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In addition, he suggests the mythical elements of the tale were based on the fictional adventures of Sun Wukong from the classical novel Journey to the West.
For example, in the classic novel Journey to the West ( circa 1590 ), Sun Wukong tells a lion-monster in chapter 75: " When I passed through Guangzhou, I bought a pot for cooking za sui – so I'll savour your liver, entrails, and lungs.
* Sun Wukong ( also the Monkey King )
Sun Wukong (), also known as the Monkey King, is a main character in the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to the West () written by Wu Cheng ' en.
Sun Wukong possesses an immense amount of strength ; he is able to lift his 13, 500 jīn ( 8, 100 kg or 17, 881 lbs ) staff with ease.
One of the most enduring Chinese literary characters, Sun Wukong has a varied background and colorful cultural history.
Depiction of Sun Wukong from a printed edition of the novel
Sun Wukong as depicted in a scene in a Beijing opera
Sun Wukong was born from a mythical stone formed from the primal forces of chaos, located on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit ( hua guo shan ).
It was from him that the monkey received his official name Sun Wukong (" Sun " implies his origin as a monkey, and " Wukong " means aware of emptiness ).
Sun Wukong became proud of his abilities, and began boasting to the other disciples.
Before they parted, he ordered that Sun Wukong promise never to tell anyone how he acquired his powers.
At the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, Sun Wukong established himself as one of the most powerful and influential demons in the world.
In search of a weapon worthy of himself, Sun Wukong traveled into the oceans, where he acquired the Golden-banded staff Ruyi Jingu Bang, which could change its size, multiply itself, and fight according to the whim of its master.
Its versatility meant that Sun Wukong could wield it as a staff and keep it inside his ear as a sewing needle.
Sun Wukong formed a fraternity with the Bull Demon King ( 牛魔王 ), the Saurial Demon King ( 蛟魔王 ), the Roc Demon King ( 鵬魔王 ), the Lion Spirit King ( 獅狔王 ), the Macaque Spirit King ( 獼猴王 ) and the Marmoset Spirit King ( ).
Sun Wukong then defied Hell's attempt to collect his soul.
Hoping that a promotion and a rank amongst the gods would make him more manageable, the Jade Emperor invited Sun Wukong to Heaven, where the monkey believed he would receive an honorable place as one of the gods.
When he discovered this, Sun Wukong rebelled and proclaimed himself the " Great Sage, Equal of Heaven ", and allied with some of the most powerful demons on earth.
Sun Wukong later single-handedly defeated the Army of Heaven's 100, 000 celestial warriors-each fight an equivalent of a cosmic embodiment, including all 28 constellations, four heavenly kings, and Nezha, the son of Li Jiang Jun who proved himself worthy-and proved himself equal to the best of Heaven's generals, Erlang Shen.
Eventually, through the teamwork of Taoist and Buddhist forces, including the efforts from some of the greatest deities, Sun Wukong was captured.
After several failed attempts at execution, Sun Wukong was locked into Lao Tzu's eight-way trigram cauldron to be distilled into an elixir by the most sacred and the most severe samadhi fires.

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What is needed, Philip Morrison writes in The Cornell Daily Sun ( October 26 ) is a discontinuity.
One of the most appealing of the rooftop canvases is `` Sun And Wind On The Roof '', with a woman and child bracing themselves against flapping clothes and flying birds.
* Another group is the School of the Military that studied strategy and the philosophy of war ; Sunzi and Sun Bin were influential leaders.
An astronomical unit ( abbreviated as AU, au, a. u., or ua ) is a unit of length equal to exactly or approximately the mean Earth – Sun distance.
An equivalent definition is the radius of an unperturbed circular Newtonian orbit about the Sun of a particle having infinitesimal mass, moving with an angular frequency of radians per day ; or that length such that, when used to describe the positions of the objects in the Solar System, the heliocentric gravitational constant ( the product GM < sub >☉</ sub >) is equal to ()< sup > 2 </ sup > AU < sup > 3 </ sup >/ d < sup > 2 </ sup >.
This is because the distance between the Earth and the Sun is not fixed ( it varies between AU and AU ) and, when the Earth is closer to the Sun ( perihelion ), the Sun's gravitational field is stronger and the Earth is moving faster along its orbital path.
According to Archimedes in the Sandreckoner ( 2. 1 ), Aristarchus of Samos estimated the distance to the Sun to be 10, 000 times the Earth's radius ( the true value is about 23, 000 ).
However, the book On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, which has long been ascribed to Aristarchus, says that he calculated the distance to the sun to be between 18 and 20 times the distance to the Moon, whereas the true ratio is about 389. 174.
1st century BCE ), shows how the distance to the Sun can be computed geometrically, using the different lengths of the noontime shadows observed at three places 1000 li apart and the assumption that the Earth is flat.
Arizona State University's Division I athletic teams are called the Sun Devils, which is also the nickname used to refer to students and alumni of the university.
The Sun Devil mascot is named Sparky.
In this case, the absolute magnitude is defined as the apparent magnitude that the object would have if it were one astronomical unit ( AU ) from both the Sun and the observer.
Because the object is illuminated by the Sun, absolute magnitude is a function of phase angle and this relationship is referred to as the phase curve.

