Featuring vividly outlandish characters, bizarre situations, and equal parts suspense, slapstick, irony, satire, black humor and biting social commentary, Li ' l Abner is considered a classic of the genre.

Li ' l Abner has one odd design quirk that has puzzled readers for decades: the part in his hair always faces the viewer, no matter which direction Abner is facing.

Li ' l Abner also features a comic strip-within-the-strip: Fearless Fosdick is a parody of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy.

" Just about anything could be a target for Capp's satire — in one storyline Li ' l Abner is revealed to be the missing link between ape and man.

" One of the few strips ever taken seriously by students of American culture ," wrote Professor Berger, " Li ' l Abner is worth studying ... because of Capp's imagination and artistry, and because of the strip's very obvious social relevance.

As Li ' l Abner reached its peak years, and following the success of the Shmoos and other high moments in his work, Al Capp achieved a public profile that is still unparalleled in his profession, and arguably exceeded the fame of his strip.

Amblygonite is a fluorophosphate mineral, ( Li, Na ) AlPO < sub > 4 </ sub >( F, OH ), composed of lithium, sodium, aluminium, phosphate, fluoride and hydroxide.

Li Mu Bai ( Chow Yun-Fat ) is an accomplished Wudang swordsman.

Li Mu Bai is burdened with the responsibility for avenging his master's death, and turns his back on retirement to live up to this obligation.

The Compendium of Materia Medica is a pharmaceutical text written by Li Shizhen ( 1518 – 1593 AD ) during the Ming Dynasty of China.

The polyatomic ion C < sub > 3 </ sub >< sup > 4 –</ sup >, sometimes called sesquicarbide or allylenide, is found in Li < sub > 4 </ sub > C < sub > 3 </ sub > and Mg < sub > 2 </ sub > C < sub > 3 </ sub >.

The first encyclopedias in vernacular language were translations or abridgements of works in Latin. Among them the most famous is Li livre dou Trésor, written in French by

However, 2 + ions ( Be < sup > 2 +</ sup >) or even 1 + ( Li < sup >+</ sup >) show some polarizing power because their sizes are so small ( e. g., LiI is ionic but has some covalent bonding present ).

Li says that due to accumulation of karma the human spirit upon death will reincarnate over and over again, until the karma is paid off or eliminated through cultivation, or the person is destroyed due to the bad deeds he has done.

Lithium ( ) ( from lithos, Greek for stone ) is a soft, silver-white metal with symbol Li and atomic number 3.

They speak their own Hlai language, a member of the Tai – Kadai language family, but most can understand or speak Hainanese and Mandarin — and it is also common for Li people to learn and speak Cantonese because many Li in Hainan relocate to Cantonese-speaking areas in southern mainland China near Hainan such as Guangzhou and Hong Kong.

This is shown in the homonuclear diatomic MO diagrams for H < sub > 2 </ sub >, He < sub > 2 </ sub >, and Li < sub > 2 </ sub >, all of which containing symmetric orbitals.

Li Guojie, chairman of Dawning Information Industry Company and director and academician of the Institute of Computing Technology, said research and development of the Dawning 6000 is expected to be completed in two years.

: Y is Al, Mg, or Fe or less commonly Mn, Cr, Ti, Li, etc.

The " old style " verse ( gushi ) is less formally strict than the jintishi, or regulated verse, which, despite the name " new style " verse actually had its theoretical basis laid as far back to Shen Yue, in the 5th or 6th century, although not considered to have reached its full development until the time of Chen Zi ' ang ( 661-702 ) A good example of a poet known for his gushi poems is Li Bai.

In a handwritten note on a reprint of his 1838 paper " Sur l ' usage des séries infinies dans la théorie des nombres ", which he mailed to Carl Friedrich Gauss, Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet conjectured ( under a slightly different form appealing to a series rather than an integral ) that an even better approximation to π ( x ) is given by the offset logarithmic integral function Li ( x ), defined by

Sima's famous letter to his friend Ren An about his sufferings during the Li Ling Affair and his perseverance in writing Shiji is today regarded as a highly admired example of literary prose style, studied widely in China even today.

Lyric poetry advanced far more in China than in Europe prior to 1000, as multiple new forms developed in the Han, Tang, and Song dynasties: perhaps the greatest poets of this era in Chinese literature were Li Bai and Du Fu.

Conceptually based on Siberia, or perhaps specifically on Birobidzhan, Capp's icy hellhole made its first appearance in Li ' l Abner in April 1946.

In that same year, Emperor Xuan restored posthumous titles to his grandparents and parents ( although, perhaps out of respect to Emperor Zhao's memory, Crown Prince Ju received the rather unflattering posthumous name " Li " ( 戾, unrepenting )) and reburied them with honor.

The composition of the cosmic rays themselves also indicates that they have suffered spallation before reaching Earth, because the proportion of light elements such as Li, B, and Be in them exceeds average cosmic abundances ; these elements in the cosmic rays were evidently formed from spallation of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and perhaps silicon in the cosmic ray sources or during their lengthy travel here.

Asia ’ s second richest man, Li Ka Shing ( He is now first ), sent a personal condolence note to the bereaved family, offering words that perhaps best captured the essence of who Goh Tong was.

