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Jiaobei. Moon blocks or jiaobei (also written as jiao bei etc. variants; Chinese: 筊杯 or 珓杯; pinyin: jiǎo bēi; Jyutping: gaau2 bui1 ), also poe (from Chinese: 桮; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: poe; as used in the term " poe divination "), are wooden divination tools originating from China, which are used in pairs and thrown to seek divine guidance ...
Animal Farm. Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive ...
- George Orwell
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Chinese fortune telling. "Li the half wizard" is telling fortune for a young man. The fortune teller is counting a woman, in the late 19th century. Chinese fortune telling, better known as Suan ming ( Chinese: 算命; pinyin: Suànmìng; lit. 'fate calculating') has utilized many varying divination techniques throughout the dynastic periods.
Features The mass of the James Webb Space Telescope is about half that of the Hubble Space Telescope.Webb has a 6.5 m (21 ft)-diameter gold-coated beryllium primary mirror made up of 18 separate hexagonal mirrors. The mirror has a polished area of 26.3 m 2 (283 sq ft), of which 0.9 m 2 (9.7 sq ft) is obscured by the secondary support struts, giving a total collecting area of 25.4 m 2 (273 sq ft).
Signature. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, KG ( / ˈvɪlərz / VIL-ərz; 28 August 1592 – 23 August 1628), [1] [2] was an English courtier, statesman, and patron of the arts. He was a favourite and self-described "lover" of King James VI and I. [3] [4] Buckingham remained at the height of royal favour for the first three years of the ...
The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean. The Maldives is named after the main island and capital, Malé.The Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India, about 750 kilometres (470 miles; 400 nautical miles) from the Asian continent's mainland.
Mao Zedong [a] (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976) was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He led the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976, while also serving as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party ...
