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The official History of Laos as introduced in government textbooks, is conventionally traced to the establishment of the kingdom of Lan Xang by Fa Ngum in 1353.
In a culture based on oratory, the Fa ’ alupega is a formal greeting which acknowledges those being greeted and their status.
Although tiltrotors such as the Focke-Achgelis Fa 269 of the mid-1940s and the Centro Técnico Aeroespacial " Convertiplano " of the 1950s reached testing or mock-up stages, the V-22 Osprey is considered the world's first production tiltrotor aircraft.
The current era is described in Falun Gong teachings as the " Fa rectification " period ( zhengfa, which might also be translated as " to correct the dharma "), a time of cosmic transition and renewal.
The process of Fa rectification is necessitated by the moral decline and degeneration of life in the universe, and in the post-1999 context, the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese government has come to be described as a tangible symptom of this moral decay.
Fa Mulan ( Chinese: 花木蘭 ) better known simply as Mulan, is a fictional character and lead protagonist of Disney's thirty-sixth animated feature film Mulan ( 1998 ).
When Fa Mulan hears that her elderly father Fa Zhou, the only man in their family, is forced to join the army, she decides to stand in his place, disguising herself as a young man named " Ping ".
Mushu is granted a position as a Fa family guardian by the ancestors amid a returning celebration.
The film's protagonist, Fa Mulan, is the only daughter of aged warrior Fa Zhou.
When Fa Mulan hears that her elderly father Fa Zhou, the only man in their family, is forced to join the army, she decides to stand in his place, disguising herself as a young man named " Ping ".
Mushu is granted a position as a Fa family guardian by the ancestors amid a returning celebration.
Though Mulan is set in northern China and employs her Mandarin personal name, Disney gives her the Cantonese pronunciation ( Fa ) for her family name.
| Fa || Francium || 87 || Current symbol is Fr.
In Polynesian mythology ( Specifically: Samoa ), Fa ' atiu is the wind and storm god.
In Polynesian mythology, Raka Maomao is the god of wind, equivalent to La ' a Maomao ( Hawaii ) and Fa ' atiu ( Samoa ).
* 1823-Scottish Missionary Society workers arrive in Bombay, India ; Liang Fa, first Chinese Protestant evangelist, is ordained by Robert Morrison ; Colonial and Continental Church Society formed
Containing such songs as the proto-punk classics " Kick Out the Jams " and " Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa ", the spaced-out " Starship " ( co-credited to Sun Ra because the lyrics were partly cribbed from one of Ra's poems ), and an extended cover of John Lee Hooker's " Motor City is Burning " wherein Tyner praises the role of Black Panther snipers during the Detroit Insurrection of 1967.
The term has been used to describe hijras of India, Bangladesh and Pakistan who have gained legal identity, Fa ' afafine of Polynesia, and Sworn virgins of the Balkans, among others, and is also used by many of such groups and individuals to describe themselves.

Fa and language
The Annobonese language, known to its speakers as Fá d ' Ambô or Fa d ' Ambu (), is spoken by 2500 in the Annobon and Bioko Islands off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, mostly by people of mixed African, Spanish, and Portuguese descent.

Fa and amatai
The Fa ' amatai and the Fono take place at all levels of the Samoan body politic, from the family, to the village, to the region, to national matters.
Central to the organisation of Samoan society is the culture's Fa ' amatai traditional system of social organisation.

Fa and council
The new Fa ’ alupega of German Samoa, which in its first line recognises the Kaiser ( Kaisa ), apparently required Malietoa Tanunafili and Tupua Tamasese to be sworn on oath to become advisors to the governing council:
Answers from the council of dead kings to the queries posed by the messengers were given through divination: either by tossing cowry shells or seed pods and marking the results on dust-coated Fa boards, or by spirit possession of Vodou adepts.
Under the council of advisor Fa Zheng, Huang Zhong occupied Mount Tiandang, a taller peak that lied to the west of Mount Dingjun.
Under the council of advisor Fa Zheng, Huang Zhong occupied Mount Tiandang, a taller peak that lay to the west of Mount Dingjun.

