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Noble House is an American action - drama television miniseries that was produced by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, and broadcast by NBC in four segments on February 21–24, 1988. Based on the 1981 novel of the same name by James Clavell, it features a large cast headlined by Pierce Brosnan as business tycoon Ian Dunross and was directed ...
This is a list of WBC Muaythai world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the World Boxing Council Muaythai (WBC Muaythai). The WBC, which is one of the four major governing bodies in professional boxing , started certifying their own Muay Thai world champions in 19 different weight classes in 2005.
Tai peoples are the populations who speak (or formerly spoke) the Tai languages. There are a total of about 93 million people of Tai ancestry worldwide, with the largest ethnic groups being Dai, Thai, Isan, Tai Yai (Shan), Tai Lai (Shanni), Lao, Tai Ahom, Tai Kassay, and some Northern Thai peoples. The Tai are scattered through much of South ...
Thailand is an emerging economy and is considered a newly industrialised country. Thailand had a 2017 GDP of US$1.236 trillion (on a purchasing power parity basis). [202] Thailand is the second largest economy in Southeast Asia after Indonesia.
Tai-Pan. (film) Tai-Pan is a 1986 adventure drama film directed by Daryl Duke, loosely based on James Clavell 's 1966 novel of the same name. While many of the same characters and plot twists are maintained, a few smaller occurrences are left out. Filmed under communist Chinese censorship, some portions of Clavell's story were considered too ...
Tai chi is the common Western name for the Chinese martial art called Taiji Quan. Initially developed for combat and self-defense [ 1 ], some of its iterations have since evolved into a sport, and forms of health-oriented exercise. The combative and sports-oriented forms of Taiji Quan are physically demanding, much like other martial arts.
Wong Doc-Fai. Doc-Fai Wong (Chinese: 黄德輝) is a master [1] of tai chi and the Hung Sing branch of Choy Li Fut kung fu. He was born in 1948 in the Guangdong province of China, specifically, the Wangshan village in the Doumen District of Zhuhai. In April 1960, he and his mother immigrated to San Francisco, California to be reunited with his ...
Taijijian (simplified Chinese: 太极剑; traditional Chinese: 太極劍; pinyin: tàijíjiàn; lit. ' taiji sword') is a straight two-edged sword used in the training of the Chinese martial art tai chi. The straight sword, sometimes with a tassel and sometimes not, is used for upper body conditioning and martial training in traditional tai chi ...