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  2. Old Summer Palace - Wikipedia

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    The Old Summer Palace, also known as Yuanmingyuan (traditional Chinese: 圓明園; simplified Chinese: 圆明园; pinyin: Yuánmíng Yuán; lit. 'Gardens of Perfect Brightness') or Yuanmingyuan Park, [1] originally called the Imperial Gardens (traditional Chinese: 御園; simplified Chinese: 御园; pinyin: Yù Yuán), and sometimes called the Winter Palace, [2] [3] was a complex of palaces ...

  3. Forty Scenes of the Yuanmingyuan - Wikipedia

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    The painting series Forty Scenes of the Yuanmingyuan depicts historically recognized vistas in the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, China. In 1744, the Qianlong Emperor commissioned a set of forty paintings from two court artists, Shen Yuan and Tangdai, and a calligrapher, Wang Youdun. [1] The paintings, currently in the collection of ...

  4. School uniforms in Japan - Wikipedia

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    An ōendan cheerleader in gakuran. A cosplayer in gakuran. The gakuran (学ラン), also called the tsume-eri (詰襟), is the uniform for many middle-school and high-school boys in Japan. The colour is normally black, but some schools use navy blue. The top has a standing collar buttoning down from top-to-bottom.

  5. Seasonal wardrobe change in Japan - Wikipedia

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    In a narrow sense, seasonal wardrobe change refers to swapping student or company uniforms (e.g., summer or winter clothes), matching the change in seasons. In most regions in Japan, everyone would carry out this change all at once on July 1 and October 1 each year. Usually, people take about two weeks to a month as a transition period to ...

  6. List of royal palaces - Wikipedia

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    Adile Sultan Palace is the former royal residence of Ottoman princess Adile Sultan. It was donated to the state by Adile Sultan to be used as a school building for the Kandilli Anatolian High School for Girls and is today a cultural center. United Kingdom: Buckingham Palace: London: St James's Palace: Kensington Palace: Richmond Palace: Palace ...

  7. Red Guards - Wikipedia

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    A high school Red Guard leader, Song Binbin, placed a red armband inscribed with the characters for "Red Guard" on the chairman, who stood for six hours. [1] The 8-18 Rally, as it was known, was the first of eight receptions the Chairman gave to Red Guards in Tiananmen in the fall of 1966.

  8. ‘Looty’: How a dog stolen from China sparked a British luxury ...

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    In the Edwardian era of the early 1900s, one lord is said to have spent “as much as £3,000” — more than £300,000 ($365,000) in today’s money — for “a few” dogs, according to the ...

  9. School uniforms by country - Wikipedia

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    School children wearing uniforms in Cambodia. In Cambodia, students of all ages (pre-school to college) wear school uniforms. [ 52 ] The uniforms differ by school and age level. Generally, boys wear a white dress shirt and a pair of shorts. The colour and length of the shorts varies at each school.