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    Cai Lun (Chinese: 蔡伦; courtesy name: Jingzhong (敬仲); c. 50–62 – 121 CE), formerly romanized as Ts'ai Lun, was a Chinese eunuch court official of the Eastern...
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    Nansen. Cai Lun was adopted and named after Chinese inventor Cai Lun by the IAU in August, 2010. "Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Cai Lun on Moon"...
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    Han period (25–220 AD), traditionally attributed to the court official Cai Lun. This plant-puree conglomerate produced by pulp mills and paper mills was...
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    probably China, at least as early as 105 CE, by the Han court eunuch Cai Lun, although the earliest archaeological fragments of paper derive from the...
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    551–479 BC Philosopher 6 Paul the Apostle 5–67 AD Christian apostle 7 Cai Lun 50–121 AD Inventor of paper 8 Johannes Gutenberg c. 1400–1468 Inventor...
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  • years before Cai Lun's contribution and that maps from early 2nd century BCE were also made with paper. With this, it appears that what Cai Lun accomplished...
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    invention of paper is attributed to a eunuch of the imperial court called Cai Lun in 105 A.D. However, paper was not introduced to Europe for another thousand...
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    Biao Cai Lun, inventor of paper in the Han dynasty Cai Mao, man of the gentry who served under Han dynasty provincial governor Liu Biao, cousin of Cai He...
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    Papermaking has traditionally been traced to China about AD 105, when Cai Lun, an official attached to the imperial court during the Han dynasty (202...
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    China may date back to the 2nd century CE, when paper was invented by Cai Lun, a court official of the Eastern Han dynasty. Chinese paper cutting is...
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  • April 26 – Marcus Annius Verus, later Emperor Marcus Aurelius (d. 180) Cai Lun, Chinese inventor of paper and the papermaking process (b. AD 50) Deng...
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    Emperor Claudius and suspected of poisoning him. Cai Lun (c. 50–62–121): Former attribution to Lun as the inventor of paper has been rescinded following...
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    been found in abundance. Subsequently, the improvements made to paper by Cai Lun during the Han dynasty began to displace bamboo and wooden strips from...
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    made during this period, including the invention of paper by the eunuch Cai Lun in 105. One additional trend that started with Emperor He was the lack...
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    process using the bark of the mulberry to create paper is attributed to Cai Lun, but it may be older. Texts were reproduced by woodblock printing; the...
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    war. The practice continued into the Han Dynasty, with people such as Cai Lun who was enfeoffed as the lord of a small village, Longting [zh], for his...
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  • Han dynasty, 200 years before the nominal invention of papermaking by Cai Lun, who improved and standardized paper production using a range of inexpensive...
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    where paper was originally invented, likely by an imperial eunuch named Cai Lun in 105 CE. The invention of paper allowed for the later invention of woodblock...
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    scholar of paper history, Thomas Francis Carter, drew parallels between Cai Lun, the traditional inventor of paper during the Eastern Han dynasty, and...
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  • Asia Minor. According to Christian tradition, Martha travels to Avignon. Cai Lun, Chinese inventor and politician (d. 121) Ulpia Marciana, sister of Trajan...
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    during the Kushan period. It is now kept at Lahore Museum, Lahore. 105: Cai Lun of China invents paper. 125: Zhang Heng of China invents the world's first...
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  • writing. 16th century BCE – The Phoenicians develop an alphabet. 105 – Cai Lun invents paper. 7th century – Hindu-Malayan empires write legal documents...
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    paper products. Before the widely acknowledged invention of papermaking by Cai Lun in China around AD 105, paper-like writing materials such as papyrus and...
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  • The Last Message Waiter on Skates 1976 Challenge of the Masters Lung Gui cai Lun Wen Xu Lao Tzu Bao biao The Private Eyes Pighead 1977 Money Crazy Poison...
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    the government seat is Caizichi Subdistrict. Leiyang is the hometown of Cai Lun, the inventor of papermaking technology, one of the Four Great Inventions...
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    appeared during the Jin dynasty in 4th century AD after the Chinese official, Cai Lun invented paper in 105 AD. The oldest surviving paper cut out is a symmetrical...
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    Cai Qi (Chinese: 蔡奇; pinyin: Cài Qí; Wade–Giles: Ts'ai Ch'i; born December 5, 1955) is a Chinese politician, who is the current first-ranked secretary...
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    distinction between chronic maladies and acute illnesses is made by Thessalos. Cai Lun, Chinese inventor of paper and the papermaking process (d. 121) Abgar V...
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  • records, paper was invented by a man named Cai Lun during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 AD). After Cai Lun invented the paper, many people came to his...
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    it has been dated to 8 BCE. The traditional inventor attribution is of Cai Lun, an official attached to the Imperial court during the Han dynasty (202...
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