Fa and chiefly
At weddings, chiefly installations ( sa ' ofaiga ), funerals, opening of houses / churches, or any other public gathering of Samoans, Fa ' aaloaloga will always be performed.

Fa and system
In his seminal Die Grundgesetze der Arithmetik ( Basic Laws of Arithmetic ) he built up arithmetic from a system of logic with a general principle of comprehension, which he called " Basic Law V " ( for concepts F and G, the extension of F equals the extension of G if and only if for all objects a, Fa if and only if Ga ), a principle that he took to be acceptable as part of logic.
There is a continual debate about the merits of this system as compared to solfege: it holds the advantage that when dealing with abstract concepts such as interval distance a student may easily recognize that the distance between 1 to 5 is larger than the distance between 1 to 4 because of the numerical values assigned ( as compared to Solfege, where comparing Do to Sol and Do to Fa remain completely abstract until sung or played ).
Her Sol-fa system was based on the ancient gamut ; but she omitted the constant recital of the alphabetical names of each note and the arbitrary syllable indicating key relationship, and also the recital of two or more such syllables when the same note was common to as many keys ( e. g. C, Fa, Ut, meaning that C is the subdominant of G and the tonic of C ).
After King Fa ( Posthumous Name: Wu ) of Zhou had defeated the Yin House of Shang Dynasty 商, the King created five hereditary ranks ( Gong 公, Hou 侯, Bo 伯, Zi 子 and Nan 男 ) for nobles very much similar to the current European nobility system ( Duke, Marquees, Earl / Count, Viscount, and Baron ).
* At Yang's suggestion, the tax system was reformed — with the intention to decrease the tax burden on the landowners and farmers and bring merchants, who were previously not taxed, into the taxation system — under a new tax law known as the Law of the Two Taxes ( 兩稅法, Liangshui Fa ).

Fa and .
At Sir Te's estate, Shu Lien meets Jen ( Zhang Ziyi ), the daughter of Governor Yu ( Fa Zeng Li ), a visiting Manchu aristocrat.
# Fa ( 法 fa3 ): law or principle.
** The Sima Fa, attributed to Sima Rangju.
In the book of the Xin Yi Xiang Fa Yao, published in 1092 by the Chinese scientist Su Song, a star map on the equidistant cylindrical projection.
It was assigned the symbol Fa, but this abbreviation was revised to the current Fr shortly thereafter.
World War II saw a limited use of kites for military purposes ( see Focke Achgelis Fa 330 for example ) but since then they are used mainly for recreation.
Orans concludes that Freeman's basic criticisms, that Mead was duped by ceremonial virgin Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' amu ( who later swore to Freeman that she had played a joke on Mead ) were false for several reasons: first, Mead was well aware of the forms and frequency of Samoan joking ; second, she provided a careful account of the sexual restrictions on ceremonial virgins that correspond's to Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' auma ' a's account to Freeman, and third, that Mead's notes make clear that she had reached her conclusions about Samoan sexuality before meeting Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' amu.
In solfège these notes correspond to the syllables " Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti / Si, ( Do )", the " Do " in the parenthesis at the end being the octave of the tonic starting pitch.
Crowe wrote a letter of apology to a Sydney newspaper following the sacking of South Sydney's coach Jason Taylor and one of their players David Fa ' alogo after a drunken altercation between the two at the end of the 2009 NRL season.
To complete the process, the Fa ’ alupega for all Samoa was revised.
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Jiang Fa passed down the Art to Chen Qingping in Zhaobao Town and Chen Changxing in Chenjiagou.
The political reformers at court, called the New Policies Group ( 新法, Xin Fa ), were led by Emperor Shenzong of Song and the Chancellors Fan Zhongyan and Wang Anshi, while the political conservatives were led by Chancellor Sima Guang and Empress Dowager Gao, regent of the young Emperor Zhezong of Song.
The original diagram of Su Song's book Xin Yi Xiang Fa Yao ( published 1092 ) showing the Water clock | clepsydra tank, waterwheel, escapement mechanism, chain drive, striking clock jacks, and armillary sphere of his clock tower.

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