On Feb. 12, 2009, a Continental airlines turboprop commuter plane crashed into a house near Buffalo, N.Y., killing 50 people, ...

Photo/gmw.cn] People in China began holding a special ceremony on the first day of Start of Spring about 3,000 years ago. They made sacrifices to Gou Mang, the god of Spring, who is in charge of ...

[Photo/gmw.cn] People in China began holding a special ceremony ... who is in charge of agriculture. By the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), greeting spring had become an important folk activity.

By 1700, global trade was deeply entrenched in colonial expansion, financial innovation, and the increasing demand for luxury and staple goods.

The Hmong people originated in China and began spreading ... and 19th centuries in search of agricultural opportunities and to escape persecution from the Qing dynasty. During the Vietnam War ...

Unlike their contemporaries in ancient Greece and Rome, the overlords of the Xiongnu built a vast empire without a central bureaucracy, cities or mass agriculture ... old China and the new territories ...

Ask a handful of people to guess America’s favorite foods, and you’ll likely get some similar answers. It’s no secret that pizza, burgers, and fries are big sellers at fast-food, best diners and ...

In 1976, the institute expanded its curriculum to include agricultural ... in 1902 during the late Qing Dynasty as the Faculty of Education of Capital Metropolitan University. It was one of the ...

martial spirit and military art of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), as well as cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. The Art of Armaments exhibition is divided into six sections ...