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12 hours ago · t. e. The Chinese Empire (or the Empire of China) [a] is a term referring to the domain ruled by the Emperor of China. The period when China was ruled by an emperor is known as Imperial China. It was also known as the Celestial Empire in reference to the status of the Emperor of China as the Son of Heaven in the Sinosphere.
12 hours ago · Mongolia. Mongolia [b] is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of 1,564,116 square kilometres (603,909 square miles), with a population of just 3.3 million, making it the world's most sparsely populated sovereign state. Mongolia is the world's largest landlocked country ...
12 hours ago · Kunming [a] is the capital and largest city of Yunnan province, China. [4] It is the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of the province as well as the seat of the provincial government. The city was of great significance during World War II as a Chinese military center, American air base, and transport terminus for the ...
12 hours ago · The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star that makes up about 99.86% of the mass of the Solar System. It has an absolute magnitude of +4.83, estimated to be brighter than about 85% of the stars in the Milky Way, most of which are red dwarfs. [32] [33] The Sun is a Population I, or heavy-element-rich, [b] star. [34]
12 hours ago · Futurology. Political history. ↓ Future. v. t. e. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers. They migrated out of Africa during the Last Ice Age and had populated most of the Earth by the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.
12 hours ago · In 2020, China carried out its first robotic sample return mission , bringing back 1,731 grams of lunar material to Earth. [247] The U.S. developed plans for returning to the Moon beginning in 2004, [248] and with the signing of the U.S.-led Artemis Accords in 2020, the Artemis program aims to return the astronauts to the Moon in the 2020s. [249]
12 hours ago · ABBA ( / ˈæbə / AB-ə, Swedish: [ˈâbːa]; formerly named Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid or Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida) are a Swedish pop supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names ...