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These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids.
His works were so influential that late in the 9th century Notker the Stammerer, a monk of the Monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland, wrote that " God, the orderer of natures, who raised the Sun from the East on the fourth day of Creation, in the sixth day of the world has made Bede rise from the West as a new Sun to illuminate the whole Earth ".
Companies like Sun Microsystems, Novell, and Microsoft provide their own APIs so that many applications are written using their software libraries that usually have numerous APIs in them.
The actual speed with which the Earth orbits the Sun varies slightly during the year, so the speed with which the Sun seems to move along the ecliptic also varies.
In the case of planetary transfers this means directing the spacecraft, originally in an orbit almost identical to Earth's, so that the aphelion of the transfer orbit is on the far side of the Sun near the orbit of the other planet.
This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle.
However, Hemingway himself later wrote to his editor Max Perkins that the " point of the book " was not so much about a generation being lost, but that " the earth abideth forever "; he believed the characters in The Sun Also Rises may have been " battered " but were not lost.
Although the Sun is much denser than a GMC, the volume of a GMC is so great that it contains much more mass than the Sun.
The orbit of the Earth around the Sun is also elliptic, so the speed of the Earth also varies, which also affects the phases of the Moon.
The principal aide to Sun Myung Moon, Bo Hi Pak, was quoted by Carlton Sherwood in his book Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon as declaring to the United States Congress: " I am a proud Korean – a proud ' Moonie ' – and a dedicated anti-Communist and I intend to remain so the rest of my life.
These forms of propulsion require no propellant or energy input other than that of the Sun, and so can be used indefinitely.
Ozone is transparent to most UV-A, so most of this type of longer wavelength reaches the surface, and becomes the primary type of UV from the Sun to do so.
Ptolemy's astrological outlook was quite practical: he thought that astrology was like medicine, that is conjectural, because of the many variable factors to be taken into account: the race, country, and upbringing of a person affects an individual's personality as much if not more than the positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets at the precise moment of their birth, so Ptolemy saw astrology as something to be used in life but in no way relied on entirely.
In the Sun, deuterium-producing events are so rare ( diprotons, the much more common result of nuclear reactions within the star, immediately decay back into two protons ) that a complete conversion of the star's hydrogen would take more than ( ten billion ) years at the prevailing conditions of its core.
In the meantime, the Berkeley RISC effort had become so well known that it eventually became the name for the entire concept and in 1987 Sun Microsystems began shipping systems with the SPARC processor, directly based on the Berkeley RISC-II system.
Once in the desired orbit, they often need some form of attitude control so that they are correctly pointed with respect to the Earth, the Sun, and possibly some astronomical object of interest .< ref >
Unfortunately, TNOs are so far from the Sun that they are very cold, hence produce black-body radiation around 60 micrometres in wavelength.
The absolute magnitude of the Sun is 4. 8, so, at a distance of, the Sun would have an apparent magnitude: .</ ref >
After Marshall demanded to know Wilson's status so that he could prepare for the possibility of becoming president, they had a reporter from the Baltimore Sun brief Marshall and inform him that Wilson was near death.

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