* Sun Ce, elder brother of founder of the Wu Kingdom, Sun Quan ( d. 200 )

* Taishi Ci, first a general under Kong Rong, then Liu Yao, and later under Sun Ce and Sun Quan ( d. 206 )

* Sun Ce and Zhou Yu wed the Qiao sisters.

* Sun Ce, 25, elder brother of the founder of Wu Kingdom, Sun Quan ( b. 175 )

* Lady Wu, wife of Sun Jian, mother of Sun Ce, Sun Quan and Lady Sun

* Ling Cao, general under Sun Ce and father of Ling Tong ( killed by pirate Gan Ning )

Further south the young warlord Sun Ce, taking over after the untimely death of Sun Jian, was establishing his rule in the lower Yangtze, albeit as a subordinate of Yuan Shu.

In the south, Sun Ce, then an independent general under the service of Yuan Shu, defeated the warlords of Yang Province, including Liu Yao, Wang Lang, and Yan Baihu.

The move, however, was a strategic blunder, as it drew the ire of many warlords across the land, including Yuan Shu's own subordinate Sun Ce, who had advised Yuan Shu not to make such a move.

Cao Cao issued orders to Sun Ce to attack Yuan Shu.

Sun Ce complied, but first convinced Cao Cao to form a coalition against Yuan Shu, of which Liu Bei and Lü Bu were members.

In 200, after winning a decisive battle against Liu Biao at Sha County and putting down the rebellions of Xu Gong and others, Sun Ce was struck by an arrow and fatally wounded.

* Sun Jian, father of Sun Ce, Sun Quan, and Lady Sun, ( established Eastern Wu )

His older brother Sun Ce carved out a warlord state in the region, based on his own followers and a number of local clan allegiances.

When Sun Ce was assassinated by the retainers of Xu Gong in 200, the eighteen-year-old Sun Quan inherited the lands southeast of the Yangtze River from his brother.

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Sun Yat-sen's career was at its lowest point then, with most of his old Revolutionary Alliance comrades refusing to join him in the exiled Chinese Revolutionary Party.

His father moved his family to France and then Germany while Sun Yat-sen was struggling against contentious warlords in China.

One of his most memorable exchanges on HIGNFY occurred when he scathingly joked to fellow guest Piers Morgan that the Daily Mirror was now, thanks to Morgan ( then its editor ), almost as good as The Sun.

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Since there are many stars older than the Sun, or since intelligent life might have evolved earlier elsewhere, the question then becomes why the galaxy has not been colonized already.

It mainly heats up because the Sun warms the ground inside, which then warms the air in the greenhouse.

Doing this by brute force – accelerating in the shortest route to the destination and then, if it is farther from the Sun, decelerating to match the planet's speed – would require an extremely large amount of fuel.

Chiang Ching-kuo then arrested Sun Li-jen, charging him of conspiring with the American CIA of plotting to overthrow Chiang Kaishek and the Kuomintang, Sun was placed under house arrest in 1955.

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The first is a ritual designed for the individual, which involves sacrificing a " Cake of Light " ( a type of bread that serves as the host ) to Ra ( i. e. the Sun ) and infusing a second Cake with the adept's own blood ( either real or symbolic, in a gesture reflecting the myth of the Pelican cutting its own breast to feed its young ) and then consuming it with the words, " There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: Do what thou wilt!

In real-time strategy ( RTS ) game Command & Conquer Red Alert 3, a number of the vehicles of the Empire of the Rising Sun are referred to as mecha, since they are capable of transforming from ground or sea units to aerial fighters, granting them additional flexibility in battle but making them closer to robots then to true mecha.

In order of increasing distance from the Sun, they are the four terrestrials, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, then the four gas giants, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

In 1956, the second was redefined in terms of a year ( the period of the Earth's revolution around the Sun ) for a particular epoch because, by then, it had become recognized that the Earth's rotation on its own axis was not sufficiently uniform as a standard of time.

On October 27, 2003, the Chargers wore their navy pants with their navy jersey for a Monday Night Football game versus the Miami Dolphins that was played at Sun Devil Stadium, then the home of the Arizona Cardinals, due to wildfires in southern California.

