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Several modern scholars ( notably Chen Feilong ) have speculated based on close textual study that Ge revised or rewrote these twenty chapters after his final retirement in 331, and that the " Inner Chapters " mentioned here might be an altogether different edition of the work that exists today by that title.

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* Yinglong (), winged dragon associated with rains and floods, used by Huangdi to kill Chi You
We find such examples of transferred epithets as " the winged sound of whirling " (), meaning " the sound of whirling wings " ( Aristophanes, Birds 1198 ), and Horace's " angry crowns of kings " ( iratos ... regum apices, Odes 3. 21. 19f .).

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The name oolong tea came into the English language from the Chinese name (), meaning " black dragon tea ".
* Tianlong (), celestial dragon that guards heavenly palaces and pulls divine chariots ; also a name for the constelllation Draco
* Jiaolong (), hornless or scaled dragon, leader of all aquatic animals
* Panlong (), lake dragon that has not ascended to heaven
* Huanglong (), hornless dragon symbolizing the emperor
* Qiulong (), contradictorily defined as both " horned dragon " and " hornless dragon "
* Chilong (), a hornless dragon or mountain demon
* Hong (), a two-headed dragon or rainbow serpent
* Shen (), a shapeshifting dragon or sea monster believed to create mirages
In his De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (), written c. 540, Gildas makes an allegorical condemnation of 5 British kings by likening them to the beasts of the Christian Apocalypse as expressed in the biblical Book of Revelation, 13-2: the lion, leopard, bear, and dragon, with the dragon supreme among them .< ref >* — " And the beast which I saw was like unto a < u > leopard </ u >, and his feet were as the feet of a < u > bear </ u >, and his mouth as the mouth of a < u > lion </ u >: and the < u > dragon </ u > gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
During the 19th century, villagers in the area digging in the fields discovered a number of bones and used them as " dragon bones " (), a reference to the traditional Chinese medicine practice of grinding up Pleistocene fossils into tonics or poultices.
The most feared grand eunuch of the imperial court An Dehai (), close confidant of Empress Dowager Cixi, was on a trip south to buy some dragon robes for Empress Dowager Cixi.
Set in the fictional world of Alagaësia (), the novels focus on the adventures of a teenage boy named Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, as they struggle to overthrow an evil king named Galbatorix.
As well as the Malay word, Thai chilies can also be referred to as cabe rawit ( Indonesian ), lombok rawit ( Javanese ), cengis ( Banyumasan language ), cengek ( Sundanese ), phrik khi nu (), Thai hot, Thai dragon ( due to its resemblance to claws ), siling labuyo ( Filipino ), ladâ, and boonie pepper ( the Anglicized name ).
In his De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae (), written c. 540, Gildas makes an allegorical condemnation of 5 British kings by likening them to the beasts of the Christian Apocalypse as expressed in the biblical Book of Revelation, 13-2: the lion, leopard, bear, and dragon .< ref >* — " And the beast which I saw was like unto a < u > leopard </ u >, and his feet were as the feet of a < u > bear </ u >, and his mouth as the mouth of a < u > lion </ u >: and the < u > dragon </ u > gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
In Hittite mythology, Illuyanka was a serpentine dragon slain by Tarhunt (), the Hittite incarnation of the Hurrian god of sky and storm.

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Whiteface Mountain (), in nearby Wilmington about from Lake Placid, offers skiing, hiking, gondola rides, and mountain biking, and is the only one of the High Peaks that can be reached via an auto road.

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Ambracia, occasionally Ampracia (), was a city of ancient Greece on the site of modern Arta.
On his return from Troy, his vessel was wrecked on the Whirling Rocks (), but he himself escaped upon a rock through the assistance of Poseidon and would have been saved in spite of Athena, but he said that he would escape the dangers of the sea in defiance of the immortals.
Acts also features an emphasis on prayer and includes a number of notable prayers such as the Believers ' Prayer (), Stephen's death prayer (), and Simon Magus ' prayer ().
Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters on the tactics of the Greeks, titled On tactical arrays of the Greeks (), is dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106 has been assigned to it.
The station is located slightly east of the Mansei bridge (), on the Akihabara side of the Kanda River.
The Battle of Ramillies (), fought on 23 May 1706, was a major engagement of the War of the Spanish Succession.
* He scored 34 centuries ; joint-fifth along with Sunil Gavaskar, on the all-time list behind Sachin Tendulkar (), Jacques Kallis ( 43 ), Ricky Ponting ( 41 ) and Rahul Dravid ( 36 ).
Unification or Death (), unofficially known as the Black Hand ( Црна рука, Crna ruka ), was a secret military society formed by members of the Serbian army in the Kingdom of Serbia, which was founded on 6 September 1901.
BIND (), or named (), is the most widely used DNS software on the Internet.
The Order of Preachers (), after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Roman Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III ( 1216 – 27 ) on 22 December 1216 in France.
# Adélie Land (), the French claim on the Antarctica continent ;
Henry IV restored the charter granted to Gibraltar in 1310 and took two additional measures: the lands previously belonging to Algeciras ( destroyed in 1369 ) were granted to Gibraltar ; and the status of collegiate church was solicited from the pope Pius II and granted to the parish church of Saint Mary the Crowned (), now the Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned, on the site of the old main Moorish Mosque.
* A young man sits on the " right side " (), cf.
Together, Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon were known as the " Catholic Monarchs " (), a title bestowed on them by Pope Alexander VI.
Each kana is either a vowel such as " a " ( hiragana あ ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as " ka " ( hiragana か ); or " n " ( hiragana ん ), a nasal sonorant which, depending on the context, sounds either like English m, n, or ng (), or like the nasal vowels of French.
Indonesia has 21, 579 km of navigable waterways (), of which about one half are on Kalimantan, and a quarter each on Sumatra and Papua.
So long as Ahaz reigned, the kingdom of Judah was unmolested by the Assyrian power ; but on his accession to the throne, Hezekiah, who was encouraged to rebel " against the king of Assyria " (), entered into an alliance with the king of Egypt ().
Isaiah on that occasion encouraged Hezekiah to resist the Assyrians (), whereupon Sennacherib sent a threatening letter to Hezekiah, which he " spread before the LORD " ().
Each kana is either a vowel such as " a " ( katakana ア ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as " ka " ( katakana カ ); or " n " ( katakana ン ), a nasal sonorant which, depending on the context, sounds either like English m, n, or ng (), or like the nasal vowels of French.
The family name is based on the genus Tettigonia, which is New Latin ( Linnaeus, 1748 ), and derives from the Greek (), a cicada.
* In Japanese, Guanyin is pronounced Kannon (), occasionally Kan ' on, or more formally Kanzeon (, the same characters as Guanshiyin ); the spelling Kwannon, based on a pre-modern pronunciation, is sometimes seen.

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