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  2. File:N1529189.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Original file (1,275 × 1,650 pixels, file size: 436 KB, MIME type: application/pdf, 35 pages) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

  3. Chinatown, Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1980s, the program was expanded following an effort by urban planner Jerry S. Y. Cheng and Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA) president Li Boli. The New York City Department of Transportation commissioned a study in 1985 to identify places for new signs, but most records have been lost or destroyed.

  4. Four occupations - Wikipedia

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    A painting of a gentry scholar with two courtesans, by Tang Yin, c. 1500. The four occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín), [1] [2] was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the ...

  5. History of Sega - Wikipedia

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    Populating them were a number of interactive "mid-size" attractions that had been developed in-house, such as the VR-1 virtual reality motion simulator made in conjunction with Virtuality Group. [ 225 ] [ 226 ] Sega intended to create 100 "ATP" venues across the world by the start of the 2000s, [ 48 ] however the only overseas locations to ...

  6. Cretaceous - Wikipedia

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    The Cretaceous (IPA: / k r ɪ ˈ t eɪ ʃ ə s / krih-TAY-shəss) [2] is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest.

  7. Louvre - Wikipedia

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    As the Louvre became a point of interest in the book The Da Vinci Code and the 2006 film based on the book, the museum earned $2.5 million by allowing filming in its galleries. [ 120 ] [ 121 ] In 2008, the French government provided $180 million of the Louvre's yearly $350 million budget; the remainder came from private contributions and ticket ...

  8. Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia

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    US Ambassador to Indonesia Sung Kim accompanied by local officials at the Presidential Palace wearing face masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic. During the COVID-19 pandemic, face masks or coverings, including N95, FFP2, surgical, and cloth masks, have been employed as public and personal health control measures against the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

  9. Chinese sun and moon mirrors - Wikipedia

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    There are numerous Chinese names for the fire-producing "sun-mirror" and water-producing "moon-mirror". These two bronze implements are literary metaphors for yin and yang, associating the "yang-mirror" yangsui with the Sun (a.k.a. tàiyáng 太陽 "great yang"), fire, dry, and round, and the "yin-mirror" fangshu with the Moon (tàiyīn 太陰 "great yin"), water, wet, and square.