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Upper Ten Thousand, or simply, The Upper Ten, is a 19th-century phrase referring to the wealthiest 10,000 residents of New York City. The phrase was coined in 1844 by American poet and author Nathaniel Parker Willis. [1] Soon, the term came to be used to describe the upper circles not only of New York, but also those of other major cities. [2]
Datong coal mine pit of ten thousand people) is a mass grave from the time of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It is located in a former coal mine in the city of Datong in the province of Shanxi. [1] According to historian Li Jinwen, more than 155,000 Chinese laborers are buried in unused coal mines around Datong. [2]
The Haus des Meeres houses over ten thousand aquatic beings on an area of around 4,000 square meters (43,000 sq ft) inside a tall concrete flak tower built during World War II. [3] In 2012 the Haus des Meeres attracted a record high of 650,000 visitors. [ 2 ]
It is located in the southwestern corner of downtown Nanjing known as Jiangdongmen (江东门), near a site where thousands of bodies were buried, called a "pit of ten thousand people" (simplified Chinese: 万人坑; traditional Chinese: 萬人坑; pinyin: wàn rén kēng).
Lucian wrote about the "Seres" (a Chinese people), claiming they lived for over 300 years. Zuo Ci who lived during the Three Kingdoms Period was said to have lived for 300 years. In Chinese legend, Peng Zu was believed to have lived for over 800 years [ 51 ] during the Yin Dynasty (殷朝, 16th to 11th centuries BC).
Year 154 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Lateranus (or, less frequently, year 907 Ab urbe condita ).
Names of numbers above a trillion are rarely used in practice; such large numbers have practical usage primarily in the scientific domain, where powers of ten are expressed as 10 with a numeric superscript. However, these somewhat rare names are considered acceptable for approximate statements.
'[May] my Emperor [live and reign for] ten thousand years', 'ten thousand years', 'ten thousand of ten thousand years'). The foregoing phrase is best known to modern Chinese through televised films, but is not historically accurate; in the Ming dynasty , the only occasion during which 萬歲 is used is the great court, which was held one to ...