1924年,印度诗人泰戈尔来到中国时,就取了个汉名“竺震旦”。 Zhang Xinglang, a famous historian recorded in his book “A Compilation of the Historical Resources of Communication between China and the West” that China was...
On July 21, 356 B.C., a pyromaniac namedHerostratusburned the temple to the ground, hoping to achieve infamy. According to legend, Artemis couldn't save her burning temple because she was present at the birth ofAlexander the Great[source: Hillman]. The temple was later rebuilt, but we're...
The Denisovans are an extinct group of archaic humans named after the Denisovan Cave in Siberia where they were first discovered. Zhang Dongju, one of the researchers from Lanzhou University, said the Denisovans had contributed genetically to modern populations across Oceania, East Asia, South Asia ...
How was Lake Taupo named? How did the European Union start? Why is Iceland a big volcanic island? How many countries do the Andes mountains run through? Explore our homework questions and answers library Search Browse Browse by subject
But the way we use middle names today started in the Middle Ages when Europeans named their children with the given name first, baptismal (洗礼的) name second, and family name third. The tradition was spread to America as people started to go overseas. Today, some people don’t even have...
Beautiful as it was, the seafarers feared they wouldn’t escape this bug-blighted, skin-blistering island by the next major Christian festival. They named their godforsaken home Malapascua –‘bad Easter’ in Spanish. Today you can’t imagine having a bad anything here. Since local fish...
Born in Egypt around 100 AD, he was the first person to try to make a world map. With the help of math, Ptolemy marked around 10,000 locations from Britain to Asia and Africa. Perhaps the most commonly used world map is the M...
Early cultures used meteorites to craft weapons and jewelry long before anyone knew how to extract iron from ore.
The 15-year-old, who was named after Vancouver 2010 Olympic silver medallist Asada Mao, has recently defended her junior women's title at the Grand Prix Final 2023 in Beijing, where she finished in front of Shin. The Kyoto native is also a two-time national champion. ...
electricity use and government policy on economic growth in the South Asian countries by controlling the impact of capital stock, financial development, exports, and imports; the study includes the government policy variable in the electricity driven growth model, which was missing in the previous ...