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The eight-legged essay (Chinese: 八股文; pinyin: bāgǔwén; lit. 'eight bone text') [1] was a style of essay in imperial examinations during the Ming and Qing dynasties in China. [1]
The solution to two of the riddles is a mythological being; eight describe man-made artefacts; and most of the others describe the natural world. [ 7 ] : 407 The order and to a lesser extent the content of the riddles differs dramatically between the medieval manuscripts of the saga and scholars have concluded that there is little chance of ...
It is a poem of complex and subtle artistic composition, its vividness and language has won it many superlatives, including one by the Tamil literature scholar Kamil Zvelebil, as "the best or one of the best of the lays of the [Sangam] bardic corpus". [4]
He suggests "Ten Lays" as the more apt title. [3] Five of these ten ancient poems are lyrical, narrative bardic guides (arruppatai) by which poets directed other bards to the patrons of arts such as kings and chieftains. [4] The others are guides to religious devotion (Murugan) and to major towns, sometimes mixed with akam- or puram-genre ...
The single exception was in Two Bridges at the end of the historic Lower East Side, on a block that once served as home to Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and has been a landing spot for ...
After nearly derailing a spending bill and forcing a government shutdown last month, President-elect Donald Trump continues to shake up legislative business on Capitol Hill, offering shifting ...
Southern Miss and Marshall coach Charles Huff, barring a last-minute change, are expected to finalize a deal Sunday to make him the new head coach, sources tell @YahooSports. Marshall, which has ...