Generally, children first studied the Chinese characters with rote memorization of the Three Character Classic and Hundred Family Surnames, then went on to memorize the other classics, in order to ascend in the social hierarchy.

The Chinese played the game using sheets printed with Chinese characters, often the first 80 characters of the Thousand Character Classic, from which the winning characters were selected.

Another is the Thousand Character Classic in which all 1000 characters are unique without any repetition.

** The Thousand Character Classic is a one-thousand-character poem in which each character is used exactly once, but it does not include all Chinese characters.

Golden Books Family Entertainment was acquired by Classic Media Inc. and Random House in a bankruptcy auction for $ 84. 4 million on August 16, 2001, with Classic gaining rights to Golden's film and TV library ( including Lamb Chop, Lassie, the pre-1974 Rankin / Bass library, among other titles ) as well as the production, licensing and merchandising rights for Golden's characters, while Random House grabbed Golden's publishing rights.

It mostly consisted of " Classic " Generation One characters, with contemporary re-designs and updated alternate modes.

Classic characters such as Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Prowl, Starscream, Megatron, Jazz and Ultra Magnus appear in this series.

'" The album cover has become an iconic image from the album rock era, appearing on the background of the set of VH1 Classic, on tee shirts worn by characters in movies and on TV, and in other places.

" A GamesRadar article of " Classic game characters " featured Cloud's redesigns across his various appearances, with comments on how each of his designs bore similarities, yet were also sightly different.

Within historical Chinese phonology, the term refers to the language reflected by the rhymes of the Classic of Poetry and the phonetic components of Chinese characters, corresponding to the earlier half of the 1st millennium BC.

* The Thousand Character Classic, a Chinese poem used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children

The series also incorporated characters from the Archie Goodwin Star Wars newspaper strip story " Iceworld ", reprinted by Dark Horse comics in Classic Star Wars.

The Thousand Character Classic ( 千字文 ) is a Chinese poem used as a primer for teaching Chinese characters to children.

The Thousand Character Classic is composed of 250 phrases of 4 characters each from " 天地玄黃 " ( jyutping: tin1 dei6 jyun4 wong4, pinyin: tiān dì xuán huáng ) to " 焉哉乎也 " ( jyutping: yin1 zoi1 fu1 jaa5, pinyin: yān zāi hū yě ).

The Thousand Character Classic has been used as a primer for learning Chinese characters for many centuries.

The Thousand Character Classic has its own form in representing the Chinese characters.

Only 13 characters ( Cyrax, Ermac, Jade, Mileena, Sektor, Kitana, Motaro, Nightwolf, Noob Saibot, Raiden, Reptile, Shao Kahn ) and 10 Kombat Zones remain in this version ( screenshots of early releases included Smoke, Scorpion, Classic Sub-Zero, Human Smoke, Goro, and Kintaro as characters, while Nightwolf and Raiden were not present and were probably added to include characters that were not palette swaps ).

UPA's theatrical cartoon library and the feature film 1001 Arabian Nights ( starring Mr. Magoo ) are owned by its original distributor Columbia Pictures via Sony Pictures, and the feature film Gay Purr-ee is owned by its original distributor Warner Bros., however Classic Media retains the rights to the characters via UPA.

Adventure Classic Gaming stated that, though the game has some " annoying flaws ," it " can be quite charming to play if you seek to experience the thrill of being a high-tech spy infiltrating an enemy stronghold in a foreign land ," and that it " offers up a decent story and interesting characters set in an alternate reality of cold war espionage.

The contents of Captain America Comics # 1-10 were previously published as Captain America: The Classic Years two hardcover slipcase set in 1990.

These were later re-issued as trade paperbacks in the late 1990s once again under the title Captain America: The Classic Years featuring new cover art by Kevin Maguire re-creating classic covers.

The other works that helped fan the Revival flames were Carl Van Doren's The American Novel ( 1921 ), D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature ( 1923 ), Carl Van Vechten's essay in The Double Dealer ( 1922 ), and Lewis Mumford's biography, Herman Melville: A Study of His Life and Vision ( 1929 ).

) In 1996, these were followed by Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom, a single CD-ROM which contained the works of both collections.

AvtoVAZ however began to move production of the Classic models ( which were still selling strongly in Russia ) out of Togliatti at the end of 2010-fuelling further speculation that this is to free up production capacity for the 2116.

Classic oars were made out of wood, but modern oars are made from more expensive and durable synthetic material, the most common being carbon fiber.

On April 4, 2006, Clemens made an insulting remark when asked about the devotion of Japanese and South Korean fans during the World Baseball Classic: " None of the dry cleaners were open, they were all at the game, Japan and Korea ".

Eight separate boxed games were released as tie-in products: Striker, a game of tabletop miniature warfare, added very complex rules for vehicle design & combat, Mayday concentrated on small ship vs ship space combat, Snapshot and Azhanti High Lightning featured small-unit battles on board spacecraft, while Fifth Frontier War, Invasion Earth and Dark Nebula were wargames based on selected interstellar conflicts from the Classic Traveller ( though in the case of the later this was not the case on its publication, but they were used as the basis of parts of the ' imperial ' background ) future history.

As of 2009 there were only two U. S. companies, Classic and AlphaSmart, which still made stand-alone word processors.

