As Tan Hadron crosses Mars (" Barsoom ", as Burroughs calls it ) searching for Sanoma Tora, he encounters some of Barsoom's most ferocious beasts — huge, many-armed, flesh-eating white apes, gigantic spiders, and the insane cannibals of U-Gor.

Her first Italian # 1 hit was the up-tempo " Tintarella di luna " (" Moon Tan ") in September 1959, which was performed in her first musicarello ( musical comedy film ), Juke box-Urli d ' amore.

PMMP first became well known in Finland with the 2003 summer hit Rusketusraidat (" Tan Lines ").

The most famous Chinese alchemical book, the Tan Chin Yao Ch ’ eh (" Great Secrets of Alchemy ," dating from approximately 650 AD ), discusses in detail the creation of elixirs for immortality ( mercury, sulfur, and the salts of mercury and arsenic are prominent, and most are ironically poisonous ) as well as those for curing certain diseases and the fabrication of precious stones.

* Drama: Tan Hua Ji, (" The Story of Udumbara ")

Many legends tell of Gu's feats ; according to tales related by his close students, Gu's father was an accomplished exponent of the Tan Tui (" springing leg ") form.

The Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Tan ( d. 110 BCE ) and his son Sima Qian ( 145 – 86 BCE ) established the standard model for all of imperial China's Standard Histories, such as the Book of Han written by Ban Biao ( 3 – 54 CE ), his son Ban Gu ( 32 – 92 CE ), and his daughter Ban Zhao ( 45 – 116 CE ).

The puzzle was originally popularized by The Eighth Book Of Tan, a fictitious history of Tangram, which claimed that the game was invented 4, 000 years prior by a god named Tan.

Cover art from " The 8th Book of Tan ", by Sam Loyd, a spoof of the puzzle's history that began the Tangram Craze in the Western World

The second, Det nye chinesiske Gaadespil ( The new Chinese Puzzle Game ), consisted of 339 puzzles copied from The 8th Book of Tan, as well as one original.

Another is proposed by Sam Loyd in The Eighth Book Of Tan:

File: The Magic Dice Cup tangram paradox. svg | The Magic Dice Cup tangram paradox-from Sam Loyd ’ s book Eighth Book of Tan ( 1903 ).

File: squares. GIF | Clipped square tangram paradox-from Sam Loyd ’ s book Eighth Book of Tan ( 1903 ).

Sam Loyd's Book of Tangram Puzzles ( The 8th Book of Tan Part I ).

* Amy Tan discusses The Joy Luck Club on the BBC World Book Club

Park View Primary School of Singapore was awarded a Singapore book of Records certification from Ms Shirley Tan ( Singapore Book of Records judge ) to Mdm Diane Goh ( principal of Park View Primary School ). The school has broken a record of 1, 950 students doodling a single squiggle from Dr Teo Chee Hean ( Member of Parliament Of Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC ) at the same day, same time and same duration of hours. It lasted 1 hour which is from 8. 30 am-9. 30 am (+ 8 GMT ) and it was held on Tuesday, 14 September 2010.

The notion that the " Black and Tan " terrier is now " extinct " is due almost solely to the existence of a book by Vero Shaw entitled " The Illustrated Book of the Dog.

In spring 417, Tan Daoji and another general, Shen Linzi ( 沈林子 ), engaged in a major campaign with Later Qin's most prominent general, Yao Shao ( 姚紹 ) the Duke of Lu, the uncle of the emperor Yao Hong.

Later, when Cao Cao defeated Yuan Tan in the Battle of Nanpi, Zang Ba went personally to Cao Cao to congratulate him on his great victory.

In 918, Wu, which was then ruled by Yang Wo's brother and successor Yan Longyan, launched a major attack, commanded by the general Liu Xin ( 劉信 ), on Tan Quanbo the military governor of Baisheng Circuit ( 百勝, headquartered in modern Ganzhou, Jiangxi ), who was ruling the circuit in independence but whose nominal allegiance had vacillated between Wu and Later Liang.

His father, Sima Tan, served as the Prefect of the Grand Scribes of Emperor Wu of Han ( Emperor " Han Wudi ").

During the Tang period, the ornate, artificial style of prose developed in previous periods was replace by a simple, direct, and forceful prose based on examples from the Hundred Schools ( see above ) and from the Han period, the period in which the great historical works of Sima Tan and Sima Qian were published.

Han Fu's deputy Meng Tan challenged Guan Yu to a duel but was sliced in two by Guan.

While Guan Yu was fighting with Meng Tan, Han Fu secretly took aim and fired an arrow at Guan.

According to the Han dynasty scholar Huan Tan, the old text version had four hundred characters different from the Lu version ( from which the received text of the Analects is mostly based ), and it seriously differed from the Lu version in twenty-seven places.

Thus in the cultural history of the Han, the Lius became the second famous family after Sima Tan and Sima Qian.

In his hurry, Guan failed to obtain an official document from Cao and thus had been challenged twice along the way, by Kong Xiu at Dongling Pass ( south of present day Dengfeng, Henan ) and by Han Fu and Meng Tan ( 孟坦 ) at Luoyang respectively.

