Early Chinese anchoritism was theoretically aimed at a mystic pantheist union with the divine, personal salvation being achieved when the mystical recluse united with divine essence.

Early markings from this period found on pottery and shells are thought to be ancestral to modern Chinese characters.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Early Ming Legislation: The Reordering of Chinese Society Following the Era of Mongol Rule.

In Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, edited by Michael Loewe.

" In Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide, ed.

Early reference to the Chinese export of ivory is recorded after the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian ventured to the west to form alliances to enable for the eventual free movement of Chinese goods to the west ; as early as the first century BC, ivory was moved along the Northern Silk Road for consumption by western nations.

This set of syllables shrinks to 67 in Early Middle Japanese ( though some were added through Chinese influence ).

Early Middle Japanese sees a significant amount of Chinese influence on the language's phonology – length distinctions become phonemic for both consonants and vowels, and series of both labialised ( e. g. kwa ) and palatalised ( kya ) consonants are added.

Early records on medicine have been discovered from ancient Egyptian medicine, Babylonian medicine, Ayurvedic medicine ( in the Indian subcontinent ), classical Chinese medicine ( predecessor to the modern traditional Chinese Medicine ), and ancient Greek medicine and Roman medicine.

Early poems evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a need to retell oral epics, as with the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Early Chinese rocket.

* Early Daoist texts – Chinese Text Project

" Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese, and Early Mandarin " ( UBC Press, 1991 ).

Early ceramic wares made at Meissen and other centers of true porcelain imitated Chinese shapes for dishes, vases and teawares ( see Chinese export porcelain ).

Early Chinese literature refers to the Yellow River simply as ( Old Chinese: * C. gˤaj ), a character that has come to simply mean " river " in modern usage.

* Characters such as 武 ( war, martial arts ) or 屋 ( room, house ), pronounced roughly mwio and uk in Early Middle Chinese, have an initial v phoneme in Hakka, being vu and vuk in Hakka respectively ( Mandarin: wu ).

Early missiles used liquid-fueled rocket motors.

On April 6, 1965, Intelsat ’ s first satellite, the Intelsat I ( nicknamed Early Bird ), was placed in geostationary orbit above the Atlantic Ocean by a Delta D rocket.

* Early rocket pioneers believed that single stage to orbit was impossible

Early in the morning of 2 October 2000 at the High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility ( HELSTF ), Lightcraft Technologies, Inc. ( LTI ) with the help of Franklin B. Mead of the U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Leik Myrabo set a new world's altitude record of 233 feet ( 71 m ) for its 4. 8 inch ( 12. 2 cm ) diameter,, laser-boosted rocket in a flight lasting 12. 7 seconds.

Early proposals for this type of rocket, such as those developed by Eugen Sänger, assumed the use of some material that could reflect gamma rays, used as a light sail to derive thrust from the annihilation reaction.

Early American sub-orbital rocket flights were achieved at Cape Canaveral in 1956.

Early V2s leveraged 2 gyroscopes and lateral accelerometer with a simple analog computer to adjust the azimuth for the rocket in flight.

:" Early in the sixteenth century, Wan decided to take advantage of China's advanced rocket and fireworks technology to launch himself into outer space.

Early Italian satellites were launched using vehicles provided by NASA, first from Wallops Flight Facility in 1964 and then from a spaceport in Kenya ( San Marco Platform ) between 1967 and 1988 ; Italy is now participating in the development of the Vega rocket with the ESA.

Early LDV applications ranged from measuring and mapping the exhaust from rocket engines with speeds up to 1000 m / s to determining flow in a near-surface blood artery.

Early Zenits were launched using the Vostok rocket ; later versions used the Voskhod and the Soyuz rockets.

Early in the Al-Aqsa intifada, Al-Ghoul developed the Qassam rocket.

Early application of trajectory optimization had to do with the optimization of rocket thrust profiles in:

A common claim is that the first recorded use of a rocket in battle was by the Chinese in 1232 against the Mongol hordes at Kai Feng Fu.

This text also mentioned the use of the first known multistage rocket, the ' fire-dragon issuing from the water ' ( huo long chu shui ), used mostly by the Chinese navy.

* Chinese text the Huolongjing by Jiao Yu describes fire lances, fire arrows ( rockets ), rocket launchers, land mines, naval mines, bombards, cannons, and hollow cast iron cannonballs filled with gunpowder, and their use to set ablaze enemy camps.

The first Chinese ballistic missiles were based on Russian design, which was originally based on the German V-2 rocket.

Anti-aircraft missiles, rocket launchers and machine guns, valued at hundreds of millions, were given to the mujahideen by the Chinese.

The properties of water cushion the spacecraft enough that there is no need for a braking rocket to slow the final descent as was the case with Russian and Chinese manned space capsules, which returned to Earth over land.

UDMH is used in many European, Russian, Indian, and Chinese rocket designs.

This avoids the need for components that are tolerant of low temperatures, and allows the rocket to sit on the pad indefinitely ( other launchers with such capability include the U. S. Titan II, Titan III, and Titan IV, the Chinese Long March 2 rocket family and Long March 4 rocket family, the Soviet / Ukrainian Tsyklon launchers, the Soviet / Russian Kosmos-3 and Kosmos-3M launchers and the European Ariane 1 to Ariane 4 launchers ).

Ninth Century Chinese Taoist alchemists discovered black powder in a search for the Elixir of life ; this accidental discovery led to fire arrows which were the first rocket engines to leave the ground.

A song ' Oberammergau ' by UK musician Christopher Rye ( featuring Chinese rock band Taikonauts ) is based on a reference in the book Dark Side of the Moon by Gerard de Groot, to Oberammergau being the destination for the rocket scientists fleeing Nazi Germany at the end of the Second World War, who then helped build the US space programme.

He returned to lead the Chinese rocket program, and became known as the " Father of Chinese Rocketry " ( or " King of Rocketry ").

Hundreds of millions worth of anti aircraft missiles, rocket launchers and machine guns were given to the Mujahidin by the Chinese.

The Chinese space officials have said that the Long March 2F rocket featured a " fire security system " on the escape tower.

From an illustration and description in the 14th century Chinese Huolongjing of Jiao Yu is the oldest known multistage rocket ; this was the ' fire-dragon issuing from the water ' ( 火龙出水, huo long chu shui ), used mostly by the Chinese navy.

Rocket-based weapons have a long history, from the black powder fire arrows used by the ancient Chinese to the Congreve rocket referenced in " The Star-Spangled Banner ," the national anthem of the United States.

In January 2002, Loral reached a settlement with the U. S. Government in a case relating to the company ’ s involvement in a review of a Chinese rocket launch failure in 1996.

Hundreds of millions worth of anti aircraft missiles, rocket launchers and machine guns were given to the Mujahidin by the Chinese.

Later, one of the tanks received a direct hit from a 3. 5 inch rocket, while the forward perimeter was struck heavily by attacking waves of Chinese, and was forced back with heavy casualties.

* The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that there had been a leak of ammonium nitrate, a substance used in some explosives, as a fertilizer, and in rocket fuel.