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Karen Kane started her career in fashion when she graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles at the age of 19. Her first job was as a pattern maker at a junior sportswear company. It was there that she met her husband and future business partner, Lonnie. [7]
Gerald Chan is the son of T.H. Chan, a Hong Kong real estate tycoon who founded the Hang Lung Group and was considered one of the major families in Hong Kong during the 20th century. He received a bachelor of science and a master of science from the University of California, Los Angeles .
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. In 1982, the park was recognized as China's first national forest park with an area of 4,810 ha (11,900 acres). [2] Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is part of a much larger 397.5 km 2 (153.5 sq mi) Wulingyuan Scenic Area. In 1992, Wulingyuan was officially recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [3]
Map including Zhangjiajie (labeled as TA-YUNG (YUNG-TING) 大庸) (AMS, 1953) The city itself was previously named Dayong (大庸) and has a recorded history dating back to 221 BC. [4] People lived here along both banks of the Lishui River (the mother river in Zhangjiajie), now within the boundaries of Zhangjiajie City, very early during the ...
UNESCO describes the South China Karst as "unrivalled in terms of the diversity of its karst features and landscapes". [1] The huge karst area of South China is about 550,000 km 2 in extent. The karst terrain displays a geomorphic transition as the terrain gradually descends about 2000 meters over 700 kilometers from the western Yunnan-Guizhou ...
Los Angeles has agreed to pay $300,000 to cover the legal fees of a local journalist and a technology watchdog group that had been sued by the city last year for publishing photos of names and ...
The park covers an area of 690 square kilometers (266 square miles). [2] Wulingyuan forms part of the Wuling Mountain Range. The scenic area consists of four national parks, which are the Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Suoxi Valley Nature Reserve, Tianzi Mountain Nature Reserve, and the recently added Yangjiajie Scenic Area. Overall there ...
Zhangjiajie Glass footpath is a skywalk bridge in Zhangjiajie, Hunan, above the Wulingyuan area. The bridge, built as an attraction for tourists, is glass-bottomed and is transparent. When it opened it was the longest and tallest glass bottomed bridge in the world.