Shen of the Sea is a collection of short stories written by Arthur Bowie Chrisman. It was first published by Dutton in 1925, illustrated with more than...
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shapeshifting dragon or shellfish-type sea monster believed to create mirages. The Chinese classics use the word shèn to mean "a large shellfish" that was...
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Chinese polymath, scientist, and statesman of the Song dynasty (960–1279). Shen was a master in many fields of study including mathematics, optics, and...
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Tang dynasty, titled The Starry Night, The Starry Sea 2 (Chinese: 那片星空那片海2), aired on Hunan TV from 2 October to 31 October 2017. Shen Luo is an ordinary...
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Newbery Medal (redirect from List of Newbery Honor books)
division of the American Library Association (ALA), to the author of "the most distinguished contributions to American literature for children". The Newbery...
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1925 in literature (category Years of the 20th century in literature)
André Chamson – Roux le bandit Arthur Bowie Chrisman – Shen of the Sea Agatha Christie – The Secret of Chimneys Ivy Compton-Burnett – Pastors and Masters...
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but left at the end of his sophomore year. His collection of sixteen short stories, Shen of the Sea: A Book for Children (1925), received the Newbery Medal...
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spirit who takes the form of a winged bull or human-headed lion Shellycoat (English, Scottish and German, as schellenrocc) – Water spirit Shen (Chinese) –...
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Shen Gongbao (申公豹) is a major character featured within the famed classic Chinese novel Investiture of the Gods. Shen Gongbao is a disciple of Yuanshi...
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hermit attacks them, but is defeated. The hermit is revealed to be Erlang Shen. Leizhenji gives Erlang Shen the third of Jiang Ziya's gifts: his faithful dog...
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Zhou Shen (Chinese: 周深; pinyin: Zhōu Shēn; born (1992-09-29)29 September 1992), also known as Charlie Zhou, is a Chinese singer known for his ethereal...
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1926 in literature (category Years of the 20th century in literature)
John Wyclif: A Study of the English Medieval Church Newbery Medal for children's literature: Arthur Bowie Chrisman, Shen of the Sea Nobel Prize for Literature:...
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Commander of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) from 2017 to 2021. Shen was born in Nanhui, Shanghai in October 1956.[citation needed] Shen's military...
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The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by South China, in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula...
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The men's football tournament at the 2023 SEA Games was held in Cambodia. Ten Southeast Asian nations entered the men's tournament. The tournament was...
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Shen (Chinese: 神; pinyin: shén) is a Chinese word with senses of deity, god or spirit. The Japanese equivalent is shin, as in Shinto. This single Chinese...
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Smoky the Cowhorse is a novel by Will James that was the winner of the 1927 Newbery Medal. The story details the life of a horse in the western United...
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Shenshu and Yulü (redirect from Shen Shu and Yu Lü)
"Book of the Yellow Emperor", aka Huangdi Sijing. "Shen Tu" "Yu Lei" are the readings of the names of gods by Ptak. Zhan Guo Ce (戰國策; 'Strategies of the Warring...
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only the first 46 chapters out of 100. The book was also translated to Dutch as Feng Shen: De Verheffing tot Goden by Nio Joe Lan (Jakarta, 1940). The novel...
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(secondary coordinates) The Coral Sea (French: Mer de Corail) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified...
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Song dynasty (redirect from The Song Dynasty)
the open sea regardless of the weather. The magnetized compass needle – known in Chinese as the "south-pointing needle" – was first described by Shen...
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reptiles, and dragons (e.g., shen 蜃 "a sea-monster dragon" or jiao 蛟 "an aquatic dragon"). The earliest written form of teng 螣 is a (ca. 3rd century BCE)...
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Dantian (section Importance of the lower dantian)
medicine loosely translated as "elixir field", "sea of qi", or simply "energy center". Dantian are the "qi focus flow centers", important focal points...
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Shen Shou (Chinese: 沈壽; 1874–1921) was a Chinese embroiderer during the late Qing and early Republican period. She was pivotal in transforming embroidery...
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This is the discography of Chinese recording artist Zhou Shen (Chinese: 周深). Zhou's representative song, "Big Fish", won eight awards for him. According...
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Rush Hour 3 (redirect from Shy Shen)
traffic cop. Just before Han announces the whereabouts of Shy Shen, a semi-mythical individual of great importance to the Chinese mob, an assassin shoots him...
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The Bay of Lalzi (Albanian: Gjiri i Lalzit — Albanian pronunciation: [ˈɟiːɾi i ˈlalːzit], also Albanian: Gjiri i Shën Pjetrit) is a large bay of the Adriatic...
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Tales from Silver Lands (category Collections of fairy tales)
Charles Finger that won the Newbery Medal in 1925. The book is a collection of nineteen folktales of the native populations of Central and South America...
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