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On June 28, 1998, United Airlines Flight 863, a Boeing 747-400 flying United's regularly scheduled transpacific service from San Francisco International Airport to Sydney Airport was forced to shut down one of its right-wing engines and nearly collided with San Bruno Mountain while recovering from the engine failure.
Tang 唐 618–690, 705–907 (690–705: Wu Zhou) The empire in 661, when it reached its greatest extent Civil administration Military administration Briefly-controlled areas Capital Chang'an (618–904) Luoyang (904–907) Common languages Middle Chinese Religion Main religions: Chinese Buddhism Taoism Chinese folk religion Others: Nestorian Christianity Chinese Manichaeism Zoroastrianism ...
The Zizhi Tongjian, a work in chronicle format published a few decades after the New Book of Tang, is largely in agreement with the Books of Tang, [8] [9] but also reconstructs a more detailed timeline of the siege, according to which food supplies started to run out in July, four months before the fall of the city. At that time, only 1,600 ...
The Tang dynasty at its height in the 660s. The military history of the Tang dynasty encompasses the period of Chinese military activity from 618 to 907. The Tang dynasty and the preceding Sui dynasty share many similar trends and behaviors in terms of military tactics, strategy, and technology, so it can be viewed that the Tang continued the Sui tradition.
The ten circuits of the early Tang dynasty at its greatest extent (660 - 663 A.D.) Emperor Taizong (r. 626−649) set up 10 "circuits" (道, dào) in 627 as areas for imperial commissioners to monitor the operation of prefectures, rather than as a direct level of administration. In the early Tang these geopolitical entities were not based on ...
San Francisco Bay Discovery Site: 394: San Francisco Bay Discovery Site: Sweeney Ridge: Pacifica: Also on the NRHP list as NPS-68000022. On the Ohlone-Portolá Heritage Trail. San Mateo County's first sawmill - Charles Brown's sawmill: 478
San Mateo [a] (/ ˌ s æ n m ə ˈ t eɪ oʊ / ⓘ SAN mə-TAY-oh) is the most populous city in San Mateo County, California, United States, on the San Francisco Peninsula.About 20 miles (32 km) south of San Francisco, the city borders Burlingame to the north, Hillsborough to the west, San Francisco Bay and Foster City to the east and Belmont to the south.
The empire of the Tang dynasty (June 18, 618 – June 1, 907), successor of the Sui dynasty, was a cosmopolitan hegemon that ruled one of China's most expansive empires. [3] Raids by the nomadic Khitans and Turks challenged Tang rule, and Tang rulers responded by pursuing strategies of divide and conquer , proxy warfare , tributes , and marriages .