While Louis Wu was raised by Beowulf Shaeffer, in the first Ringworld novel Louis seems not to know who Shaeffer is.

The Long Shot — the ship flown to the galactic core by Beowulf Shaeffer in the short story At the Core and flown to the Pierson's Puppeteers ' fleet of worlds by Louis Wu, Speaker to Animals, Teela Brown, and Nessus in Ringworld — is built inside a # 4 General Products hull, most of which is filled with the advanced " quantum II " hyperdrive leaving only a small two-chamber living area.

Louis Wu was born in 2650 to Carlos Wu and Sharrol Janss.

Louis Wu is the second of two children born to Carlos Wu and Sharrol Janss.

Sharrol and Wu were married on a two-year contract arrangement ; Tanya Wu was born in 2649 and Louis a year later, 2650.

Soon, Wei's rivals Shu and Wu proclaimed their independence, leading China into the Three Kingdoms Period.

The protagonist Louis Wu thinks this indicates the Kzinti in Known Space have bred intelligence out of their females.

Most modern styles of t ' ai chi ch ' uan trace their development to at least one of the five traditional schools: Chen, Yang, Wu ( Hao ), Wu, and Sun.

However, Jiang Qing and Yao Wenyuan continued their denunciation of Wu Han and Peng Zhen.

Wu Hu chieftains and herdsmen clearly comprehended the selfishness of the nobility and the destruction of the country through their struggle for power and wealth.

* Wu Zixu, political advisor from Chu who has been employed at the court of the State of Wu during the reign of King Helü of Wu ; all Chinese people with the surname Wu consider him their first ancestor ( b. 526 BC )

Wu Qi gains the ire and distrust of Chu officials and aristocratic elite who are against his crusades to sweep up corruption in the state and limit their power.

When asked about their origins by the Wei embassy, the people of Wa claimed to be descendants of the Grand Count Tàibó of Wu, a historic figure of the Wu Kingdom around the Yangtze Delta of China.

Because of Chu's non-Zhou origin, the state was considered semi-barbarian and its rulersbeginning with King Wu in 704 BCproclaimed themselves kings in their own right.

In the Three Kingdoms period, both Shu and Wu fell when their respective capitals of Chengdu and Jianye fell.

Seizing their chance, the Manchus crossed the Great Wall after Ming border general Wu Sangui opened the gates at Shanhai Pass, and quickly overthrew Li's short-lived Shun Dynasty.

In the context of Morocco's Truth Commission of 1999 regarding torture and secret detentions, Wu and Livescu state that the fact that someone remained silent is no proof of their ignorance about a specific piece of information.

The name is found in Chinese historical texts describing the kingdom, and the most extensive descriptions are largely based on the report of two Chinese diplomats representing the Wu Kingdom of Nanking who sojourned in Funan in the mid-3rd century A. D .; however, the name " Funan " is not found in any texts of local origin, and it is not known what name the people of Funan gave to their country.

In January 2000, after their " seppuku ", the authors of Q formed a new group called Wu Ming, under which name many novels were published in several languages and countries.

The Summer Solstice occurs around 21 June and is the reason why Chinese refer to their festival as " Duan Wu " or " Duen Ng ".

In the 1990s, American hip-hop group The Wu Tang Clan arose, often making frequent references to Shaolin, sometimes as a name for their home, Staten Island, New York.

As a consequence of Ma Chao's defeat, the Di people turned their allegiance to Cao Hong and killed Wu Lan, one of Ma Chao and Zhang Fei's subordinates.

Again, many Shu officials attempted to dissuade Liu Bei from attacking Wu but Liu dismissed their advice.

Initially, Wu forces underestimated the enemy's tenacity due to their superiority in numbers.

As the advancing Shu army captured regions including Zigui, Wu County, Mount Ba and Mount Xing, Wu forces that set out from their fortifications to engage the enemy were nearly all annihilated.

Wu remained poor throughout his life, however, and did not have any children ; dissatisfied with the political climate of the time and with the corruption of the world, he spent much of his life as a hermit.

It is not uncommon to encounter children who grew up with a regional variant of Mandarin as their mother tongue with little or no fluency in a Wu variety at all.

Li Zhe was constantly in fear in exile, as Empress Dowager Wu had previously shown willingness to kill her own children — having forced Li Xián to commit suicide in 684 and having been rumored to have poisoned another son, Li Hong, in 675 — and whenever there would be imperial messengers arriving from then-capital Luoyang, he would consider committing suicide, fearing that they brought orders for even worse fates.

Wu Kung-i's children were also full time t ' ai chi ch ' uan teachers ; his oldest son Wu Ta-k ' uei, his second son, Wu Ta-ch ' i and his daughter, Wu Yen-hsia.

( She had gotten favor over his first wife, Empress Chen Jiao, after Chen was unable to bear Emperor Wu any children.

Unknown to the secret police is that the innkeeper, Wu Ning, was one of the general's lieutenants and has summoned Hsiao to help the children.

First encountered by Louis Wu in the short story " There is a Tide ".

On the Ringworld, there is an analogous ( and apparently more potent ) compound developed from Tree-of-Life, but they are mutually incompatible ; in The Ringworld Engineers, Louis Wu learns that the character Halrloprillalar died when in ARM custody after leaving the Ringworld, as a result of having taken boosterspice after having used the Ringworld equivalent.

Louis Gridley Wu is celebrating his 200th birthday.

The opening chapter of the original paperback edition of Ringworld featured Louis Wu teleporting eastward around the Earth in order to extend his birthday.

The magazine Different Worlds, issue 37, featured a Ringworld adventure, " Louis Wu & His Motley Crew.

Kin is excited about the massive task at hand ; just like Ringworld's Louis Wu whom she parallels she is over two hundred years old, and thus constantly under the threat of growing tired of life.

At one point, Louis Wu, while visiting the Kzin homeworld and given access to the Kzinti Patriarch's game preserve, was confronted by a young Kzin and his father.

", Louis Wu responded with a grin ( baring of the teeth being a Kzin challenge to battle ) and the older Kzin responded " NO ".

Nessus explains this to Louis Wu and the crew of the Long Shot thus:

Their initial path is revealed to be out of the plane of the galaxy, but no mention is made of Louis Wu noticing trajectory when flying there on the Long Shot in Ringworld.

The Spill Mountain People are the only species outside of the Ghouls to know of this means of communication until Louis Wu spoke to the protector Tunesmith.

Louis Gridley Wu, a fictional character, is the main protagonist in the Ringworld series of books, written by Larry Niven.

Louis Wu later appears in the short story There Is A Tide, where he becomes the first human to make contact with the Trinoc species.

* The Incompleat Known Space Concordance — " Wu, Louis "