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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 ...
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 ...
Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located on the west coast of the island of Hawaiʻi in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The historical park preserves the site where, up until the early 19th century, Hawaiians who broke a kapu (one of the ancient laws) could avoid certain death by fleeing to ...
28. South Point Complex. South Point Complex. More images. December 29, 1962(#66000291) Nāʻālehu 18°54′57″N155°40′37″W / 18.9158°N 155.6769°W / 18.9158; -155.6769 (South Point Complex) Hawaiʻi. Site of one of the earliest Hawaiian settlements, this is the southernmost point in the United States. 29.
Added to NRHP. July 2, 1973 [ 1] Lapakahi State Historical Park is a large area of ruins from an Ancient Hawaiian fishing village in the North Kohala District on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi. [ 2][ 3] Offshore is the Lapakahi Marine Life Conservation District . The name lapa kahi means "single ridge" in the Hawaiian Language, and applied to the ...
Kaniakapupu. Kaniakapūpū ("the singing of the land shells"), known formerly as Luakaha ("place of relaxation"), is the ruins of the former summer palace of King Kamehameha III and Queen Kalama on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. Built in the 1840s, and situated in the cool uplands of the Nuʻuanu Valley, it served as the king and queen's summer ...
Xiyang Lou. Coordinates: 40°0′44.28″N 116°18′23.76″E. Map of the Xiyang Lou. Haiyantang. Xiyang Lou (Chinese: 西 洋 楼; pinyin: Xīyáng Lóu; lit. 'Western mansion (s)'), are ruins of 18th-century European-style imperial buildings on the grounds of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, China. They are located in the northern part of ...
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