A Thangka is a painted or embroidered banner which was hung in a monastery or a family altar and carried by lamas in ceremonial processions. In Tibetan the word 'than' means flat and the suffix 'ka' stands for painting. The Thangka is thus ...
In Chinese, 'Yugur' means 'wealth and solidity'. With a population of 13,719 as at the 2000 census, approximately 90 percent of the Yugur people live in the four areas of Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, and the rest in the Yugur village of ...
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The ancestors of the Xibe ethnic group lived in the Hulunbuir grassland and the Nenjiang river area (within today's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region). In mid-18th century, they moved westward to Qapqal (within today's Xinjiang Uygur ...
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Living in the vast Inner Mongolia, the Mongolians have various wedding ceremonies of which Ordos wedding ceremony is the most wonderful. Ordos wedding ceremony has been passed down for more than 700 years and still keeps an ancient style ...
Hermès French luxury house joins Chanel,Givenchy,Christian Lacroix,Ungaro,Lanvin and Adeline Andréin creating a heart stamp for La Poste,France's national postal service.The heart edition of stamps is issued each year in ...
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With a population of 634,912 recorded in the 2000 census, the Lisu ethnic minority mainly inhabit in the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, and the few in other cities within Yunnan and Sichuang. According to their clan ...
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As with any home improvement it's important to plan before making any expensive purchases.In the case of a shower enclosure you need to ask yourself; How many walls are available to locate an enclosure? What bathroom room height do you ...
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The water-releasing ceremony on the Qingming Festival is a folk custom in Dujiangyan City where the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, a UNESCO world cultural heritage site, is located. On Qingming Festival (one of the 24 Chinese solar terms) ...
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Basically a shower enclosure is a door with or without some sides that sits on a shower tray or if you're in a wet room that sits directly onto the floor.We are not dealing with shower trays here so whether its on a tray or direct to floor ...
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Basically a shower enclosure is a door with or without some sides that sits on a shower tray or if you’re in a wet room that sits directly onto the floor. We are not dealing with shower trays here so whether its on a tray or direct to ...
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As with any home improvement it’s important to plan before making any expensive purchases. In the case of a shower enclosure you need to ask yourself; How many walls are available to locate an enclosure? What bathroom room height do ...
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Titan Machinery Inc. (NAS: TITN) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Falcon Power Inc., which consists of two Case construction equipment dealerships located in Phoenix and Flagstaff, Arizona. Falcon Power's two ...
Titan Machinery Inc. (NAS: TITN) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Falcon Power Inc., which consists of two Case construction equipment dealerships located in Phoenix and Flagstaff, Arizona. Falcon Power's two ...
Advanced RenewableEnergy Company LLC (ARC Energy) of Nashua, NH, USA, a provider of c-axis sapphire growth technologies and turnkey solutions for the LED solid-state lighting market, has announced 'CHES Foundations Series Part 2: Sapphire ...
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With summer taking its final bow for the year,it's time to evaluate the fashion choices for the coming cooler months as ICONIC gets wardrobe ready with a bang on trend collection.While SS'12 was all about dusky pastels,tribal ...
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