The University of California at Berkeley’s (UC Berkeley’s) newly opened Energy Biosciences Building is the most energy efficient building on campus, thanks in part to window systems from Wausau Window and Wall Systems. The ...
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The fan, which is made of thin bamboo strips, thin silks, feathers, leaves of sunflowers, and papers, is a traditional Chinese handicraft used for cooling. Fans, for they can bring people cool, were called "Shelter from the Sun" in ancient ...
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Europe - Canadian rockers Billy Talent celebrated the release of a new album in September by jumping straight into an arena run of Germany and central Europe. Having tested the touring waters on the summer European Festivals, the production ...
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Cape Town Tragedy - A woman died, and 19 others were injured, after scaffolding collapsed outside a Linkin Park concert in Cape Town, South Africa. The temporary scaffolding outside Green Point stadium came down in high winds just before ...
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The shiny image of Zhang Ziyi in the movie the Banquet is impressive to many audiences. Her red and bright lips, short and dark eyebrows, and well decorated cheeks are the typical elements in the makeup popularized during the Tang Dynasty ...
The Most Gorgeous Miao Dress Woman's dresses from Shidong of Taijiang are the most gorgeous Miao dresses because of their intricate embroideries and silver adornments. Known as embroidered dresses, Miao dresses from Shidong have beautiful ...
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In ancient China, a bride was supposed to wear a red veil made of a piece of exquisite red silk cloth at her wedding. The veil was meant to be removed by the bridegroom in the bridal chamber. The earliest forms of women's veils ...
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The fruit pit carving is a miniature folk carving work out of peach stones, apricot stones, olive stones or walnuts, among which the peach-stone carving is most commonly seen. Fruit pits were useless, as we know, while ...
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Chinese opera originated in ancient song and dance. Around 800 BC, there emerged "(you)," who were kept by the nobles for their own entertainment. These people, usually males, good at singing, dancing and impersonations, developed into the ...
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When first created 3,000 years ago, Chinese fans were simply used to block the sun and keep cool. But over the years, they evolved into works of art, status symbols, props for theater and dance, romantic gifts, and memorials of the dead. ...
The dragon boat festival is a totem festival. Falling on the 5th of the fifth lunar month, it is close to the summer solstice. Pestilence, as a result of the heat and dampness, is at its worst, threatening lives of human community. Images ...
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Manchu hairstyle and headwear are unique, especially Manchu females' headwear. It is elegant and magnificent, natural and graceful. Before a Manchu woman grows up, she wears a single pigtail hanging behind; at the end of the ...
On the snowy Tibet plateau, traditional elements have been mingled with modern life -- youths dressed in the latest fashion dancing "Guozhuang," office-ladies playing conventional Tibetan music while driving to work and Tibetan girls ...
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Song-and-dance Duet, or "Song-and-dance Squad", is a genre of opera prevailing in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and northern regions of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Hebei Province. The repertoires are usually sung by one clown and one positive ...
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The Miao nationality mostly live in the border areas of the provinces of southwest China. They have their own language. In the areas of the Miao nationality, they take farming as the main and hunting as supplementary. Their cross-stitch ...
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