http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2012/usb0007wgq/#summary and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquakes_in_2012#September - Rank: 4th - Criteria for Ranking: 81 death - Date: September 7‚ 2012 - Location: Yiliang‚ Zhaotong‚ Yunnan Province‚ China - Type: Earthquake (Magnitude 5.6) - Description: The earthquake resulted in an estimated 81 deaths‚ about 821 injured; more than 6600 houses were flattened and thousands were damaged; about $552 million lost in the earthquake.
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The Rape of Nanking On December 13‚ 1937 in order to break the spirit of Chinese resistance‚ Japanese General Matsui Iwane ordered that the city of Nanking be destroyed. Much of the city was burned‚ and Japanese troops launched a campaign of atrocities against civilians. In what became known as the "Rape of Nanking‚" the Japanese butchered an estimated 150‚000 male "war prisoners‚" massacred an additional 50‚000 male civilians‚ and raped at least 20‚000 women and girls of all ages‚ many of whom
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The Mongols were a tribe of fighters who left behind a legacy of achievements. The Mongols were the descendants of the famed Empire Builder Ghengis Khan. They have played a more prominent role in world history than any other people of North or Middle Asia. They were able to create a world empire‚ with the help of Ghengis Kahn. Ghengis Kahn had a huge role making the Mongols a world empire. He was a Mongol chieftain who rose to power as kahn. Ghengis Kahn was able to unify
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which gets to be bitterer as the tea soaks. Contingent upon the sort‚ tea has a pH running from 4.0 to 6.0. Ginger tea and green tea are least in sharpness. Numerous espresso manufactures such as Heuvla and Puroast‚ offer low corrosive espresso. Yunnan tea has a low corrosive level‚ as do ginger and green teas. Every one of these items is accessible at supermarkets and on the
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Castration was typically carried out on the soon-to-be eunuch without his consent in order that he might perform a specific social function; this was common in many societies. The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 21st century BC.[1][2] Over the millennia since‚ they have performed a wide variety of functions in many different cultures: courtiers or equivalent domestics‚ treble singers‚ religious specialists‚ government officials
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pictographic writing system developed in mesoAmerica. The Dresden Codex is one of four surviving pre-Columbian Mayan manuscripts. The script‚ recently deciphered‚ uses symbols that stand for sounds and whole words. The Noso or Naxi live in Yunnan province‚ in China‚ and use a pictographic writing system as a mnemonic for priests. 19th c. The Egyptian Book of the Dead --- the hieroglyphs‚ which contain both semantic and phonetic information‚ read‚ “the great god‚ foremost of the west
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The Moso (or the Mosuo)‚ also known as the Na to themselves‚ are a small ethnic group‚ with population of around 40000‚ mainly living in Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces in China. It is interesting that the most distinct characteristic of the Moso is their unique matrilineal system‚ compared to other ethnic groups‚ dominated by patrilineality‚ in China. When men dominance and women subordination exist in Chinese patrilineal system‚ it is supposed that there would be an inversed gender inequality in matrilineal
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Way forward for collaboration between Indian & Chinese ICT companies – options This news excited me no ends….. Sobha Renaissance Information Technology (SRIT) of India has entered into a joint venture (JV) with Yunnan Sunpa Image Tel Tech Co. Ltd (Sunpa) in China to form a new entity called Sunpa Sobha Software (China) Ltd. Headquartered in Kunming‚ Sunpa Sobha Software (China) Ltd. will have operating branches in Beijing‚ Shanghai‚ Guangzhou‚ and Shenzhen. This is the first JV between India
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Identify and analyze FOUR (4) factors that are causing a slowdown in the economy of China. Eurozone debt crisis is caused by major European countries borrowing and spending more than they could afford‚ as a result other European countries will need to bail them out of the tune of billions of euro to prevent the crisis from worsening or spreading. Eurozone debt crisis has slowed down china’s economy by; as countries in Europe were experiencing economic slowdown due to the crisis‚ so were the
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Starbucks Corporation in China Company overview Starbucks Corporation is one of the most famous coffee retailers in the world. According to Starbucks Corporation (2012)‚ it runs over 55 countries in many regions including North America‚ Asia Pacific‚ Latin America and so forth. Starbucks headquarter is located in Seattle‚ Washington‚ USA. It has approximately 149‚000 employees. According to Starbucks Corporation (2012)‚ its company verified the income of 11‚700.4 million dollars during the
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