Yuan Tan ( died 205 ) was the oldest son of the warlord Yuan Shao during the late Han Dynasty period of Chinese history.

Her clan name was Tatara ( 他他拉 ) but she changed to a common Han Chinese family name, Tan ( 譚 ).

The first Singaporeans to join the club included Shaw Vee Meng, Dr Yeo Chee Peng, Tan Eng Han, Koh Eng Yam, U. S. Chan and C. K. Sng.

The participating artists included Genevieve Chua, Tania de Rozario, Jane Porter, Aidah Dolrahim, Teng Nee Cheong, Martin Loh, Desmond Sim, Ernest Chan Tuck Yew, Justin Lee, Michael Lee Hong Hwee, Han Kiang Siew, Zulharli Adnan, Brian Gothong Tan, Lim Jit Hwang, Sazeli Jalal, Jason Wee, Daniel Poh, Wong Hong Weng, Nicholas Chai and Aiman Hakim.

** Tan Han Jin, musician and composer

; Tai Han Rho: Sergeant Tan Hai Rho is a sniper in Captain Angelus's company that excels in reconnaissance, demolition and hacking.

* Philip Tan as Han

Han had already heard of Kong Xiu's fate, so he discussed with his deputy Meng Tan ( 孟坦 ) on how to deal with Guan.

Even Soe's best friends, Tan Tjin Han and Herman Lantang posed the question " What is all this fighting for?

* Thomas Nawilis as Tan Tjin Han

* Christian Audi as Young Tan Tjin Han

Tan Tjin Han, young Soe's best friend, is in fact a fictional character.

After the strike the leaders of it such as Chinese international's Yang Jun, Han Yanming and Chinese U-23 player Tan Wangsong would be fronzen out of the team and eventually released, while back on the field the clubs results declined as they were unable to replicate the previous seasons achievements.

A Roman embassy of Emperor Marcus Aurelius ( r. 161 – 180 CE ) is recorded in the Hou Hanshu to have reached the court of Emperor Huan of Han ( r. 146 – 168 CE ) in 166 CE, yet Rafe de Crespigny asserts that this was most likely a group of Roman merchants.

The Later Han Dynasty Chinese chronicle, the Hou Hanshu, 88 ( covering the period 25 – 220 and completed in the 5th century ), mentioned a report that the steppe land Yancai was now known as Alanliao ( 阿蘭聊 ):

" Annotated Translation of the Chapter on the Western Regions according to the Hou Hanshu.

" Annotated Translation of the Chapter on the Western Regions according to the Hou Hanshu.

Some say that the Chinese Emperor Wu became interested in developing commercial relationships with the sophisticated urban civilizations of Ferghana, Bactria and Parthian Empire: " The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Ta-Hsia ) and Parthian Empire ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hou Hanshu, Later Han History ).

" ( Hou Hanshu, Later Han History ).

The biography of Dou Xian can be found in Chapter LIII of the Hou Hanshu.

The Hou Hanshu says that “ the language and culture of the Xianbei are the same as the Wuhuan ”.

According to the Hou Hanshu his father Touluhou had been serving in the Southern Xiongnu army for three years.

The Hou Hanshu records a memorial submitted in 177 AD:

Another memorial submitted in 185 AD is recorded by the Hou Hanshu:

The fact that the Weishu states the Kumo Xi spoke the same language as the Khitan and that the Hou Hanshu states the Wuhuan spoke the same language as the Xianbei indicate relative linguistic homogeneity within the Xianbei and a common Mongolic identity of the Wuhuan and Xianbei as remnants of the Donghu confederation.

* 2 BCE: The Hou Hanshu records the visit in 2 BCE of Yuezhi envoys to the Chinese capital, who give oral teachings on Buddhist sutras.

" Annotated Translation of the Chapter on the Western Regions according to the Hou Hanshu.

The Book of the Later Han, Hou Hanshu, states that general Ban Chao fought battles near Khotan with a Kushan army of 70, 000 men led by an otherwise unknown Kushan viceroy named Xie ( Chinese: 謝 ) in 90 CE.

* Accounts of Daqin in the Chinese history of the Later Han Hou Hanshu

" Annotated Translation of the Chapter on the Western Regions according to the Hou Hanshu ".

" Annotated Translation of the Chapter on the Western Regions according to the Hou Hanshu.

For instance, the Shiji, Hanshu, and Hou Hanshu histories.

According to ' The Chapter on the Western Regions ' of the Hou Hanshu ( Book of Later Han ), which was based on a report to the Emperor c. 125, but was not compiled until the 5th century:

The Hou Hanshu ( Book of the Later Han, covering 6 to 189 CE ) says:

Draft version of: " The Western Regions according to the Hou Hanshu.

Later, the Chinese historical chronicle Hou Hanshu describes the enquiry about Buddhism made around 67 CE by the emperor Emperor Ming ( 58-75 CE ).

" ( Hou Hanshu, trans.