Pillars of ashoka The pillars of Ashoka are a series of columns dispersed throughout the northern Indian subcontinent‚ erected or at least inscribed with edicts by the Mauryan king Ashoka during his reign in the 3rd century BC. Originally‚ there must have been many pillars but only nineteen survive with inscriptions‚ and only six with animal capitals‚ which were a target for Muslim iconoclasm. Many are preserved in a fragmentary state. Averaging between 40 to 50 feet (12 to 15 m) in height‚ and weighing
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hardships they are dealing with as each individual youngster has different problems. Recently‚ during a school discovery week expedition‚ I traveled to Thailand with a senior school group. We visited a public school in the countryside out of Chiang Mai‚ where we acted as both temporary English tutors and HK ambassadors. From this incident‚ I have discovered the usefulness of using the body and signs as a language as we couldnt communicate with the students as they only knew how to pronounce their
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To what extent was the CCP able to develop as a significant political force in the years 1927 to 1945? The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was a revolutionary movement led by Professors Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao‚ who emerged from the May Fourth Movement‚ challenging the traditional Confucian Chinese ideas and were influenced by the ideas of Karl Marx. When the CCP was first founded‚ in 1921‚ it contained only 50 members. However‚ throughout the years 1927 to 1945 it went through horrific defeats by
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years of the Sino-Japanese war explain why the situation did not change after US intervention‚ and without these events the nature of the conflict for China could have been much more positive. An example of such an event is the Xian incident in 1936; Chiang Kai-Shek was kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang and put under house arrest‚ forcing to fight the Japanese instead of the CCP. The CCP before this point had just completed the long march. Due to this it is possible that the GMD would have defeated the CCP
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Air Asia Berhad Background Founded : 1993 Hubs : Kuala Lumpur International Airport Secondary hubs: * Kota Kinabalu International Airport * Senai International Airport * Penang International Airport Subsidiaries: * Thai AirAsia * Indonesia AirAsia * VietJet AirAsia * AirAsia RedTix Fleet size : 103 (+ 121 orders) Destinations : 70 in 19 countries Company slogan : Now Everyone Can Fly Parent company : Tune Group Headquarters Registered office : Petaling Jaya‚ Selangor
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Mangrove Players Yadfon Small organisation in Thailand formed in 1985 Originally to help fishing communities Worked with people in Chao Mai which faces two issues: Mangrove Destruction – for charcoal prod’n‚ this affects supply of seafood. Yadfon created a 80 hectare managed mangrove which does not allow shrimping Destruction of Sea Grass – By drag nets‚ this is an important nursery habitat for fish and shrimps Saving Greenbelts In Asia the coastal ecosystems; including coral reefs‚
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1096. Spurred by the Mongol conquest of China‚ the northern Thai kingdoms grew in size and numbers‚ with Lanna Thai and Sukhothai becoming expecially important. Mengrai‚ a tribal leader who founded Lanna Thai‚ " A Million Rice Feilds"‚ named his Chiang Mai city which still today serves as a bastion of traditional Thai ways. Meanwhile sukhothai rose to preeminence under King Ramkhamhaeng who is thought to have invented the Thai writing system and established the basis of the Thai nation. By the 14th
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In addition‚ having peasant support for the CCP can supply with food resources. Therefore‚ Mao understood the first goal he had to achieve was the support from peasants. First‚ he set up peasant unions of Hunan from 1925-27‚ then in 1838-45 when Chiang had their attention focused on the Japanese Invasion‚ Mao and the CCP went to the rural areas‚ where the peasants were grateful for the way the soldiers behaved and helped the people . Then‚ the political leaders confiscated land from the landowners
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China 1900 – 2000 The Fall of the Qing Dynasty (1900-1912) Most of the enemies of the Manchu Empire after the nineteenth century‚ were led by Sun Yatsen‚ a good-looking 34 year old doctor. Doctor Sun Yatsen had been educated in an American school in Hawaii and therefore he was Christian. He had spent many years of his life traveling the world. He saw how advanced technologically other countries were and realized how weak China was. He found that the only way for China to come out of its stall
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