Many of Ford's major film roles came to him by default through unusual circumstances: he won the role of Han Solo while reading lines for other actors, was cast as Indiana Jones because Tom Selleck was not available, and took the role of Jack Ryan supposedly due to Alec Baldwin's fee demands, although Baldwin disputes this ( Baldwin had previously played the role in The Hunt for Red October ).

Meng Huo made up stories about Shu Han giving the tribes impossible demands, thus the tribes became angry at Shu and joined the rebellion as well.

Later, Han summons Williams and accuses him of attacking the guards the previous night.

Han refuses to give him permission to leave ; Williams defies Han ; the guards arrive ; Williams takes them out and then starts to fight with Han.

Han seems easily to dominate in the struggle, and Williams gets pushed into a room where doped-up women laugh at him.

As Williams gets weaker, Han reveals that one of his hands is made of iron.

When Roper seems reluctant, Han shows him the mutilated corpse of Williams, hinting that Roper will face the same fate if he refuses to cooperate.

In 2008, Han along with Leon Jay Williams sang the Korean and Chinese versions of Olympic theme song " Friends.

Other Lhévinne students include James Levine, now Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera and the Boston Symphony, John Williams, composer and conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, pianists John Browning, Walter Buczynski, Olegna Fuschi, Tong-Il Han, Anthony & Joseph Paratore, Daniel Pollack, Misha Dichter, Edward Auer, Santos Ojeda, Joel Ryce-Menuhin and many others including several present-day teachers at the Juilliard School.

The Sisters tell him that he must go with them and wear a Rada ' Han, a magical collar, in order to control his headaches and the gift.

In the meantime, Han and Lando leave the Falcon to meet with a fellow smuggler who is supposed to tell them the location of Talon Karrde's operations.

After that, Leia calls Han from Coruscant to tell him that Admiral Ackbar has been arrested on charges of treason.

Announcing that O ' Hara's dishonourable attack has caused him to lose face very badly, Han ends the day's matches.

Han takes Roper on a tour of his underground base and invites him to be his representative for his heroin smuggling operations in the United States.

Roper refuses and Han sends him to fight Bolo instead.

Amidst the chaos, Han attempts to sneak away, only to have Lee follow him.

Emperor Han Wudi attributed the defeat to Li Ling, with all government officials subsequently condemning him for it.

Chinese ceramics | A pottery miniature Chinese palaces | of a palace made during the Han Dynasty ; as a palace attendant, Zhang Heng had personal access to Emperor Shun and the right to escort him

Zhang read many of the great works of history in his day and claimed he had found ten instances where the Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian ( 145 – 90 BC ) and the Book of Han by Ban Gu ( AD 32 – 92 ) differed from other ancient texts that were available to him.

* Although the usurpation of Wang Mang and the Chimei Rebellion are behind him, Emperor Guangwu now faces a new threat to the Han Dynasty: the Rebellion of Gongsun Shu in the Sichuan province.

Lucas was eventually won over by Ford's portrayal, and cast him as Han Solo.

Early on, Han felt neglected and misunderstood by his father, as the elder van Meegeren strictly forbade his artistic development, and constantly derided him.

In later Star Wars literature she marries Han Solo, her romantic interest in the original films, and has three children with him, whose names are Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin.

She later helps with the evacuation of Hoth during an Imperial attack, remaining at her station until Han forces her to leave with him.

Initially reluctant to believe him, Leia realizes that Luke speaks the truth and joins Han Solo in leading the Rebels in battle on Endor as the Rebel Fleet battle the second Death Star.

Palpatine does eventually find her, but Han accidentally shoots him in the back just as he is about to possess the baby.

In Vector Prime, Chewbacca's death sends Han into a deep depression, causing a large rift between him and Leia, culminating in his walking out of the marriage after an argument.

Leia tries to reason with Jacen at first, but ultimately disowns him after he commits a series of atrocities, and tacitly agrees to Han and Jaina's plan to hunt down and kill him.

Confucianism was particularly strong during the Han Dynasty, whose greatest thinker was Dong Zhongshu, who integrated Confucianism with the thoughts of the Zhongshu School and the theory of the Five Elements.

The identity of the high-ranking personage who lived luxuriously in Chinese style, far outside of the borders of the Han Empire, has remained a matter for discussion ever since.

From the late 17th century onwards a whole body of literature known as the Han Kitab developed amongst the Hui Muslims of China who infused Islamic thought with Confucianism.

Confucianism was particularly strong during the Han Dynasty, whose greatest thinker was Dong Zhongshu, who integrated Confucianism with the thoughts of the Zhongshu School and the theory of the Five Elements.

For example, it denies Yue Fei, a " Han Chinese " who fought for China against the Jurchens, a place as a " hero of China ".

The " Heshang Gong Version " is named after the legendary Heshang Gong ( " Riverside Sage ") who supposedly lived during the reign ( 202-157 BC ) of Emperor Wen of Han.

His involvement in the Schröder House exerted a strong influence on Truus ' daughter, Han Schröder, who became one of the first female architects in the Netherlands.

During this time, there were exceptional landscape painters like Dong Yuan ( refer to this article for an example of his artwork ), and those who painted more vivid and realistic depictions of domestic scenes, like Gu Hongzhong and his Night Revels of Han Xizai.

During the Han dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, who was mayor of Changsha near the end of the 2nd century AD, wrote a Treatise on Cold Damage, which contains the earliest known reference to the Neijing Suwen.

Lu Han, a Kuomintang official in Nanjing, who was originally from Yunnan, was contacted by the VNQDD, and the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee and Military made direct contact with VNQDD for the first time, the party was reestablished in Nanjing with KMT help.

The two warriors are the historical general Guan Yu from the late Han Dynasty and the bodhisattva Skanda, who appears in the Chinese classical novel Fengshen Bang.

He also joined another revolutionary organisation, The Society for the Study of Wang Fuzhi ( Chuan-shan Hsüeh-she ) which had been founded by a number of Changsha literati who wished to emulate Wang Fuzhi ( 1619 – 1692 ), a philosopher who had become a symbol of Han resistance to Manchu invasion.

This was Han Feizi who was famous as the foremost proponent of the School of Law, otherwise known as the philosophy of Legalism.

In contrast to the Ming system, however, Qing ethnic policy dictated that appointments were split between Manchu noblemen and Han officials who had passed the highest levels of the state examinations.

Only Manchus belonging to the Upper Three Banners, and selected Han Chinese who had passed the highest level of martial exams were qualified to serve as the emperor's personal bodyguards.

The Qing Dynasty was founded not by the Han Chinese who form the majority of the Chinese population, but the Manchus, who are today an ethnic minority of China.

While the Manchus followed the governmental structure of the preceding Ming dynasty, their ethnic policy dictated that appointments were split between Manchu noblemen and Han Chinese officials who had passed the highest levels of the state examinations, and because of the small number of Manchus, this insured that a large fraction of them would be government officials.

Emperor Han Wudi interpreted Sima ’ s defence of Li Ling as an attack on his brother-in-law, who had also fought against the Xiongnu without much success, and sentenced Sima to death.

This again is contrasted with the Han, who adopted skills like stir-frying and stewing.

The Hui are descendants of Arabs and Han Chinese who intermarried, and they share the Islamic religion with the Uyghur in Hunan.

His grandfather, Zhang Kan, had been governor of a commandery, and one of the leaders who supported the restoration of the Han Dynasty by Emperor Guangwu ( r. 25 – 57 ), following the death of the usurper Wang Mang and his short-lived Xin Dynasty ( AD 9 – 23 ).