In addition, he suggests the mythical elements of the tale were based on the fictional adventures of Sun Wukong from the classical novel Journey to the West.

For example, in the classic novel Journey to the West ( circa 1590 ), Sun Wukong tells a lion-monster in chapter 75: " When I passed through Guangzhou, I bought a pot for cooking za sui – so I'll savour your liver, entrails, and lungs.

* Sun Wukong ( also the Monkey King )

Sun Wukong (), also known as the Monkey King, is a main character in the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to the West () written by Wu Cheng ' en.

Sun Wukong possesses an immense amount of strength ; he is able to lift his 13, 500 jīn ( 8, 100 kg or 17, 881 lbs ) staff with ease.

One of the most enduring Chinese literary characters, Sun Wukong has a varied background and colorful cultural history.

Depiction of Sun Wukong from a printed edition of the novel

Sun Wukong as depicted in a scene in a Beijing opera

Sun Wukong was born from a mythical stone formed from the primal forces of chaos, located on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit ( hua guo shan ).

It was from him that the monkey received his official name Sun Wukong (" Sun " implies his origin as a monkey, and " Wukong " means aware of emptiness ).

Sun Wukong became proud of his abilities, and began boasting to the other disciples.

Before they parted, he ordered that Sun Wukong promise never to tell anyone how he acquired his powers.

At the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit, Sun Wukong established himself as one of the most powerful and influential demons in the world.

In search of a weapon worthy of himself, Sun Wukong traveled into the oceans, where he acquired the Golden-banded staff Ruyi Jingu Bang, which could change its size, multiply itself, and fight according to the whim of its master.

Its versatility meant that Sun Wukong could wield it as a staff and keep it inside his ear as a sewing needle.

Sun Wukong formed a fraternity with the Bull Demon King ( 牛魔王 ), the Saurial Demon King ( 蛟魔王 ), the Roc Demon King ( 鵬魔王 ), the Lion Spirit King ( 獅狔王 ), the Macaque Spirit King ( 獼猴王 ) and the Marmoset Spirit King ( ).

Sun Wukong then defied Hell's attempt to collect his soul.

Hoping that a promotion and a rank amongst the gods would make him more manageable, the Jade Emperor invited Sun Wukong to Heaven, where the monkey believed he would receive an honorable place as one of the gods.

When he discovered this, Sun Wukong rebelled and proclaimed himself the " Great Sage, Equal of Heaven ", and allied with some of the most powerful demons on earth.

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.

Eventually, through the teamwork of Taoist and Buddhist forces, including the efforts from some of the greatest deities, Sun Wukong was captured.

After several failed attempts at execution, Sun Wukong was locked into Lao Tzu's eight-way trigram cauldron to be distilled into an elixir by the most sacred and the most severe samadhi fires.

What is needed, Philip Morrison writes in The Cornell Daily Sun ( October 26 ) is a discontinuity.

One of the most appealing of the rooftop canvases is `` Sun And Wind On The Roof '', with a woman and child bracing themselves against flapping clothes and flying birds.

* Another group is the School of the Military that studied strategy and the philosophy of war ; Sunzi and Sun Bin were influential leaders.

An astronomical unit ( abbreviated as AU, au, a. u., or ua ) is a unit of length equal to exactly or approximately the mean Earth – Sun distance.

An equivalent definition is the radius of an unperturbed circular Newtonian orbit about the Sun of a particle having infinitesimal mass, moving with an angular frequency of radians per day ; or that length such that, when used to describe the positions of the objects in the Solar System, the heliocentric gravitational constant ( the product GM < sub >☉</ sub >) is equal to ()< sup > 2 </ sup > AU < sup > 3 </ sup >/ d < sup > 2 </ sup >.

This is because the distance between the Earth and the Sun is not fixed ( it varies between AU and AU ) and, when the Earth is closer to the Sun ( perihelion ), the Sun's gravitational field is stronger and the Earth is moving faster along its orbital path.

According to Archimedes in the Sandreckoner ( 2. 1 ), Aristarchus of Samos estimated the distance to the Sun to be 10, 000 times the Earth's radius ( the true value is about 23, 000 ).

However, the book On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, which has long been ascribed to Aristarchus, says that he calculated the distance to the sun to be between 18 and 20 times the distance to the Moon, whereas the true ratio is about 389. 174.

