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 Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:48 pm
ProphetSarcomeer ha ha... how ironic... im studying up on china for academic decathlon this year... any of these names sound familiar? mao zedong (this one should) Chiang Kai shek Hu yaobang Pu Yi the fists of rightous harmony YAY FOR COMMY CHINA! lol, Yeah Mao Zedong was the first chairman of The Peoples Republic of China, he wrote the Red book, otherwise known as the selected works of Mao Zedong.
Pu Yi was the last emperor of China in the beginning of the 20th century.
Fists of Rightous Harmony, basically a bunch of pyscho assassins who supported the Qing dynasty at then end of the 19th century, the ended up slaughtering Christian converts and missionaries. Oh and by the way there actual name was Righteous Harmony Society, but it got mistranslated and no one has bothered to globally correct the name.
As for the rest, no idea.
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:12 pm
yeah, the fists were also called the boxers. on thing i learned about them was that they belived that through certain rituals, they could call down spirit soldiers and block bullets... that didnt work out too well for them...
chiang kai shek was the first leader of the republic of china which was cast out of china proper because the lost the fight. he was the head of the GMD.. (guomin dang...)
hu yaobang was a member of the third generation of communist supporters. it was his death and funeral that caused a whole bunch of students to flock to tianenmen(sp) square and get pwned by the commies... who thought mistakenly that it was an uprising.
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:21 pm
Wow. Thats cool.
Thats another location for "When the time machine is here"
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:26 pm
Go China!! xd
They also invented:
- The abacus
- Earthquake predictor
- Paper
- Paper money
- Origami <-- most people think it's Japanese but it's actually Chinese
- Acupuncture
- CHOPSTICKS!
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:29 am
One fun fact about China is that in the 1970's I believe that the Rolling Stones were comming over to give a Wrold Tour and one of the ambassadors said to the lead singer (Mick Jagger) That some of his songs were a little too "Sexually Oriented" and should be changed before the concert date. To which Mick Jaggers made a remark about how many chinese were alive and "The cats out of the bag on that one"
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:29 pm
this is easy to figure out... but somewhat wierd.
at any given time, more people in china speak english than people in america and britain combined.
talk about wierd?
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:34 pm
ProphetSarcomeer yeah, the fists were also called the boxers. on thing i learned about them was that they belived that through certain rituals, they could call down spirit soldiers and block bullets... that didnt work out too well for them... chiang kai shek was the first leader of the republic of china which was cast out of china proper because the lost the fight. he was the head of the GMD.. (guomin dang...) hu yaobang was a member of the third generation of communist supporters. it was his death and funeral that caused a whole bunch of students to flock to tianenmen(sp) square and get pwned by the commies... who thought mistakenly that it was an uprising. Yeah, I knew that stuff about them.
didnt know that on Chiang Kai
Hu Yaobang, i heard about him and the students and of course who doesnt know about tianenamen square... to bad they got they didnt start an uprising, probably would've been a good thing.
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:07 pm
chaina makes everything even a 1000 yr ago
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:31 pm
Grenades...PRETTY GRENADES! Like fire, only more beautiful...KABOOM! Hehehehe. Boomboom.
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:31 am
Quote: No longer foreign, all Chinese churches are just that: indigenous Chinese churches, and thousands of Chinese, young and old, are turning to Christ every day. Oh no, not another great civilisation turning to Christ... Evangelism...The downfall of culture...
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:33 am
ProphetSarcomeer yeah, the fists were also called the boxers. on thing i learned about them was that they belived that through certain rituals, they could call down spirit soldiers and block bullets... that didnt work out too well for them... chiang kai shek was the first leader of the republic of china which was cast out of china proper because the lost the fight. he was the head of the GMD.. (guomin dang...) hu yaobang was a member of the third generation of communist supporters. it was his death and funeral that caused a whole bunch of students to flock to tianenmen(sp) square and get pwned by the commies... who thought mistakenly that it was an uprising. Actually it's Kuomintang.
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:15 pm
Quote: Actually it's Kuomintang. depends on if your using Wade- Giles or Pin Yin.... they are different romanizing systems... i happen to prefer pinyin, kuomintang is wade giles. chiang kai shek is wade giles. jiang jieshi is pinyin.
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:16 pm
Yeah, I'm doing an in depth (As in to the very core and then some) study of china in my decathalon class, yeah, it's nerdy as hell, but the names of some of their leaders keep me entertained enough to pay attention. I've learned more about the rhyme and meter of chinese poetry, music, history, art, good god...
But I never have learned about the grenades, that was somehow left out up till now.
Edit: Appears I'm not the only one on a decathalon team in this guild, hehe. I hope my team makes it to nationals, Hawaii beckons.
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:30 am
Quote: Appears I'm not the only one on a decathalon team in this guild, hehe. I hope my team makes it to nationals, Hawaii beckons. what state MAAAN! thats coolio! in any case... china is FUN!!!! though, good earth is kinda lame... i wanted to read art of war.....
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Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:08 pm
Dragon_Witch_Woman Blood`Eternity Grenades were invented in China over 1,000 years ago.
They are also responsable for toilet paper. Thank God for the Chinese xd
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