* 1966 – Garnett Silk, Jamaican singer ( d. 1994 )

* Niya – Located in the Taklamakan Desert, on the ancient Silk Road route.

* Loulan – Located in the Taklamakan Desert, on the ancient Silk Road route.

* Subashi – Located in the Taklamakan Desert, on the ancient Silk Road route.

* Otrar – City located along the Silk Road, important in the history of Central Asia.

* Ebon Atoll – John M. Silk ( UDP )

* 1974 – Mohit Chauhan, Indian Singer ( Silk Route )

Uyghur history can be divided into four distinct phases: Pre-Imperial ( 300 BC – AD 630 ), Imperial ( AD 630 – 840 ), Idiqut ( AD 840 – 1200 ), and Mongol ( AD 1209 – 1600 ), with perhaps a fifth modern phase running from the death of the Silk Road in AD 1600 until the present.

* Vasco da Gama reaches India for Portugal, creating the first maritime alternative for the Silk Road ( – 1524 )

Silk fibroin, considered a β-keratin, can have these two as 75 – 80 % of the total, with 10 – 15 % serine, with the rest having bulky side groups.

" When Glass Was Treasured in China ," in Silk Road Studies VII: Nomads, Traders, and Holy Men Along China's Silk Road, 79 – 94.

" The Role of the Sogdians as Translators of Buddhist Texts ," in Silk Road Studies VII: Nomads, Traders, and Holy Men Along China's Silk Road, 75 – 78.

* Samarkand – Silk Road Seattle Project, University of Washington

Extending 4, 000 miles ( 6, 500 km ), the Silk Road gets its name from the lucrative Chinese silk trade along it, which began during the Han Dynasty ( 206 BC – 220 AD ).

Later envoys included Odoric of Pordenone, Giovanni de ' Marignolli, John of Montecorvino, Niccolò de ' Conti, or Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan Muslim traveller, who passed through the present-day Middle East and across the Silk Road from Tabriz, between 1325 – 1354.

To check the situation on the ground, Bento de Góis, a Portuguese former soldier and explorer who had joined the Jesuits as a Lay Brother in Goa, India, traveled in 1603 – 1605 from India via Afghanistan and one of the routes of the traditional Silk Road ( via Badakhshan, the Pamirs, Yarkand, Kucha, and Turpan to the Ming China's border as Suzhou, Gansu.

In September 2009, Iran formally joined the Transport Corridor Europe – Caucasus – Asia ( TRACECA ) programme, also known as the " new Silk Road.

* Silk screen printing – the main commercial method.

The owner of the saloon, Silk Miller ( played by Hollingsworth ), and his accomplices sense trouble and hire gunman Blaze Tracy ( played by Hart ), the most dangerous man around, to run the minister out of town.

* Alfred Hollingsworth as Silk Miller

Gary Silk and Rodney Miller

On 24 September 2001, Bandali Debs, a father of five from Narre Warren, Victoria and Jason Joseph Roberts, an apprentice builder, of Cranbourne, Victoria faced charges relating to the murders of Silk and Miller as well as 13 other charges of armed robbery relating to offences alleged to have occurred between March and July 1998.

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* 16 August 1998-Victorian police officers Gary Silk and Rodney Miller were shot dead in an ambush by Bendali Debs and Jason Joseph Roberts in the Moorabbin Police murders.

Miller worked extensively on the role, not only in researching Anthony Hopkins, but by embarking on a four month regimen to accurately portray Silk as a boxer.

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The tree is also known as the Java cotton, Java kapok, Silk cotton or ceiba.

In addition, many albums have been named with allusions to proverbs, such as Spilt milk ( a title used by Jellyfish and also Kristina Train ), The more things change by Machine Head, Silk purse by Linda Rondstadt, Another day, another dollar by DJ Scream Roccett, The blind leading the naked by Vicious Femmes, What's good for the goose is good for the gander by Bobby Rush, Resistance is Futile by Steve Coleman.

Silk or faux-silk scarves ( especially Tootal brand ) with paisley patterns are also sometimes worn.

The Silk Road was also a pathway for intruders, namely the Turkic-Mongol peoples of Central Asia.

The Travels of Marco Polo, where Polo records his journey along the Silk Road, describes Samarkand as a " a very large and splendid city ..." Here also is related the story of a Christian church in Samarkand, which miraculously remained standing after a portion of its central supporting column was removed.

Silk production also occurs in Hymenoptera ( bees, wasps, and ants ), silverfish, mayflies, thrips, leafhoppers, beetles, lacewings, fleas, flies and midges.

Today silk is mainly produced in Bhoodhan Pochampally ( also known as Silk City ), Kanchipuram, Dharmavaram, Mysore, etc.

Though silk was certainly the major trade item from China, many other goods were traded, and various technologies, religions and philosophies, as well as the bubonic plague ( the " Black Death "), also traveled along the Silk Routes.

Actor George Tobias, who played the commissar in Silk Stockings, also had a small role in Ninotchka as the man who gets punched by Leon for refusing him a visa.

There are several species of Saturniidae that are also farmed for their silk, such as the Ailanthus moth ( Samia cynthia group of species ), the Chinese Oak Silkmoth ( Antheraea pernyi ), the Assam Silkmoth ( Antheraea assamensis ), and the Japanese Silk Moth ( Antheraea yamamai ).

It is also extensively grown in South China and in Southeast Asia, whether originally spread along the route of the Silk Road or brought by sea traders.

Silk and lightweight wool are also used, but less commonly than in the past.

The Cedar Cliff Land Company ran newspaper advertisements targeted at upwardly mobile immigrants who worked in Paterson's silk industry, offering the city-sized lots for sale at auctions ( with free lunches and brass bands ) held at St. Mary's Parish Hall, and also opened the Cedar Cliff Silk Mill, which became one of several silk mills in the community.

In addition to anthracite coal-mining, it also had silk and knitting mills ( the Eagle Silk Mill became the largest textile building under one roof in America ), stocking and shirt factories, wagon shops, ironworks, and brickyards.

A lavish media party was also held at Chislehurst Caves in Kent, England on 31 October 1974, to celebrate the label's first UK release by the Pretty Things, Silk Torpedo ( the first US release for Swan Song was the self-titled debut album from Bad Company in June 1974 ).

Along with the song, the Silk FM team also produced a music video filmed in front of the iconic Lovell telescope.

Minott also produced early works by Nitty Gritty, Junior Reid, Yami Bolo, Colourman, Daddy Freddy and Garnett Silk, who recorded his first song for Minott.

The University of Waterloo School of Architecture campus is located in Cambridge in the Riverside Silk Mill, also known as the Tiger Brand Building.

Krefeld is also called the " Velvet and Silk City ".

The powerful Kingdom of Lan Xang had wealth and influence due to the location of its capital along the Silk Route and also serving as the center of Buddhism in Southeast Asia.

The city is served by Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport which has scheduled flights to many cities in Indonesia and also to Singapore by Silk Air and Malaysia by AirAsia.

" A small number of Christian artifacts have also been found in the caves ( see Jesus Sutras ), testimony to the wide variety of people who made their way along the Silk Road.

The Mogao Caves or Mogao Grottoes (), also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas (), form a system of 492 temples southeast of the center of Dunhuang, an oasis strategically located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in Gansu province, China.

It also became an important gateway to the West, a centre of commerce along the Silk Road, as well as a meeting place of various people and religions such as Buddhism.