The period of political disunity between the Tang and the Song, known as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, lasted little more than half a century, from 907 to 960.

However, landscape art did not reach greater level of maturity and realism in general until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period ( 907-960 AD ).

* 1053 – The New History of the Five Dynasties by Chinese official Ouyang Xiu is completed.

In China, the Han Dynasty is replaced by the Jin Dynasty and later the Tang Dynasty until the 10th century sees renewed fragmentation in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.

The Tang Dynasty (; ; Middle Chinese: Dâng ) ( June 18, 618 – June 1, 907 ) was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.

* Later Jin Dynasty ( Five Dynasties ) ( 936-947 ) ( 後晉 ), one of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China.

* The Later Liang Dynasty is founded by Zhu Wen, the first of northern China's Five Dynasties.

** the Later Han Dynasty and the Northern Han kingdom and the Southern Han kingdom of the Period of the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms

The Song Dynasty (; Wade-Giles: Sung Ch ' ao ; ) was a ruling dynasty in China between 960 and 1279 ; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty.

Emperor Taizu of Song ( r. 960 – 976 ) unified China through conquering other lands during his reign, ending the upheaval of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.

By the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period it was called Jiangning ( 江寧 ); in the Southern Song Dynasty the name of Jiankang was revived.

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The Five Dynasties:

Thus, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms ensued.

This is the official end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

In the waning years of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the region was ruled by Zhou Xingfeng.

Seven stories are inspired by a nursery rhyme: And Then There Were None by Ten Little Indians ; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ; Five Little Pigs by This Little Piggy ; Crooked House by There Was a Crooked Man ; A Pocket Full of Rye by Sing a Song of Sixpence ; Hickory Dickory Dock by Hickory Dickory Dock, and Three Blind Mice by Three Blind Mice.

Ruth Brown on the Atlantic label, placed hits in the top 5 every year from 1951 through 1954: " Teardrops from My Eyes ", " Five, Ten, Fifteen Hours ", "( Mama ) He Treats Your Daughter Mean " and " What a Dream ".

* Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy: A Consideration of the Rosary by J. Neville Ward ( Doubleday, 1973 ); revised as Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy: Meditations on the Rosary ( Seabury Classics, 2005 )-an ecumenical Methodist minister's book on the Rosary.

( 1988 ) " Five Hides in Ten Counties: a Contribution to the Domesday Regression Debate ", in: The Economic History Review, New series, Vol.

Ten years later, Troughton overcame some reluctance to reprise his role and agreed to appear in the 20th anniversary special The Five Doctors at the request of series producer John Nathan-Turner.

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Cathay: The Five Kingdoms covers the lands of Cathay ( Far East ).

* Margulis, L., Dolan, Delisle, K., Lyons, C. Diversity of Life: The Illustrated Guide to the Five Kingdoms.

* Margulis, Lynn, and Karlene V. Schwartz, 1997, Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth, W. H.

It includes the Thyatian Empire, which could be compared to Byzantine Empire ; the Grand Duchy of Karameikos ( which includes the town of Threshold, the default setting of many classic D & D adventures ), comparable to medieval southeastern Europe ; the Principalities of Glantri, which is similar to medieval western Europe, ruled by wizard-princes ; the Ethengar Khanate, a Mongol-like society ; the merchant-run Republic of Darokin, which is based somewhat loosely on the mercantile states of Medieval Italy ; the Emirates of Ylaruam which have an Arabic flavor ; the Heldannic Territories, ruled by an order of religious Knights devoted to the Immortal Vanya, similar to the Teutonic Knights ; the Atruaghin Clans, which have an Amerindian feel ; the nation of Sind, based on India during the rule of the Mughals ; the Northern Reaches Kingdoms of Ostland, Vestland, the Soderfjord Jarldoms, based on Scandinavian kingdoms at various periods of history ; the Dwarven nation of Rockhome ; the elven Kingdom of Alfheim ; the Halfling lands of the Five Shires ; and the Alphatian Empire, ruled by wizards and other spellcasters.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms ( AD 907 – 960 ), a book called the Records of the Unworldly and the Strange written by Chinese author Tao Gu in about 950 stated:

The King of Wu-Yue in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period was often known as the " Dragon King " or the " Sea Dragon King " because of his extensive hydro-engineering schemes which " tamed " the sea.

