enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Ming (clam) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_(clam)

    Ming (c. 1498 or 1499–2006), also known as Hafrún, was an ocean quahog clam (Arctica islandica, family Arcticidae) that was dredged off the coast of Iceland in 2006 and whose age was calculated by counting annual growth lines in the shell. Ming was the oldest individual (non-clonal) animal ever discovered whose age could be precisely determined.

  3. Hongzhi Emperor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongzhi_Emperor

    In contrast to almost all of his predecessors, who had many consorts and concubines and fathered many children, the Hongzhi Emperor had only one empress, Empress Zhang. His empress gave birth to two sons, but the second one died at a young age. The Hongzhi Emperor showed a lot of love to his first son, which he himself lacked in his childhood.

  4. Killing of Ashley Zhao - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ashley_Zhao

    Her death sparked an investigation led by the local police department in cooperation with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. [ 1 ] Ming Ming Chen (born 1987/1988), [ 2 ] Ashley's mother, was charged with her death and convicted of involuntary manslaughter . [ 3 ]

  5. Empress Myeongseong - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Myeongseong

    Her first pregnancy came five years after marriage, at the age of 21, and ended in despair and humiliation when her infant son died shortly after birth. She lost all her children apart from Yi Cheok, born when she was 24. [86] His older sister was born when the queen consort was 23, but died and with a birth of two sons followed Yi Cheok's birth.

  6. What is the true story behind 'Sight'? Movie details life of ...

    www.aol.com/news/true-story-behind-sight-movie...

    Dr. Ming Wang grew up wanting to be a doctor — and that’s because he comes from a long line of medical professionals. “Five generations (of doctors) since the Qing Dynasty,” Wang tells ...

  7. Longqing Emperor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longqing_Emperor

    Zhu Zaiji, the future Longqing Emperor, was born on 4 March 1537 to the Jiajing Emperor and a concubine surnamed Du. He was the emperor's third son; the eldest son had died in infancy before Zhu Zaiji's birth, and his second son, Zhu Zairui, was six months older than him.

  8. Architect I.M. Pei dies at age 102 - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/2019-05-16-architect-im-pei...

    Pei, a slight man who wore round, owl-ish glasses, became a U.S. citizen in 1955. He was married to Eileen Loo from 1942 until her death in 2014. They had four children, two of whom became architects.

  9. Four Major Cases of the early Ming dynasty - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Major_Cases_of_the...

    The Four Major Cases of the early Ming dynasty (Chinese: 明初四大案; pinyin: Míngchū Sìdà'àn / Chinese: 明初四大獄; pinyin: Míngchū Sìdàyù) refer to the following mass executions and persecutions perpetrated by the Hongwu Emperor (Zhu Yuanzhang) at the start of the Ming dynasty: