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Arts & music · Developing

Wu-style tai chi fast form

Wu-style tai chi fast form is a suite of fast forms publicized in Wu-style T'ai chi Fast Form. Empty hand or fist form list published in Ma Yueliang's, Wu Yinghua's, and Shi Mei Lin's Wu-style T'ai chi Fast Form. (Note:

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Everyday life · Developing

Sho shogi

Shō shōgi (小将棋 'small chess') is a 16th-century form of shogi (Japanese chess), and the immediate predecessor of the modern game. It is played on a 9×9 board with the same setup as in modern shogi, except that an extra p

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Ideas & learning · Developing

Proof that pi is irrational

In the 1760s, Johann Heinrich Lambert was the first to prove that the number is irrational, meaning it cannot be expressed as a fraction a/b, where a and b are both integers. In the 19th century, Charles Hermite found a

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Places & the world · Developing

Special routes of U.S. Route 58

Eighteen special routes of U.S. Route 58 currently exist in Virginia. In order from west to east they are as follows: U.S. Route 58 Business (US 58 Bus.) is a business loop of US 58 serving the communities of Ewing and R

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People & society · Developing

Semna Despatches

The Semna Despatches are a group of papyri that deals with observations of people in and around the forts of the Semna gorge. The fortresses were positioned at Semna because of the expansion of Egypt into Lower Nubia by

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Language & communication · Developing

Bombardment of Mailly-le-Camp

The Bombardment of Mailly-le-Camp was an RAF raid against a German panzer training center located in northern France undertaken during the night of 3/4 May 1944. The mission was a part of the "softening up" campaign Bomb

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Everyday life · Developing

The Princess from the Egg (Polish folktale)

The Princess from the Egg (Polish: Królówna z jajka) is a Polish folktale. The tale is a local form of tale type ATU 408, "The Love for Three Oranges", of the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index. As with The Three O

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Places & the world · Developing

Mao Sui

Mao Sui (fl. 3rd century BC), was born in the Zhao state (current Hebei province) during the Warring States period. He was a retainer of Lord Pingyuan, namely Zhao Sheng. Mao lived in Zhao for three years but success elu

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