When the Ming Dynasty Chinese astronomer Xu Guangqi adapted the European southern hemisphere constellations to the Chinese system in The Southern Asterisms, he combined Apus with some of the stars in Octans to form the " Exotic Bird " ( 異雀, Yìquè ).

Jurchen script | Jurchen translation of the Chinese couplet, Ming wang shen de, si yi xian bin (" 明王慎德. 四夷咸宾 ": " When a wise king is heedful of virtue, foreigners from all quarters come as guests ")

When the Mongol Yuan Dynasty was overthrown and the Ming Dynasty was established, the Tibetan lamas were expelled from the court, and this form of Buddhism was denounced as not being an orthodox path.

When the Ming army finally captured Yunnan from Mongols in 1382, thousands of prisoners were killed and, according to the custom in times of war, their young sons – including Zheng He – were castrated.

When the Chinese overthrew Mongol rule and established the Ming dynasty, many Mongols were castrated and turned into eunuchs.

When Beijing was captured by Li Zicheng's peasant rebels in 1644, the last Ming Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide.

When the Ming dynasty in China fell, several thousand Chinese refugees fled south and extensively settled on Cham lands and in Cambodia.

When a Chinese official visited the island and began reasserting Ming authority over it, Simão became aggressive and hit him, knocking the official's hat off.

When Japan invaded Korea to attack the Ming Empire, he was installed as Crown Prince.

* Mireille Levert, When Jeremiah Found Mrs. Ming

When Ming Dynasty loyalist Koxinga ( Cheng Ch ' en-Kung ) successfully attacked the Dutch in the South of Taiwan, the crew of the Keelung forts fled to the Dutch trading post in Japan.

When the native Chinese Ming dynasty overthrew the Yuan dynasty in the 14th century, Christians were again expelled from China.

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When a Ming messenger came to Goryeo in 1388 ( the 14th year of King U ) to demand the return of a significant portion of Goryeo ’ s northern territory, General Choe seized the opportunity and played upon the prevailing anti-Ming atmosphere to argue for the invasion of the Liaodong Peninsula ( Goryeo claimed to be the successor of the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo ; as such, restoring Manchuria as part of Korean territory was a tenet of its foreign policy throughout its history ).

When Kang Sheng arrived in the Party's redoubt at Yan ' an in late November 1937 as part of Wang Ming's entourage, he may have already realized that Wang Ming was falling out of favor, but he initially supported Wang and the Comintern ’ s efforts to guide the Chinese Communists back into line with Soviet policy, especially the need to align with the Kuomintang against the Japanese.

When Emperor Ming came to power and executed many members of the court and royal family for fear that they would threaten his reign, Wáng believed that he would be targeted next and rebelled.

When Flash Gordon arrives on Mongo, he finds Prince Barin is leading a guerrilla war against Ming from Arboria.

When the Manchus entered Korea, Mao ordered a general retreat of Ming forces.

When Qing Emperor Qian Long visited Yangzhou in 1765, he was troubled by The temple's name Daming ( which literally means " Great Ming ') fearing that it might revive nostalgia for the Ming Dynasty, which was overthrown by his Manchu predecessors.

When Toyotomi Hideyoshi assumed the Regency of Japan in the 1580s, the Ming and the Regent worked together to stop the raids, and were very successful.

When Köke Temür lost battles against Ming General Xu Da and the Ming troops approached Hebei, Toghun Temür gave up Dadu and fled to the summer base Shangdu.

When the Ming Dynasty expelled the Mongols and reunited China under Han rule, the concept of tianxia returned largely as it was during the Han Dynasty.

When these do not work, he tries to avoid responsibility, saying he will ask the government for orders.

When Patroclus is killed, Hector tries to steal his body.

When he doesn't answer, she tries to whistle-and succeeds in blowing a shrill, ugly whistle.

When an English soldier tries to rape Murron, Wallace fights off several soldiers and the two attempt to flee.

When faced with a new circuit, the software first tries to find a steady state solution, that is, one where all nodes conform to Kirchhoff's Current Law and the voltages across and through each element of the circuit conform to the voltage / current equations governing that element.

When Godzilla tries to kill Kong with his atomic breath, an electrical storm arrives and revives Kong, giving him the power of an electric grasp.

When he finally reaches the cables, Andoh tries to stop him from releasing them.

When Rohtul tries to take Vilsi Veylar hostage, he ends up defeated by both Batman.

When Lex Luthor tries to use his Kryptonite ring on Superman, it doesn't work due to the fact that Superman was actually Batman in disguise.

When a project comes her way, she tries to " understand the definition ( of the site ) in a verbal before finding the form.

When it is performed ineptly, or is vulgar, and especially if it is vulgar and witnessed by sleepers, magic can cause Paradox, a phenomenon in which reality tries to resolve contradictions between the consensus and the Mage's efforts.

When one tries to minimize this cost using gradient descent for the class of neural networks called multilayer perceptrons, one obtains the common and well-known backpropagation algorithm for training neural networks.

When Bunny's kidnappers call to arrange the ransom exchange, Walter tries to convince The Dude to keep the money and give the kidnappers a " ringer " suitcase filled with his dirty underwear.

When one tries to support one ’ s assumptions with reasons, one must make yet more assumptions.

When he tries to seize it, the panicked cat bites the narrator, and in a fit of rage, he seizes the animal, pulls a pen-knife from his pocket, and deliberately gouges out the cat's eye.

When they arrive at the shelters, Jack calls an assembly and tries to turn the others against Ralph, asking for them to remove him from his position.

When the original pairing tries to find out why Lucky does not put down his load ( at least not unless his master is prevailing on him to do something else ), Pozzo explains that Lucky is attempting to mollify him to prevent him from selling him.

When attacked by packs of hyenas or wild dogs a zebra group will huddle together with the foals in the middle while the stallion tries to ward them off.

When Spike tries to return for good in Season Four, the Initiative promptly captures him and fits him with a tracking device and a microchip that prevents him from harming humans.

" When Goro tries to tell her about the Japanese law of marriage, Butterfly interrupts and tells him that the Japanese law is not the law of her country, the United States.

When Piper tries to get her friends to leave by recounting Medea's villanous deeds, Medea counters that she was the victim, then tries to " Charm-speak " Leo & Jason into killing each other.

When Spider-Man tries to interfere, Iceman and Firestar turn their attention towards him, seeming to recall his role in bringing them together.

When they stop for a break, Danker tries to drive off with their luggage.

* Chirping: When a cheetah attempts to find another, or a mother tries to locate her cubs, it uses a high-pitched barking called chirping.