A resident of the island of Hama Higa, he was perhaps a student of the Chinese emissaries Zhang Xue Li and later Wanshu, who would have taught him techniques of chu ' an fa.

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

In 1928, Kuomintang generals Li Jing Lin, Zhang Zi Jiang, and Fung Zu Ziang organized a national martial arts tournament in China ; they did so to screen the best martial artists in order to begin building the Central Martial Arts Academy ( Zhongyang Guoshuguan ).

Cooled by the Peltier effect, this provides a cheap and convenient detector, although the liquid nitrogen cooled Si ( Li ) detector still has the best resolution ( i. e. ability to distinguish different photon energies ).

The best known track from Skullmonkeys is the " Li ' l Bonus Room " track, regarded by many in the video game industry as the single funniest track ever written for a video game.

Vinci's opere buffe, of which Li zite ' ngalera ( 1722 ) is generally regarded as the best, are full of life and spirit ; his opere serie, of which Didone Abbandonata ( Rome, 1728 ) and Artaserse ( Rome, 1730 ) are the most notable, have an incisive vigour and directness of dramatic expression praised by Charles Burney.

Even worse for Zeke, Li ' l Wolf's best friends are the Three Little Pigs themselves, and he constantly saves them from his father's appetite.

Sun Wukong later single-handedly defeated the Army of Heaven's 100, 000 celestial warriors-each fight an equivalent of a cosmic embodiment, including all 28 constellations, four heavenly kings, and Nezha, the son of Li Jiang Jun who proved himself worthy-and proved himself equal to the best of Heaven's generals, Erlang Shen.

Although he was best known in the West for his generally pro-modern stance and importance as a negotiator, Li antagonized the British with his support of Russia as a foil against Japanese expansionism in Manchuria and fell from favor with the Chinese after their loss in the 1894 Sino-Japanese War.

) The hapless general is really best known for being the namesake of the rousing showstopper in the popular Li ' l Abner musical, as sung by Marryin ' Sam and chorus.

Li ' l Abner lasted until November 13, 1977, when Capp retired with an apology to his fans for the recently declining quality of the strip, which he said had been the best he could manage due to advancing illness.

Li Hongzhang provides the best example of the delicate balance between regional power and dynastic loyalty.

During the next 10 years, Li acted as editor to several important publishing firms and periodicals, as well as composing the works which he is best known for – The Family ( 1931 ), The Love Trilogy Fog ( 1931 ), Rain ( 1933 ) and Lightning ( 1935 ), the novellas Autumn in Spring and A Dream of the Sea, the short story collection Mengya (“ Germination ”) and prose writings in Fuchou (" Vengeance ") and Shen, Gui, Ren (" Gods, Ghosts and Men ").

At the meeting Li Ru talked about Hua Xiong stating, " We have lost our best leader "; placing him above the likes of even the mighty Lü Bu.

She is best known for her hits " This Is Your Night ," " If You Could Read My Mind ," and " Sexual ( Li Da Di ).

* Spring Tieguanyin is harvested around Li Xia ( Start of Summer ) and has the best overall quality.

Estimations range from 110-207 ( Li 1974: 296, Mair 1994: 227 ) to 190-265 ( Veith 1996: 3 ); Lu and Needham ( 2002: 117 ) conclude that the " best estimate " is circa 145-208.

The best and most effective of these was Li Dingguo, who for five years was highly successful in enlarging Southern Ming territories in the southwest.

By this time, the Taiping's best military leader Li Xiucheng ( 李秀成 ), called Zhong Wang ( 忠王 ) or “ The Faithful King ”, dispatched 20, 000 troops downriver to break the siege, sending the Foreign Arms Corps fleeing back to the Songjiang area, where Ward's second-in-command, Henry Andres Burgevine, held the Corps briefly together, but it soon " ceased to function as an organized entity " ( Smith, 34 )

Credit for the concept of training Chinese in Western military tactics and arming them with the best available weaponry is sometimes given to Ward, other times to Li Hongzhang, a local Imperial commander “ ordered to cooperate with — and keep an eye on — Ward's unruly contingent ” and other times to Burgevine, who according to some began the training while Ward was recuperating, having been inspired by the sight of a Chinese gun crew acting under French direction.

According to Yahoo Korea, Lin was voted best actress with 17, 358 votes followed by Fan Bingbing, Li Kun Wang and Yao Chen.

In actuality, Xiangyi's best friend Li Yiqiao is the real Jojo.

A rivalry develops between Yanzu and his best friend, Li Jie, who likes Xiangyi.

Babolat () is a French tennis, badminton and squash equipment company, best known for its strings and tennis racquets which are used by several top players such as Rafael Nadal, Kim Clijsters, Andy Roddick, Leander Paes, Fernando González, Igor Andreev, Fabio Fognini, Nicolás Lapentti, Samantha Stosur, Robby Ginepri, Li Na, Dinara Safina, Agnieszka Radwańska, Santiago Giraldo, Carlos Moyà, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Francesca Schiavone.

Primarily cast as the villain in the movies he stars in, he is best known for his performances as Bolo in Enter the Dragon and as Chong Li in Bloodsport, and also for his many appearances in martial arts B-movies.