In his native Cologne, where his mother taught him to play the piano, he was able to read notes before he learned the alphabet.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

Only a native New Yorker could believe that New York is now or ever was a literary center.

In this world-wide conscription of men, minds, and machines, Prokofieff was recalled to his native land.

Down in Concord, New Hampshire, was a flier in the right place at the right time: Robert S. Fogg, a native New Englander, had been a World War 1, flying instructor, barnstormer, and one of the original planners of the Concord Airport.

Finally, if the mission of the Trial was to convict anti-Semitism, how could it have failed to post before the world the contrasting fates of the countries in which the Final Solution was aided by native Jew-haters -- i.e., Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia -- and those in which it met the obstacle of human solidarity -- Denmark, Holland, Italy, Bulgaria, France??

He was a member of the Oakland City Methodist Church and a native of Atlanta.

Demonstrating the primitive African rhythmic backgrounds of the Blues was Michael Babatunde Olatunji, who plays such native drums as the konga and even does a resounding job slapping his own chest.

All around the Mediterranean Sea, Asia Minor, northern India, and Tibet, Hebrew was the native tongue.

Then there was North America, where American was the native speech of all except the twenty descendants of French-Canadians living on the Hudson Bay Preserve.

In Canada, Jesuit missionaries such as Fathers LeClercq, Le Jeune and Sagard, in the 17th century, provide the oldest ethnographic records of native tribes in what was then the Dominion of Canada.

His father was a native of Salisbury, Connecticut.

The doctrine that no man can cast off his native allegiance without the consent of his sovereign was early abandoned in the United States, and Chief Justice John Rutledge also declared in Talbot v. Janson, " a man may, at the same time, enjoy the rights of citizenship under two governments.

Iron is usually found as iron ore on Earth, except for one deposit of native iron in Greenland, which was used by the Inuit people.

Maize was also an important crop for these people, and was used for the production of chicha, important to Andean native people.

Rebuilt by the emperor Justin I after an earthquake in the 6th century, it became Justinopolis ( 525 ); but the old native name persisted, and when Thoros I, king of Lesser Armenia, made it his capital early in the 12th century, it was known as Anazarva.

A native New Englander, Amos Bronson Alcott was born in Wolcott, Connecticut ( only recently renamed from " Farmingbury ") on November 29, 1799.

From 796 until his death he was Abbot of the great monastery of St. Martin of Tours where he founded a library by obtaining copies of books from libraries in his native England.

It was in this reign that an important change in the government of the Danubian Principalities was introduced: previously, the Porte had appointed Hospodars, usually native Moldavian and Wallachian boyars, to administer those provinces ; after the Russian campaign of 1711, during which Peter the Great found an ally in Moldavia Prince Dimitrie Cantemir, the Porte began overtly deputizing Phanariote Greeks in that region, and extended the system to Wallachia after Prince Stefan Cantacuzino established links with Eugene of Savoy.

He studied theology and canon law, and after acting as parish priest in his native diocese for twelve years was sent by the pope to Canada as a bishop's chaplain.

Ealdred was one of a few native Englishmen who William appears to have trusted, and his death led to fewer attempts to integrate Englishmen into the administration, although such efforts did not entirely stop.

When the Northern Expedition was complete, Kuomintang Generals led by Chiang Kai-shek paid tribute to Dr. Sun's soul in heaven with a sacrificial ceremony at the Xiangshan Temple in Beijing in July 1928.

When the Northern Expedition was complete, Kuomintang Generals led by Chiang Kaishek paid tribute to Dr. Sun's soul in heaven with a sacrificial ceremony at the Xiangshan Temple in Beijing in July 1928, among the Kuomintang Generals present were the Muslim Generals Bai Chongxi and Ma Fuxiang.

In 1152, during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 AD ), it was under the jurisdiction of the new Xiangshan County.

In 1582 a land lease was signed, and annual rent was paid to Xiangshan County.

Xiangshan, Sun's hometown in Guangdong, was renamed Zhongshan in his honor, and there is a hall dedicated to his memory at the Temple of Azure Clouds in Beijing.

Sun, the founding father of the Republic of China, was born in Cuiheng village in Nanlang Township of what was then Xiangshan County.

After his death in 1925, Xiangshan was renamed Zhongshan in his honor.

Prior to the 20 < sup > th </ sup > century, Zhongshan was generally known as Xiangshan or Heung-san (), in reference to the many flowers that grew in the mountains nearby.

In 1082, during the Northern Song Dynasty, a fortified settlement called Xiangshan was founded in the area, marking the first official use of the name by which it would be known throughout most of its modern history.

