After the successful conclusion of the Northern Expedition, the now-defunct Ministry of Agriculture and Minerals formally petitioned the Executive Yuan to establish Arbor Day to commemorate the passing of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the Father of Modern China.

They were inspired by the revolutionary ideas of Sun Yat-sen.

When Sun Yat-sen was asked by one of the leading revolutionary generals to what he ascribed the success, he said, " To Christianity more than to any other single cause.

Sun Yat-sen, founder and first president of the Republic of China.

** Boorman, Howard L. " Sun Yat-sen " in Boorman, ed.

Chiang was an influential member of the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang ( KMT ), and was a close ally of Sun Yat-sen.

Unlike Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek was socially conservative, promoting traditional Chinese culture in the New Life Movement and rejecting western democracy and the nationalist democratic socialism that Sun Yat-sen and some other members of the KMT embraced in favor of a nationalist authoritarian government.

Chiang's predecessor, Sun Yat-sen, was well-liked and respected by the Communists, but after Sun's death Chiang was not able to maintain good relations with the Communists.

According to various sources, Chiang's first personal act of violence occurred around this time, when he either instigated or performed the assassination of a dissident member of the Revolutionary Alliance who opposed both Sun Yat-sen and Chen Qimei.

In 1917, Sun Yat-sen moved his base of operations to Guangzhou, and Chiang joined him in 1918.

The incident earned Chiang the trust of Sun Yat-sen.

Throughout his rise to power, Chiang also benefited from membership within the nationalist Tiandihui fraternity, to which Sun Yat-sen also belonged, and which remained a source of support during his leadership of China and, later, Taiwan.

Sun Yat-sen died on March 12, 1925, creating a power vacuum in the Kuomintang.

In 1927, when he was setting up the Nationalist government in Nanjing, he was preoccupied with " the elevation of our leader Dr. Sun Yat-sen to the rank of ' Father of our Chinese Republic '.

Chiang made great efforts to gain recognition as the official successor of Sun Yat-sen.

Upon reaching Beijing, Chiang paid homage to Sun Yat-sen and had his body moved to the new capital of Nanjing to be enshrined in a grand mausoleum.

At Moscow, Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls ; and, in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

As with his predecessor Sun Yat-sen, the Western media dubbed him " Generalissimo ".

In sharp contrast to his son, Chiang Ching-kuo, and to Sun Yat-sen, his memory is rarely invoked by current political parties, including the Kuomintang.

Even Hemingway, for all his efforts to formulate a naturalistic morality in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell To Arms never maintained that sex was all.

The Yang, or male principle, was the source of light, heat, and dynamic vitality, associated with the Sun ; ;

These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disk of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet, but as small objects in the outer Solar System were discovered, their volatile-based surfaces were found to more closely resemble comets, and so were often distinguished from traditional asteroids.

It consisted of green fields, valleys and mountains, everyone there was peaceful and contented, and the Sun always shone there.

The AU was originally defined as the length of the semi-major axis of the Earth's elliptical orbit around the Sun.

The latter estimate was based on the angle between the half moon and the Sun, which he estimated as 87 ° ( the true value being close to 89. 853 °).

He thought that the image of " Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program.

Arizona State Sun Devils football was founded in 1897 under coach Fred Irish.

He was posthumously awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun in 1999.

It occurred soon before an eclipse of the Sun that was observed at Rome on 25 June 745 BC and had a magnitude of 50. 3 %.

The Romans add that about the time Romulus started to build the city, an eclipse of the Sun was observed by Antimachus, the Teian poet, on the 30th day of the lunar month.

Romulus vanished in the 54th year of his life, on the Nones of Quintilis ( July ), on a day when the Sun was darkened.

The day became like night, which sudden darkness was believed to be an eclipse of the Sun.

It was discovered in 1725 and later explained by the third Astronomer Royal, James Bradley, who attributed it to the finite speed of light and the motion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun.

It is also worth noting that part of the original motivation of the search for stellar parallax was to test the Copernican theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun, but of course the existence of aberration also establishes the truth of that theory.

It is also important that the Great Sun Stone, also known as the Aztec Calendar, was carved under his leadership.

In 2006 and 2007, J. D. Monnier and his coworkers produced an image of Altair's surface from 2006 infrared observations made with the MIRC instrument on the CHARA array interferometer ; this was the first time the surface of any main-sequence star, apart from the Sun, had been imaged.

Since the focus of his book was calculation, Bede gave instructions for computing the date of Easter and the related time of the Easter Full Moon, for calculating the motion of the Sun and Moon through the zodiac, and for many other calculations related to the calendar.

Likely the most extreme criticism of the practice was given by Sun sports columnist John Steadman suggested that Baltimore forfeit any game where a fan shouts " O!

In the documentary " Eat the Sun " ( 2011-Peter Sorcher ), he was caught on camera eating a big meal in a restaurant on 500 Haight Street, San Francisco, U. S. A.

Initially, some problems were experienced when it was commanded to track the Sun, but a series of software fixes were made and the problem was corrected.

The Sun newspaper, still at this stage supporting the Conservative Party, had lost faith in Major and declared its support for Redwood in the leadership election, running the front page headline " Redwood versus Deadwood ".

He gives the example of Copernicus, who declared that, contrary to our experience, the Earth revolves around the Sun.

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.

The Konark Sun Temple has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Liu Bei and Sun Quan declared themselves emperor of Shu and Wu respectively.

At first Sun Quan nominally served as a Wei vassal with the Wei-created title of King of Wu, but after Cao Pi demanded that he send his son Sun Deng as a hostage to the Wei capital Luoyang and he refused, in 222, he declared himself independent by changing his era name.

Sun Quan did not immediately submit to Wei or declare independence after Cao Pi's enthronement, but took a wait-and-see attitude ; by contrast, in early 221, Liu Bei declared himself emperor, establishing the state of Shu Han.

Later that year, when Cao Pi demanded that Sun Quan send his crown prince Sun Deng to the Wei capital Luoyang as a hostage ( to guarantee his loyalty ), Sun Quan refused and declared independence ( by changing era name ), thus establishing Eastern Wu as an independent state.

In 229, Sun Quan declared himself emperor, which almost damaged the alliance with Shu, as many Shu officials saw this as a sign of betrayal of the Han Dynasty — to which Shu claimed to be the legitimate successor.

In 274, Emperor Aurelian had declared a civil holiday on 25 December ( the " Festival of the birth of the Unconquered Sun ") to celebrate the deity Sol Invictus.

In February 1923 Sun made a presentation to the Students ' Union in Hong Kong University and declared that it was the corruption of China and the peace, order and good government of Hong Kong that turned him into a revolutionary.

As Sun Yat-sen declared, a principle is not simply an idea ; it is " a faith, a power.

Sun Quan declared independence in the following year, and started to build forts and palaces in Wuchang.

Sun Yat-sen once declared: " In order to restore our national independence, we must first restore the Chinese nation.

The Sun newspaper had declared its support for Redwood in the run-up to the leadership contest, running the front page headline " Redwood versus Deadwood ".

Sun Tzu declared that " All warfare is based on deception.

A ceasefire with Sun Yatsen's rival Constitutional Protection government was declared and intellectuals were given greater freedom.

Then, lord Krishna smilingly declared that as Earth, Moon and Sun are together in one place, this in itself was an eclipse.

When Sun Quan declared himself the first emperor of the state of Eastern Wu in 222, he bestowed upon Sun Ce the posthumous title of Prince Huan of Changsha ( 長沙桓王 ).