Wang named himself President of the Executive Yuan and Chairman of the National Government ( not the same ' National Government ' as Chiang's ), and led a surprisingly large minority of anti-Chiang / anti-Communist Chinese against his old comrades.

Not surprisingly, due to the population size of the peasantry, these are some of the most common Chinese surnames.

Further, recent archaeological evidence provides verification of astronomical events, and comparison with Chinese and Japanese records have shown the Samguk Sagi to be surprisingly accurate.

As part of its effort to modernize, it began an online edition in 1997, and the web bulletin forums, such as the Strengthening Nation Forum in the Chinese edition, has been known for their surprisingly candid content.

It has been described by Princeton University Press ( regarding the Roy translation ) as " a landmark in the development of the narrative art form-not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world-historical context ... noted for its surprisingly modern technique " and " with the possible exception of The Tale of Genji ( ca.

Structurally taut, full of classical Chinese poetry and surprisingly mature even as early fiction, it also deals with larger sociological issues — such as the role of women in ancient Chinese society, and sexual politics — while functioning concurrently as a novel of manners and an allegory of human corruption.

Not surprisingly, due to his wayward and flirtatious nature, he was reduced to poverty where he lived to be an old and forgotten man well into his late 70s, making a living as a Chinese opera stand-in and living in the cramped quarters of the opera set itself.

William's account provided an extensive description of the city's walls, markets and temples, and the separate quarters for Muslim and Chinese craftsmen among a surprisingly cosmopolitan population.

His wife Enid ( Barbara Murray ) discovers a Chinese figurine that says it will grant three wishes to whoever possesses it ; Enid decides to wish for a fortune ; surprisingly, it comes true, however, Ralph is killed on the way to his lawyer's office to collect it.

Not surprisingly, most studies of Hong, both in Chinese and in English, focus on his esoteric writings, such as the " Inner Chapters " and Shenxian zhuan.

After the 1990 Montenegrin parliamentary election in early December resulted in a remarkable victory for the Montenegrin League of Communists ( 83 parliament seats out of the total 125 ), Milo was, on February 15, 1991, somewhat surprisingly, appointed by President Momir Bulatović ( with the blessings of then Serbian president Slobodan Milošević ) as Prime Minister of the first democratically elected government.

Although most of the members of the community signed a document issued by Hasan Ali Shah summarizing the practices of the Ismailis, a group of dissenting Khojas surprisingly asserted that the community had always been Sunni.

Somewhat surprisingly, given their wide range of practical uses, mathematicians have not yet proven that in three dimensions solutions always exist ( existence ), or that if they do exist, then they do not contain any singularity ( smoothness ).

Hines always liked to promote and, often surprisingly quietly, to accompany singers most notably, in the Grand Terrace days, Billy Eckstine:

While the resulting games aren't always the best, the DoZ has turned several interesting and innovative entries, such as an SMZX Mode 3 sprite-based sidescroller, some surprisingly long adventure games, a pixel-perfect sidescroller, and an 80x50 half-char side-scrolling shooter.

Hockey commentators alternatively criticized Crawford's decision ( Bourque, like the other four Canadian shooters, failed to score ) and praised it on the grounds that Bourque was one of hockey's most accurate shooters at the time and Gretzky had always been surprisingly mediocre on breakaways.

Many feared additional cutbacks and obstacles imposed by the Novi Sad city authority, especially when it comes to always contentious issues like municipal funding or fortress usage, but, perhaps surprisingly, no skullduggery occurred whatsoever.

The Nigerian president and Chair of the AU, Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ, has sought to negotiate between the incumbent government and the opposition to establish a coalition government, but surprisingly rejected an AU Commission appointment of former Zambian president, Kenneth Kaunda, as special AU envoy to Togo ( and ).

However, the resistance of the local people was surprisingly strong and Ruthenian speakers from this area rejected the Orthodox faith.

It is widely rejected that his mother acted as regent, but she was surprisingly influential for the time period.

Early community votes dealt with use a recreational drugs at school ( rejected ), smoking during class ( eventually banned on the third floor only ), world poverty and debt ( no resolution ) and student apathy ( a surprisingly large meeting with no real solution ).

