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- Air Quality Index [r]: A number used by government agencies to characterize the quality of the ambient air at a given location. [e]
- Amber Neben [r]: (1975 - ) An American cycle racer who has won several major international stage races and is a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic road cycling team. [e]
- Anshan [r]: The third largest prefecture level city in Liáoníng province of China. [e]
- CIA activities in the Middle East and South Asia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Calendar [r]: A method used for keeping time on a scale of years. [e]
- China, history [r]: covers the History of China from 2000 BC to the present. [e]
- China [r]: The most populous nation on Earth, third largest by area. [e]
- Coal mining [r]: A term that encompasses the various methods used to extract the carbon-containing rock called coal from the ground. [e]
- Coal [r]: A carbon-containing rock formed by the effect of bacteria, heat and pressure on the debris from the decay of ferns, vines, trees and other plants which flourished in swamps millions of years ago. [e]
- Country [r]: Nation, state, region, or territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture. [e]
- France [r]: Western European republic (population c. 64.1 million; capital Paris) extending across Europe from the English Channel in the north-west to the Mediterranean in the south-east; bounded by Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Spain; founding member of the European Union. Colonial power in Southeast Asia until 1954. [e]
- French fries [r]: Thin sticks of potato that have been deep-fried. [e]
- Genghis Khan [r]: (c. 1162-1227) the founder and most successful ruler of the Mongolian Empire, the largest contiguous land empire in history. [e]
- Great Wall of China [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gu Cheng [r]: (顾城; 1956-1993) Chinese modernist poet active in the "Misty Poets" movement; killed himself in an apparent murder-suicide in New Zealand. [e]
- Hadrian's Wall [r]: Ancient Roman wall, 118.3 km (73.5 mi) long, across northern England, built during the reign of the emperor Hadrian c. 122–126 and extended by Severus a century later, the wall marked the northern defensive boundary of Roman Britain. [e]
- Hutong [r]: Narrow twisting lanes, alleyways, and passages (hutong) formed by the outer walls of private residential compounds(siheyuan) of traditional Beijing, and the neighborhoods with these characteristics. [e]
- Imperial Palace, Beijing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Astronomical Union [r]: Internationally recognized authority for assigning designations to celestial bodies (stars, planets, asteroids, etc), headquartered in Paris, France. [e]
- Justine Rosenthal [r]: Editor of The National Interest; past research fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution; director of the Executive Office, Council on Foreign Relations; Luce Scholar and Lecturer, at the College of Foreign Affairs in Beijing [e]
- Liaoning [r]: A province in the North East of China. [e]
- Mandarin language [r]: (traditional Chinese 官話, simplified 官话; pinyin Guānhuà) Sino-Tibetan language, the standard form of which constitutes 'Standard Chinese'; world's largest language by speakers, with approximately 900,000,000 users. [e]
- National Interest (magazine) [r]: An online and quarterly print publication on international affairs, broadly from the perspective of neoconservatism [e]
- Olympic Games [r]: Quadrennial sporting extravaganzas involving athletes from around the world in both Summer and Winter sports competitions; begun in Athens in 1896. [e]
- Open Door policy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pancake [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh [r]: The husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. [e]
- Shang Dynasty [r]: The second historic Chinese dynasty (ca. 1600 BCE - ca. 1046 BCE), that ruled in "China proper", in the Yellow River valley. [e]
- Shenyang [r]: The largest city in Liaoning, a province in the northeast of the People's Republic of China. [e]
- Sports [r]: Activities that involve skill and physical exertion, and that are governed by a generally accepted set of rules and guidelines. [e]
- Town square [r]: Open area commonly found in the heart of a traditional town used for community gatherings. [e]
- U.S. intelligence and global health [r]: Analysis by the United States intelligence community, in conjunction with more general health organizations, relating to issues of human survival from health-related issues [e]