* Zhongshan, city in Guangdong whose former name was Xiangshan County

An island in a bay where three rivers emptied into the sea, Hsiang-shan Island ( or Xiangshan Dao ; 香山島 ) was part of the river delta, just separated from the continent by the distributaries in the delta, until it became a peninsula sometime during the 17th century, but was still separated from the mainland by waterways.

Administratively part of the Baoan County and Dongguan County in history, a Xiangshan Township ( 香山鎮 ) was created in the 8th century ( during the Tang Dynasty ) within the Dongguan County, at the present-day Shanchang ( 山场 ) of Zhuhai.

Yang was born in Shanghai on 30 June 1929 to an influential family which had roots in what was Nanguan in Xiangshan County of Guangnan East Circuit ( now Zhongshan, Guangdong Province ) since the early twelfth century, although they had resided in Shanghai since the early nineteenth century.

Sun was born in Xiangshan ( now Zhongshan ), Guangdong, China.

Extension from Hsinchu SIC to Xiangshan IC was finished in February 1996.

The first portion of the expressway was between Xiangshan, Hsinchu and Baishantun.

It was used to connect the northern section National Highway No. 3 at Xiangshan IC.

Xiangshan County was renamed to Zhongshan apparently as an honour.

The College was officially recognized, with its diplomas marked with the official stamp of the Guangdong provincial government.

China was linked to the international telecommunications network by the installation of communications satellite ground stations and the construction of coaxial cables linking Guangdong Province with Hong Kong and Macau.

* The Great Clearance was spread to Guangdong.

Meanwhile, in the provinces of Fujian and Guangdong in China, there was a surge in emigration as a result of the poverty and ruin caused by the Taiping rebellion.

The city of Taishan in Guangdong province was the source for many of the economic migrants.

Shantou was taken on 6 November, and by the end of 1925, the Nationalists controlled all of Guangdong province.

Zhou's work in the CCP Guangdong Regional Committee Military Section was typical of his covert activities in the period.

They preyed voraciously on China's junk trade, which flourished in Fujian and Guangdong and was a vital artery of Chinese commerce.

It was colonized by the Dutch in the 17th century, followed by an influx of Han Chinese including Hakka immigrants from areas of Fujian and Guangdong of mainland China, across the Taiwan Strait.

However, Sun Quan was able to persuade the warlords in present-day Guangdong, Guangxi, and northern Vietnam to submit to him, and they became part of his domain.

During the late Ming dynasty, due to political chaos, there was increased migration from southern Fujian and eastern Guangdong to Taiwan.

In 1655 the " Frontier Shift " was imposed in Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shandong.

Chop suey is widely believed to have been invented in America by Chinese immigrants, but in fact comes from Taishan ( Toisan ), a district of Guangdong Province ( Canton ), which was the home of many of the early Chinese immigrants to the U. S. The Hong Kong doctor Li Shu-fan reported that he knew it in Taishan in the 1890s.

During his exile in the United States, Liang Qichao, a Guangdong ( Canton ) native, wrote in 1903 that there existed in the United States a food item called chop suey which was popularly served by Chinese restaurateurs, but which local Chinese people did not eat.

Upon learning that a Song invasion was imminent, the Lý army and navy totaling about 100, 000 men under the command of Lý Thường Kiệt, Tông Đản used amphibious operations to preemptively destroy three Song military installations at Yong Zhou, Qin Zhou, and Lian Zhou in present-day Guangdong and Guangxi, and killed 100, 000 Chinese.

In 1278 Wen Tianxiang, who had fought against the Yuan in Guangdong and Jiangxi, was captured by Wang Weiyi in Haifeng County, eliminating all the Song land forces nearby.

Mongols conquered China fully in 1279, and under their rule the province of Huguang was established, covering Hubei, Hunan, and parts of Guangdong and Guangxi.

In 2011, the nominal GDP for Shandong was 4. 50 trillion yuan ( US $ 711 billion ), ranking third in the country ( behind Guangdong and Jiangsu ).

Wong was born on Mount Xiqiao, Foshan, Guangdong, during the reign of the Daoguang Emperor in the Qing Dynasty.

It was important for Chiang to have Wang away from Guangdong while Chiang was in the process of expelling communists from the KMT because Wang was then the leader of the left wing of the KMT, notably sympathetic to communists and communism, and may have opposed Chiang if he had remained in China.

Yeh Mingchen was captured, and Bo-gui, the governor of Guangdong, surrendered.

Zhao's career was not especially notable before he emerged as a Party leader in Guangdong in the early 1950s.