After completing military training with the…
The 2006 Academy Awards were presented February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre.
Best Picture Babel The Departed Letters from Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine The Queen…
(Encyclopedia) magic, in entertainment, the seeming manipulation and supernatural control of the natural world for the amusement and amazement of an audience. Entertainment magic can be divided into…
(Encyclopedia) smoking, inhalation and exhalation of the fumes of burning tobacco in cigars and cigarettes and pipes; in the 21st cent., vaping, the similar use of e-cigarettes, also has become…
(Encyclopedia) Chinese literature, the literature of ancient and modern China.
Fiction during the first years after the 1949 Communist revolution depicted the great social transformations taking…
U.S. Department of State Background Note Index: People History Administration Political Conditions Economy Defense Foreign Relations U.S.-Taiwan Relations PEOPLETaiwan has a population of 22.9…
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KoreaKoreakôrēˈə, kə– [key], Korean Hanguk or Choson, region and historic country (85,049 sq mi/220,277 sq km), E Asia. A peninsula, 600 mi (966 km) long, Korea separates the…
(Encyclopedia) Nobel Prizes
Year
Peace
Chemistry
Physics
Physiology or Medicine
Literature
1901
J. H. Dunant
Frédéric Passy
J. H. van't Hoff
W. C. Roentgen
E. A. von Behring
R. F. A. Sully-…