Both titles were relaunched as Classic 2000AD and Classic Judge Dredd in the mid-1990s but were cancelled soon after.

The Women's Professional Racquetball Organization ( WPRO ) is the women's professional organization, while the Classic Pro Racquetball Tour ( CPRT ) is for players 40 and older many of whom were pro players at younger ages.

According to an archaic myth he was sired by Cronus when he had taken the form of a horse and impregnated the nymph Philyra, Chiron's lineage was different from other centaurs, who were born of sun and raincloud, rendered by Greeks of the Classic period as from the union of the king Ixion, consigned to a fiery wheel, and Nephele (" cloud "), which in the Olympian telling Zeus invented to look like Hera.

Matches between the two clubs quickly were dubbed as ' de Klassieker ' ( The Classic ).

The DVD two-pack, The Ultimate Toy Box set, the Gold Classic Collection VHS and DVD and the original DVD were put in the Disney Vault.

The band were ranked 38th in Classic Rock's " 50 Best Live Acts of All Time " in 2008.

The group were headliners at the TW Classic festival in Werchter, Belgium on 7 June 2008.

The eight original teams and their counterparts in the " Classic Eight " were:

The first “ Classic ” writer was Aulus Gellius, a 2nd-century Roman writer who, in the miscellany Noctes Atticae ( 19, 8, 15 ), refers to a writer as a Classicus scriptor, non proletarius (“ A distinguished, not a commonplace writer ”).

It was licensed to RedBrick LLC in 2003, who released the Classic Edition in 2005 and the game's Third Edition in 2009 ( the latter through Mongoose Publishing's Flaming Cobra imprint ).

Classic Islamic law details many aspects of the act of prayer, including who can pray, when to pray, how to pray, and where to pray.

Classic Islamic law details the exact definition of the fast, the times of fasting, how a fast may be broken, who must fast, and permitted exceptions to the fast.

Berger owned thoroughbred horses, achieving notable success with the colt Nonoalco who won four Group One races including the 1974 British Classic, the 2, 000 Guineas.

The Taínos are subdivided into Classic Taínos, who occupied Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, Western Taínos, who occupied Cuba, Jamaica, and the Bahamian archipelago, and the Eastern Taínos, who occupied the Leeward Islands.

SNL also parodies ESPN Classic with fake archived obscure women's sportscasts from the 1980s such as bowling, weight lifting and curling, with announcers who know nothing about the sport, and instead focus on the sponsors which are always women's hygiene products.

Apart from Penguin Books, who for this purpose have resorted to their old green cover and dug out some of their vintage authors, Pan started a series in 1999 entitled " Pan Classic Crime ," which includes a handful of novels by Eric Ambler, but also American Hillary Waugh's Last Seen Wearing ....

In 2011, Brian Sibley, who had previously adapted the book for radio in 1984, adapted the story again, this time as six one-hour episodes broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as the Classic Serial starting on 10 July 2011.

Another new aspect of literary suicides introduced in the Petersburg texts is that authors have shifted their gazes from individuals and their plot-driving actions to presentations of broad political ideologies, which are common to Greek and Roman heroes — this step was taken in order to establish a connection between Russian male protagonists who take their own lives and Classic tragic heroes, whereas the women of the literature remained as microcosms for the stereotyped idea of the female condition.

Liza Schafer of Home Office Computing praised the Classic's ease of use and price, but criticized the display because a full US letter page ( 8½ × 11 inches ) would not fit at full size, and warned those who required high-end graphics and desktop publishing capabilities against buying the Classic.

Winchell also had three starters in the Kentucky Derby: Classic Go Go, who finished fourth in 1981 ; Sea Cadet, who finished eighth in 1991 ; and Valiant Nature, who finished 13th in 1994.

To celebrate its 40th anniversary, a retrospective book was published in 2006 entitled, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The Making of a Television Classic with the entire script, never-before-seen photographs, storyboard excerpts, and interviews with the original child actors who provided the voices of the Peanuts gang.

Frank and Dyment also discuss Maestro Toscanini's performance history in the 50th anniversary issue of Classic Record Collector ( 2006, 47 ) Frank with ' Toscanini – Myth and Reality ' ( 10 – 14 ) and Dyment ' A Whirlwind in London ' ( 15 – 21 ) This issue also contains interviews with people who performed with Toscanini – Jon Tolansky ' Licia Albanese – Maestro and Me ' ( 22 – 6 ) and ' A Mesmerising Beat: John Tolansky talks to some of those who worked with Arturo Toscanini, to discover some of the secrets of his hold over singers, orchestras and audiences.

This list proved to be extremely attractive to similar popular classical music radio stations in other countries and there was a legal dispute between Ray and Classic FM, which Ray won in 1998, as to who was entitled to the copyright in the playlist and ratings ( Robin Ray v Classic FM Plc FSR 622 ).

The first non-playable character in the Classic Mode is Giant Donkey Kong, who is simply a larger and more powerful version of Donkey Kong.

The following week Norman won the MCI Heritage Golf Classic at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina in April 1988, inspired by a leukemia-stricken teenager who got his wish to meet Norman and watch him play ; he was only supposed to watch him for two rounds, but Norman arranged for him to stay until the tournament's completion, after which Norman gave him the winner's trophy.