While this is intended as a clever con trick, the machine, surprisingly, works, sending Blackadder and Baldrick back to the time of the dinosaurs, where they manage to cause the extinction of the dinosaurs, through the use of Baldrick's best, worst and only pair of underpants as a weapon against a hungry T. Rex.

Not surprisingly, crannogs have useful defensive properties, although there appears to be more significance to prehistoric use than simple defense as very few weapons or evidence for destruction appear in excavations of prehistoric crannogs.

However, this political restriction is less confining than it may first appear in that the Marxist historical framework is surprisingly flexible, and a rather simple matter to modify an alternative historical theory to use language that at least does not challenge the Marxist interpretation of history.

A slightly earlier, surprisingly reliable version of the same concept was to bundle a sequence of audio digital " signal " and " no signal " information ( i. e. " sound " and " silence ") on magnetic cassette tape for use with early home computers.

Among these were some surprisingly sophisticated principles, and a modern mathematician might be hard put to derive some of them without the use of calculus.

While the original proofs of Hadamard and de la Vallée-Poussin are long and elaborate, and later proofs have introduced various simplifications through the use of Tauberian theorems but remained difficult to digest, a surprisingly short proof was discovered in 1980 by American mathematician Donald J. Newman.

The overall effect is that there is surprisingly little difference in overall performance between SSTOs that use hydrogen and those that use denser fuels, except that hydrogen vehicles may be rather more expensive to develop and buy.

A discovery reported in 2009 of spun, dyed, and knotted wild flax fibers in a prehistoric cave in the Republic of Georgia shows that the plant was already in use by humans at the surprisingly early date of 30, 000 B. C .. New Zealand flax is not related to flax but was named after it, as both plants are used to produce fibers.

Never built, this vessel would use repeated nuclear explosions to propel itself and was considered surprisingly practical.

", or occasionally, " I've had a lot of ha-RASSments lately " ( perhaps surprisingly, most people now use this pronunciation, but this is probably more because of American influence ).

When a transcontinental or worldwide path is open on a particular frequency, digital, SSB and Morse code communication is possible using surprisingly low transmission powers, often of the order of tens of watts, provided suitable antennas are in use at both ends and that there is little or no man-made or natural interference.

Binaural recordings use a different microphone technique to encode direction directly as phase, with very little amplitude difference below 2 kHz, often using a dummy head, and can produce a surprisingly lifelike spatial impression through headphones.

Reviewers point out that although Princess Tutu is nominally a magical girl series, it is more of a " fairy tale set to ballet with a few magical girl elements mixed in ," and its use of dance in lieu of violence to solve conflicts carries " surprisingly effective emotional appeal.

Several recommender systems for music already exist, but surprisingly few are based upon MIR techniques, instead making use of similarity between users or laborious data compilation.

By 1855 there were numerous types of inflatable rubber boats in use, some made by Goodyear in the U. S. and other surprisingly modern looking boats by the Thomas Hancock Company in Britain.

In addition, detection of successful ignition of the igniter is surprisingly difficult, some systems use thin wires that are cut by the flames, pressure sensors have also seen some use.

Today, a surprisingly large number of these simple, rugged signals remain in place more than six decades after their use in new installations was outlawed, though that number is rapidly dwindling as crossings are upgraded and spare parts become scarce.

The training made use of inflatable boats and included surprisingly little swimming.

The first documented use of basileus Rhomaíōn in official context comes, surprisingly, from the Persians: in a letter sent to Emperor Maurice ( r. 582 – 602 ) by Chosroes II, Maurice is addressed in Greek as basileus Rhomaíōn instead of the habitual Persian appellation qaisar i Rum (" Caesar of the Romans "), while the Persian ruler refers to himself correspondingly as Persōn basileus, thereby dropping his own claim to the Greek equivalent of his formal title, basileus basileōn (" king of kings ").

The same study shows that in the outdoors group, surprisingly little use is made of the extra space and facilities such as perches – it was proposed that the main reason for this was leg weakness as 80 per cent of the birds had a detectable gait abnormality at seven weeks of age.

Miller was famous for varying his bowling to bemuse batsmen: he made sparing use of slower deliveries and would often adjust his run-up, surprisingly bowling his fastest deliveries from a short run.

" Turan went on to praise the ensemble cast and director Robinson, who is " surprisingly adept at creating tension at appropriate moments " and " makes good use of the script's air of clever cheerfulness ".