However, after a narrow 21-20 win against the Giants, the Cowboys regained their dominating form, trouncing the Arizona Cardinals ( who were playing their home games at Sun Devil Stadium ) 37-13 on Christmas night at Arizona as part of Monday Night Football, and then cruising through the playoffs with convincing wins against the Eagles and the Packers.

Divide the distance from the Sun to Saturn into 100 parts ; then Mercury is separated by four such parts from the Sun, Venus by 4 + 3 = 7 such parts, the Earth by 4 + 6 = 10, Mars by 4 + 12 = 16.

Let the distance from the Sun to Saturn be taken as 100, then Mercury is separated by 4 such parts from the Sun.

In theosophy, it is believed the Seven Stars of the Pleiades focus the spiritual energy of the Seven Rays from the Galactic Logos to the Seven Stars of the Great Bear, then to Sirius, then to the Sun, then to the god of Earth ( Sanat Kumara ), and finally through the seven Masters of the Seven Rays to the human race.

Chiang Kai-shek returned to Guangzhou, and in 1924 was appointed Commandant of the Whampoa Military Academy by Sun.

In the summer of 1925, Radek was appointed Provost of the newly established Sun Yat-Sen University, where Radek collected information for the opposition from students about the situation in China and cautiously began to challenge the official Comintern policy.

* 1973, he was appointed a Grand Cordon First Class of the Order of the Rising Sun

Sun Tzu also said that, once a general was appointed, it was his duty to carry out his mission, even if the king protested.

The Japanese appointed conferred the Grand Cordon, Order of the Rising Sun in 1973.

Indeed, against Liu Ye's advice, he appointed Sun Quan the King of Wu and granted him the nine bestowments.

Sun Quan was ecstatic, and appointed Gongsun Yuan the Prince of Yan and granted him the nine bestowments, and further sent a detachment of 10, 000 men by sea north to assist Gongsun Yuan in his campaign against Wei, against the advice of nearly every single one of his high level officials, particularly Zhang Zhao.

In 242, he appointed his son Sun He, born to Consort Wang, crown prince.

In 1924 Sun appointed TV Soong to set up the first Chinese Central bank called the Canton Central Bank.

In early 1994 Kelvin MacKenzie, former editor of The Sun newspaper, was appointed Managing Director of BSkyB.

Losing out to the more experienced Charles Bean for the position of official Australian correspondent covering the 1914 war, in 1915 he was appointed managing editor of the London cable service run by the Sun and the Melbourne Herald.

In October 2011, Patricia Graham, Vancouver Sun editor in chief, was appointed Vice-President, Digital for Pacific Newspaper Group.

When Sun Ce did, however, Yuan Shu again went back on his words and appointed someone else instead.

To counter the frequent rebellions of the Shanyue ( who would continue to rebel for many years ), Sun Ce appointed a certain He Qi to a military rank with orders to subdue the Shanyue.

In an effort to garner support from Sun Ce, the rising warlord Cao Cao then recommended him to be appointed the Rebellions-Suppressing General ( 討逆將軍 ) and enfeoffed as Marquis of Wu ( 吳侯 ).

Guan Yu, the general appointed by Liu Bei to defend Jing Province, was captured after his defeat and executed on Sun Quan's order.

Sun Ce granted Lü Meng an audience with him, and he was very impressed with Lü, so he acquitted Lü of his crimes and appointed him as a general.

When Sun Ce entered Kuaiji, Zhou Tai was appointed Major with a Separate Command, and was given troops to command.

Liu Biao appointed Huang Zu to command the forces against Sun Jian.

After Sun Quan declared himself emperor, Lu Xun was appointed chancellor.

When Cao Rui became Emperor of Wei, he trusted Sima Yi greatly and appointed him Piaoqi General ( 骠骑大将军 ) and military commander of Yuzhou and Jingzhou ( 督荊豫二州諸軍事 ), placed him on the border between Wei and Wu to defend against Sun Quan's forces, and created him Marquess of Wuyang.

During the battle of Ruxu, Zhou Tai was appointed by Sun Quan to be the area commander, Xu Sheng and Zhu Ran were both under Zhou's command.

A parliamentary committee hearing was convened, and Prime Minister Lester Pearson appointed Vancouver Sun publisher Stuart Keate as a special investigator.

The following June Sandino appointed a representative to the Second Congress of the World Anti-Imperialist League in Frankfurt, which was attended by Jawaharlal Nehru and Madame Sun Yat-sen.