square miles, an area about the size of Africa. Many people were slaughtered in the course of Genghis Khan’s invasions, but he also granted religious freedom to his subjects, abolished torture, encouraged trade and created the first international postal system. Genghis Khan died in 1227 during a military campaign against the Chinese kingdom of Xi Xia. His final resting place remains unknown. Temujin, later Genghis Khan, was born around 1162 near the border between modern Mongolia and Siberia. Legend
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21 strings. Guzheng are commonly about 1.6 metres in length. The guzheng is the modern westernised descendant of an ancient traditional Chinese musical instrument which was the ancestor of the Japanese koto, the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum, and the Vietnamese đàn tranh. Koto The koto is a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument which shares a common ancestor with the modern Chinese guzheng. It is the national instrument of Japan and typically about 1.8 metres in length.Koto are commonly
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providing extended nonrefrigerated shelf life of up to nine months and simplifying shipping and storage for the producer and consumer. 16 THE PROMISE OF PRIVATE EQUIT Y BACKGROUND Mengniu is a manufacturer of milk products based in Inner Mongolia, famous for its grasslands and one of the traditional dairy regions of China. Mengniu was privately founded in 1999 by a management team with long experience in one of Inner Mongolia’s state-owned milk product companies,
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Hmong culture is a combination of Chinese, Vietnamese, Laos, and Thai, making them very unique in the basics of culture, where they live, and their global landscape. Hmong people are very unique in a few ways and are not well-known as an Asian culture if you were to ask someone. Although they are not a country, Hmong people have lots of pride in their culture and ancestors. From the fancy traditional clothes to living in the mountains between countries and being separated from China and Vietnam
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IS FO TR R IB L U IM TI IT O E N D O N LY D Choosing the Channels of Communication A Review of Media Resources for 11 Countries in the Western Pacific Region This document is part of a continuing project of the Tobacco Free-Initiative and the Health Promotion Unit, World Health Organization, Western Pacific Regional Office. Tobacco-Free Initiative & Health Promotion Unit World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific P Box 2932, 1000 Manila, Philippines .O. Tel: (632)
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repaired. Some of the ships were the USS Arizona, the USS Oklahoma, and the USS Utah. Sunday, December 7 - Islands of Hawaii, near Oahu - The Japanese attack force under the command of Admiral Nagumo, consisting of six carriers with 423 planes, is about to attack. At 6 a.m., the first attack wave of 183 Japanese planes takes off from the carriers located 230 miles north of Oahu and heads for the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl
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have studied earlier in the course. The Chinese creation myth starts off with a huge primordial egg containing Pan Gu, the offspring of Yin and Yang. This egg is also seen in both the Vedic Hymns of India as well as the old myths of Tibet and Mongolia. From there Pan Gu grows for eighteen thousand years until the egg splits into the earth and the sky. This splitting and separation of earth and sky is seen in practically every myth studied so far. After another eighteen thousand years has passed
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Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index 2012 TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL the global coalition against corruption Contents Introduction About the index Corruption Perceptions Index 2012 1 2 4 Transparency International seeks to provide reliable quantitative diagnostic tools regarding levels of corruption, both at the global and local levels. The Corruption Perceptions Index is one of Transparency International’s indices sponsored by Ernst & Young. 176 countries, 176 scores
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Constitution of Mongolia, Civil Code, this Law and other legislative acts and regulations enacted in conformity with them. 2. If the provisions of any international treaties, to which Mongolia is a party, differ from those in this law, the former shall prevail. Article 3. Scope of the Law 1. This law shall apply to protect the rights of the child from birth until 18 years of age. 2. This law shall also apply to the children of foreign people and stateless residing within Mongolia. Article
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with difficult circumstances of the wildlife issues. Thus called he learned the techniques of Wildlife management issues. After completion of college, he got a direct contract with Snow Leopard Conservancy (SLC) to work at the South Gobi region of Mongolia to research the behavior of Snow Leopard. Rodney Jackson, the leading Biologist and the director of Snow Leopard Conservancy (SLC) who gained the experience on knowing the high mountain habitat assists Himal to work with the local community and
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