Lanterns (deng in Chinese) are a special handicraft of Chinese tradition. Fancy lanterns are widely used as decorations in the country during festivals and holidays, on weddings and other celebrations. On the whole, they consist ...
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Temple fairs have been a part of daily life in Beijing for hundreds of years becoming especially popular during the Qing dynasty. Scattered all over the city so residents could easily make their way to the nearest, some fairs were held as ...
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Lantern Festival, also called Shangyuan Festival, is celebrated on January 15 of Chinese lunar calendar. It is the first full moon night in the Chinese lunar year, symbolizing the coming back of the spring. Lantern Festival may be regarded ...
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Game of Guessing love relationship "Love Foretell" or "Rimengdao" in the Tibetan language is prevalent among Tibetan people living in Yunnan, where it is a unique way of showing love between young men and women. Meanwhile, it is also a ...
Among all the joyous festivals celebrated by the people of Hangzhou, the Lantern Festival may be the most pleasing visually as the lanterns and their reflections in water create a kaleidoscope of color. The Lantern Festival is celebrated ...
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Time to Change the LED? Laser-Guided Lightmeter Will Tell You In many of the nation's traffic lights, light-emitting diodes or LEDs with their brighter light and longer life have replaced standard lamps. But knowing when to replace the ...
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Windows Division President Steven Sinofsky helped introduce the Microsoft Surface tablet on Oct. 25. IDG News Service - Steven Sinofsky, the executive in charge of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system and the driving force behind its new ...
The campaign is called 'Little Taste Testers'. It is a Facebook game inviting consumers to have fun in guessing the foods and drinks children describe through their blind tasting. According to Feve, as products are packed in glass, they ...
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A new piece of equipment that can measure the intensity of LEDs has been developed by Missouri University of Science and Technology. The long-standing problem many cities have regarding their traffic light bulb maintenance and the ...
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In many of the nation's traffic lights, light-emitting diodes or LEDs with their brighter light and longer life have replaced standard bulbs. But knowing when to replace the signal heads has remained a guessing game, says Dr. Suzanna Long, ...
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It's a rare year that sees updates to both OS X and Windows,but 2012 marks such an occasion.About a month after Apple released OS X Mountain Lion and two weeks after Microsoft finalized Windows 8(not shipping until Oct.26 but available for ...
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There are many things we love about the internet:gossip on any subject from celebrity marriages to new versions of the iPhone,the ability to spy on your high school sweetheart via social media,and services that will deliver cannolis or ...
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Microsoft will introduce Office 2013, the likely official label for the next version of the company's money-making suite, on Monday, according to a report from USA Today. CEO Steve Ballmer will host a news conference July 16, said the ...
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Microsoft today patched 16 vulnerabilities, including one in Windows that's been exploited for weeks and two in Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) in the first-in-years back-to-back browser update. Of Tuesday's nine security updates, three were ...
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