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  2. Chinese bronze inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    mǎ horse 虎 hǔ tiger 豕 shǐ swine 犬 quǎn dog 象 xiàng elephant 龜 guī turtle 為 wèi to lead 疾 jí illness 馬 虎 豕 犬 象 龜 為 疾 mǎ hǔ shǐ quǎn xiàng guī wèi jí horse tiger swine dog elephant turtle {to lead} illness Of the 12,000 inscribed bronzes extant today, roughly 3,000 date from the Shang dynasty, 6,000 from the Zhou dynasty, and the final 3,000 from the ...

  3. Western Zhou - Wikipedia

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    The Western Zhou (Chinese: 西周; pinyin: Xīzhōu; c. 1046 [1] – 771 BC) was a period of Chinese history corresponding roughly to the first half of the Zhou dynasty. It began when King Wu of Zhou overthrew the Shang dynasty at the Battle of Muye and ended in 771 BC when Quanrong pastoralists sacked the Zhou capital at Haojing and killed ...

  4. Chinese ritual bronzes - Wikipedia

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    These new types, which were grouped in large sets, possibly corresponding to a change in Zhou ritual practice. [39] [43] Animal decorations were replaced by geometric forms such as ribbing and bands of lozenge shapes. Conversely, legs and handles became larger and more elaborate, and were often topped with animal heads. [44] Western Zhou guǐ ...

  5. National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis ...

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    The city of St. Louis is an independent city separate from St. Louis County, so properties and districts in the city of St. Louis are listed here. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 17, 2025. [2]

  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis ...

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    July 3, 2014 (4947 W. Florissant Ave. 18: Chuck Berry House: Chuck Berry House: December 12, 2008 (3137 Whittier St. 19: Biddle Street Market: Biddle Street Market

  7. National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Louis ...

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    This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places within the city limits of St. Louis, Missouri, south of Interstate 64 and west of Downtown St. Louis. For listings in Downtown St. Louis, see National Register of Historic Places listings in Downtown and Downtown West St. Louis.

  8. National Register of Historic Places listings in Downtown and ...

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    formerly the St. Louis Mart and Terminal Warehouse 106: St. Louis News Company: St. Louis News Company: September 16, 2010 : 1008–1010 Locust St. 107: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Building: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Building

  9. Zhou dynasty nobility - Wikipedia

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    The Zhou dynasty grew out of a predynastic polity with its own existing power structure, primarily organized as a set of culturally affiliated kinship groups. The defining characteristics of a noble were their ancestral temple surname (姓; xíng), their lineage line within that ancestral surname, and seniority within that lineage line.