1st century BCE ), shows how the distance to the Sun can be computed geometrically, using the different lengths of the noontime shadows observed at three places 1000 li apart and the assumption that the Earth is flat.

Arizona State University's Division I athletic teams are called the Sun Devils, which is also the nickname used to refer to students and alumni of the university.

The Sun Devil mascot is named Sparky.

In this case, the absolute magnitude is defined as the apparent magnitude that the object would have if it were one astronomical unit ( AU ) from both the Sun and the observer.

Because the object is illuminated by the Sun, absolute magnitude is a function of phase angle and this relationship is referred to as the phase curve.

In Gnostic cosmology, the 7 letters spelling its name represent each of the 7 classic planets — Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

* A name used for a tank ( an armoured fighting vehicle ) in some works of speculative fiction, such as Harry Turtledove's books, and Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun.

There have been attempts to incorporate democracy, republicanism, and industrialism into Chinese philosophy, notably by Sun Yat-Sen ( Sūn yì xiān, in one Mandarin form of the name ) at the beginning of the 20th century.

Since the KMT had completed the first step of revolution through seizure of power in 1928, Chiang's rule thus began a period of what his party considered to be " political tutelage " in Sun Yat-sen's name.

This is the name under which Sun Yat-sen knew him when Chiang joined the republicans in Guangzhou in the 1910s.

Sometime in 1917 or 1918, as Chiang became close to Sun Yat-sen, he changed his name from Jiang Zhiqing to Jiang Zhongzheng ().

By adopting the name Chung-cheng (" central uprightness "), he was choosing a name very similar to the name of Sun Yat-sen, who was ( and still is ) known among Chinese as Zhongshan ( 中山 — meaning " central mountain "), thus establishing a link between the two.

The meaning of uprightness, rectitude, or orthodoxy, implied by his name, also positioned him as the legitimate heir of Sun Yat-sen and his ideas.

Linebarger's cultural links to China are partially expressed in the pseudonym " Felix C. Forrest ", which he used in addition to " Cordwainer Smith ": his godfather Sun Yat-Sen suggested to Linebarger that he adopt the Chinese name " Lin Bai-lo " (), which may be roughly translated as " Forest of Incandescent Bliss ".

In popular myth, the word ' documentary ' was coined by Scottish documentarian John Grierson in his review of Robert Flaherty's film Moana ( 1926 ), published in the New York Sun on 8 February 1926, written by " The Moviegoer " ( a pen name for Grierson ).

" She was a graphic artist and a painter, and — under the name " Alice Bradley Davey " — an art critic for the Chicago Sun between 1941 and 1942.

This is derived from the name of the church's founder Sun Myung Moon, and was first used in 1974 by the American media.

The word " Moonie " is derived from the name of Sun Myung Moon, the founder and leader of the Unification Church.

In 1978, Sun Myung Moon declared: " In two and a half years the word ' Moonie ' shall become an honorable name and we will have demonstrations and victory celebrations from coast to coast.

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

In the meantime, the Berkeley RISC effort had become so well known that it eventually became the name for the entire concept and in 1987 Sun Microsystems began shipping systems with the SPARC processor, directly based on the Berkeley RISC-II system.

For example, he linked Amaterasu ( the sun goddess and ancestor of the Imperial family ) with Dainichi Nyorai, a central manifestation of the Buddhists, whose name means literally " Great Sun Buddha ".

He had no surname, and his childhood given name was (" Bounty of the Sun ") although variations exist.

You King Gelon are aware the ' universe ' is the name given by most astronomers to the sphere the center of which is the center of the Earth, while its radius is equal to the straight line between the center of the Sun and the center of the Earth.

After a period of prayer and consideration, Moon accepted the mission, later changing his name to Mun Son-myong ( Sun Myung Moon ).

Its name lived on in the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram, and then later the New York World-Telegram and Sun in 1950, and finally was last used by the New York World-Journal-Tribune from September 1966 to May 1967.

Sun provides no J2ME JRE for the Microsoft Windows Mobile ( Pocket PC ) based devices, despite an open-letter campaign to Sun to release a rumored internal implementation of PersonalJava known by the code name " Captain America ".