Later on, many more Dvaravati sites were discovered throughout the Chao Phraya valley.

The eastern parts of the Chao Phraya valley were subjected to a more Khmer and Hindu influence as the inscriptions are found in Khmer and Sanskrit.

The Huang Chao Rebellion weakened the imperial government's authority, and by the early 10th century the jiedushi, who commanded de facto independence, were not subject to the authority of the imperial government.

Ban Chao, Protector General ( 都護 ; Duhu ) of the Han Dynasty embarked with an army of 70, 000 men in a campaign against the Xiongnu insurgents who were harassing the trade route we now know as the Silk Road.

The resulting music differed drastically from Mano Negra ; the songs were primarily sung in Spanish with far fewer French tracks and the musical style had shifted from punk and alternative styles to the street vibe Chao was aiming for.

Tours in the United States with Mano Negra were not as successful as elsewhere and Chao seems inclined to focus his efforts in the places where his musical style finds its roots.

Inconstant and Comete were attacked in Chao Phraya, and the French sent an ultimatum: an indemnity of three million francs, as well as the cession of and withdrawal from Laos.

The Burmese then besieged Phitsanulok which was defended by the brother generals, Chao Phraya Chakri and Chao Phya Surasih, and as the result of the stubborn resistance on the part of Thai soldiers, they were checked outside the city ramparts for about 4 months.

The Burmese entered the city, but were forced out by a Thai army under Chao Phraya Surasih which had marched to its relief.

A Thai army under Chao Phraya Chakri was ordered to move against the rebel, who was caught and executed, and having received reinforcements under Chao Phraya Surasih, he advanced to Champasak, where the ruler, Chao O and his deputy, were captured and were summarily beheaded.

Sonic Team's Takashi Iizuka stated in an interview with video game publication 1UP. com that Chao were incorporated into Sonic Adventure " so that new players would be forced to go out, explore the action sections, and find Flickies and things.

" Chao were designed as a " relative neutral entity " in this game.

However, to remain consistent with the good – evil dichotomy of Sonic Adventure 2, they were designed so that the player could raise them as " hero chao " or " Dark Chao ".

Chao clothing clips, along with accessories based on other Sega characters, were available.

Mae Hong Son historical records state that in the year 1831, which corresponds to the reign of King Nangklao ( Rama III ) of the Rattanakosin Period, in the mueang of Phing Nakhon ( เม ื องพ ิ งค ์ นคร ) known today as Chiang Mai, in the lands of the Kingdom of Lannathai, was Phraya Chiang Mai Mahawong ( พระยาเช ี ยงใหม ่ มหาวงศ ์), who was later to ascend to the rank of Phra Chao Mahottraprathet Racha Thibodi ( พระเจ ้ ามโหตรประเทศราชาธ ิ บด ี), who knew that to the west of Chiang Mai, which meant the lands of today's Mae Hong Son, was a geography of tall mountains and dense forests inhabited by a myriad of forest creatures of which wild elephants in particular were in great abundance, and thus ordered Lord Kaeo, who was a relative of his and a local military chief and governor, to herd these elephants out into the custody of mahouts, to survey the feasibility of this task on such western frontierlands and to be of further service in the capturing of the elephants so that they might be trained for labour thereafter.

* Exceptionally, in the former Manu Chao band Mano Negra, the roadies were included as a part of the band when they signed for Virgin.

They were due to pass through Liang Province along the way, and Ma Chao suspected that Cao Cao was planning to attack him.

Wei Kang's deputies, Yang Fu, Jiang Xu, Liang Kuan, Zhao Qu and others, were unhappy with Ma Chao and plotted against him.

This movie includes several songs, most of which were performed in the original Japanese version by the movie's narrator, singer / songwriter Iruka ; however, Chao / Katy's recurring theme song, Chao no Kuroneko no Uta ( The Song of Black Cat Chao ), was sung by Chao's voice actress, Kazuko Sugiyama.

The Chao raising feature was expanded in Sonic Adventure 2 ; Chao may become " Hero Chao " or " Dark Chao " depending on whether the game's " hero " characters ( Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles " Tails " Prower, and Knuckles the Echidna ) or " dark " characters ( Shadow the Hedgehog, Doctor Ivo Robotnik, and Rouge the Bat ) are nicer to them.

Chao have also appeared in the series as minor characters and gameplay elements.

Two Chao — one Normal and one Dark — who drive Chao-styled mechas are playable characters in the two-player battle mode of Sonic Adventure 2: Battle.

The resulting infant Chao can be equipped to characters.

Marking the introduction of the character Sonic the Hedgehog to the 2008 Wii game Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Chao and other characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog series appear as collectible trophies and stickers.

Chao have been adapted into mood key chains as part of a series of key chains based on Sonic X characters.

Connections between characters are vague, but the individual stories are eventually pieced together by chapter 40 after Song Jiang succeeds Chao Gai as the leader of the outlaw band, after the latter dies in battle against the Zeng Family Fortress.

Chao translated Jabberwocky into Chinese by inventing characters to imitate what Rob Gifford describes as the " slithy toves that gyred and gimbled in the wabe of Carroll's original.

Additional characters include familiar characters from previous games, but they must be unlocked in the original Dreamcast version: Amy and Metal Sonic complement Sonic and Shadow, Chao and Dark Chao complement Tails and Eggman, and Tikal and Chaos 0 complement Knuckles and Rouge.

Other characters in the game includes Assistant Director Wilson ( Mark Hamill ), Deviant1 ( Rosalind Chao ), Manuel Vergara ( Gustavo Vargas ) and Alex ' Skip ' Larson ( Dee Bradley Baker ).

The available characters were: Sonic, Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Super Sonic, Big the Cat, Gamma, and Chao.

* List of Water Margin minor characters # Chao Gai's story for a list of supporting minor characters from Chao Gai's story.

Aside from the immediate game mission, the game also contains an artificial life (" A-Life ") system, a precursor to the Chao featured in Sonic Team's later Sonic Adventure titles.

Chao can be taken with the player by downloading the minigame Chao Adventure to their VMU, or in the GameCube version, a Game Boy Advance with Sonic Advance or various other Game Boy Advance Sonic games.

Amy is chasing after Sonic whilst Cream seeks to find her Chao friend Cheese's companion, Chocola, and Big is seeking out his friend, Froggy, with only a newspaper clipping to go by.

Amy Rose, Cream the Rabbit, and Big the Cat team up to find Cream's Chao Chocola, Big's Froggy, and Sonic after seeing a newspaper article of Sonic holding both Froggy and Chocola.

Chao made their first appearance in the 1998 Dreamcast game Sonic Adventure as digital pets.

A Chao " socialization program " was incorporated into Sonic Adventure 2 in order to make the game unique.

Professor Chao, a minor character in Sonic Adventure 2, states that Chao are cute, and enjoy toys and being held or petted.

Chao have appeared in numerous Sonic the Hedgehog video games as digital pets.

His friends in the various manga and anime incarnations of his story include Beezle, the orphaned Devil of Solitude ; Chao ( or " Katy " in the English anime ), a naive little kitty who longs to be a human girl, and to learn magic from a real witch ; a spunky little Sphinx ( in the second film ), and a warm-hearted human girl named Cheri.

After working for six months in 2001 as a special assistant to Elaine Chao, the United States Secretary of Labor in Washington, D. C., McHenry returned to North Carolina and ran again for the state legislature, winning in the November 2002 general election.

This is because Chao ran frequency tests, and used single letters for the most common consonants and vowels, while restricting digraphs and trigraphs to the more infrequent ones.