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It was the subject of the world's first webcam, created by Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky in 1991. To save people working in the building the disappointment of finding the coffee machine empty after making the trip to the room, a camera was set up providing a live picture of the coffee pot to all desktop computers on the office network.
Yijing (635–713 CE), formerly romanized as I-ching or I-tsing, [1] born Zhang Wenming, was a Tang-era Chinese Buddhist monk famed as a traveller and translator. His account of his travels are an important source for the history of the medieval kingdoms along the sea route between China and India, especially Srivijaya in Indonesia .
Music of Changes is a piece for solo piano by John Cage.Composed in 1951 for pianist and friend David Tudor, it is a ground-breaking piece of indeterminate music.The process of composition involved applying decisions made using the I Ching, a Chinese classic text that is commonly used as a divination system.
Baguazhang (Chinese: 八卦掌; pinyin: bā guà zhǎng; Wade–Giles: pa-kua chang) is one of the three main Chinese martial arts of the Wudang school, the other two being tai chi and xingyiquan.
Chengcing Lake (Chinese: 澄清湖; Hanyu Pinyin: Chéngqīng Hú; Tongyong Pinyin: Chéngcing Hú; Wade–Giles: Ch'eng 2-ch'ing 1 Hu 2), also known as the Cheng Ching Lake, Dabei Lake (大貝湖), or Toapi Lake (Chinese: 大埤湖; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tōa-pi-ô͘) in Taiwanese, is an artificial lake located in Niaosong, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Karl-Otto Koch (German:; 2 August 1897 – 5 April 1945) was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany who was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen.
In pursuit of the latter objective, Lieutenant General William Howe embarked an army numbering about 18,000 (plus about 5,000 camp followers) onto transports in late July 1777, and sailed from New York City to the Chesapeake Bay. [9] [10] The Continental Army of Major General George Washington remained near New York until Howe's objective ...
Cooch Behar is the district headquarters and the largest town of Cooch Behar district in the Indian state of West Bengal.The name Cooch Behar is derived from two words—Cooch, a corrupted form of the word Koch, the name of the Koch tribes, and the word behar is derived from vihara meaning land, Koch Behar means land of the Koches.