* Later Zhou Dynasty ( 951 – 960 ), during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period

spray fire device ) was a Chinese piston flamethrower that used a substance similar to gasoline or naphtha, invented around 919 AD during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.

Chinese classic texts, or Chinese canonical texts, () today often refer to the pre-Qin Chinese texts, especially the Neo-Confucian titles of Four Books and Five Classics ( 四書五經 ), a selection of short books and chapters from the voluminous collection called the Thirteen Classics.

The remaining Banners were known as " The Lower Five Banners " () and were commanded by hereditary Manchu princes descended from Nurhachi's immediate family, known informally as the " Iron Cap Princes " ().

He then combined the titles of the earlier Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors into his new name: Shi Huangdi () or " First Emperor ".

* The term Huangdi () comes from the mythical Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors Era (), from which the two terms " Sovereign " and " Emperor " ( huang 皇 and di 帝 ) are extracted.

The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors () were a group of semi-mythological rulers and culture heroes from ancient China during the period circa 2852 BC to 2070 BC.

In Shanghai and northern China, a " Five-Colored Flag " () ( Five Races Under One Union flag ) was used of five horizontal stripes representing the five major nationalities of China: the Han ( red ), the Manchu ( yellow ), the Mongol ( blue ), the Hui ( white ), and the Tibetan ( black ).

Li Houzhu () ( 937 – 978 ), also known as Houzhu of Southern Tang ( 南唐後主, literally " the latter lord of Southern Tang "), personal name Li Yu ( 李煜 ), né Li Congjia ( 李從嘉 ), courtesy name Chongguang ( 重光 ; pinyin: chòngguāng ), posthumously known as Prince of Wu ( 吳王 ), was the last ruler of the Southern Tang Kingdom from 961 to 975 during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.

The Northern Han kingdom () is a state of the Ten Kingdoms in the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

* Canticle Five — The Prayer of Isaiah ()

* The Five Flavors ()

A native of the present-day Yancheng District () City of Luohe () in Henan Province, Xu Shen was a renowned Confucianist scholar who specialized in the Five Classics, and wrote the Wujing yiyi ( " Differing Meanings in the Five Classics ").

Shun () or Di Shun ( 帝舜 ) was a 23rd-22nd century BC legendary leader of ancient China, among the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, whose half-century of rule was said to be one of the longest in Chinese history.

Caodong school () is a Chinese Zen Buddhist sect, one of the Five Houses of Chán.

The two walls form a fortified enclosure, called the Brachionion or Brachiolion (" bracelet ") of Blachernae () by the Byzantines, and known after the Ottoman capture of the city in Greek as the Pentapyrgion ( Πενταπύργιον, " Five Towers "), in allusion to the Yedikule ( Gk.

Five years later, also on June 1, the Jackson dock () opened as well as a railway connecting West Hartlepool to Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool.

The Later Liang () ( June 1, 907 – 923 ) was one of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China.

* Below the Five Old Men Peak is the White Deer Grotto Academy, named after the poet Li Bo () ( not to be confused with the famous poet Li Bai ), who raised white deer there.

* Five Minarets in New York () ( 2010 )

Chang Cheh () ( February 10, 1923 – June 22, 2002 ) was Shaw Brothers Studio's best known and most prolific film director, with such films as the Five Venoms, the Brave Archer ( based on the works of Jin Yong ), the The One-Armed Swordsman, and other classics of wuxia and kung fu film.

The Jiedushi () were regional military governors in China during the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.