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Sun Yat-sen died on March 12, 1925, creating a power vacuum in the Kuomintang.
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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.
Sun Yat-sen was declared as President, but Sun was forced to turn power over to Yuan Shikai, who commanded the New Army and was Prime Minister under the Qing government, as part of the agreement to let the last Qing monarch abdicate ( a decision Sun would later regret ).
** 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.
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.
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He became the Commandant of the Kuomintang's Whampoa Military Academy, and took Sun's place as leader of the KMT when Sun died in 1925.
Kuomintang ideology promoted the view that the souls of Party martyrs who died fighting for the Kuomintang, the revolution, and the party founder Dr. Sun Yatsen were sent to heaven.
Cotten starred with Jennifer Jones in four films: the wartime domestic drama Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), the romantic drama Love Letters ( 1945 ), the western Duel in the Sun ( 1946 ), and the critically acclaimed Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ), in which he played a melancholy artist who becomes obsessed with a girl who may have died many years ago.
The Kuomintang used traditional Chinese religious ceremonies, the souls of Party martyrs who died fighting for the Kuomintang and the revolution and the party founder Dr. Sun Yatsen were sent to heaven according to the Kuomintang party.
When party leader Sun Yat-Sen died in May 1925, he was succeeded by a rightist, Chiang Kai-shek ( 1887 – 1977 ), who was opposed to Mao's involvement.
Midnight died as a result of their second battle, but was later resurrected as " Midnight Sun " by the alien Kree in cloned body and gifted with cosmic powers strong enough to challenge the Silver Surfer.
He died at Sebastopolis, and was buried there, near the Temple of the Sun.
Sun Quan died in 252 at the age of 70.
Soon after, Liu Biao died while Cao Cao was preparing a major campaign to subjugate both Liu Biao and Sun Quan under his control, precipitating a major confrontation.
Sun Quan did agree to Zhou Yu's plans to consider attacking Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu ( who controlled the modern southern Shaanxi ) to try to take over their territories, but after Zhou Yu died in 210, the plans were abandoned.
Regretting his actions, Sun Quan tried to recall Yu Fan back to Jianye, only to learn that Yu had died in exile.
Later in 241, the crown prince Sun Deng died — an event that left open the issue of succession and appeared to mark the start of a precipitous decline in Sun Quan's mental health.
Fanned by gossip from his daughter Sun Dahu ( 孫大虎 ), Sun Quan blamed the princes ' mother Consort Wang for this — and she died in fear.
Later that year, Sun Quan died at the age of 70, and Sun Liang succeeded him.
In the movie The Weird Man by the Shaw Brothers Sun Quan is shown at the end of film and Sun Ce names him successor before he died from his injuries sustained by Xu Gong and Yu Ji's spirit.
** Lady Bu Lianshi ( 步練師 ), related to Bu Zhi, bore Sun Luban and Sun Luyu, died in 238, posthumously honored empress
*** Lady Sun ( 孫氏 ), personal name unknown, married Liu Zuan ( 劉纂 ), died at a young age
" Sun died in 1925 with no clear successor and leadership of the government, now named the Nationalist Government, rested in a series of Leninist-style dual party and state committees, the most powerful of which was the policy-making Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang.
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Besides doing a single song, `` When The Sun Comes Out '', they worked on the ambitious American-Negro Suite, for voices and piano, as well as songs for films.
Only if the corpse had been properly embalmed and entombed in a mastaba, could the dead live again in the Fields of Yalu and accompany the Sun on its daily ride.
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 °).
Depending on the distance Van Helden assumes Aristarchus used for the distance to the Moon, his calculated distance to the Sun would fall between 380 and 1, 520 Earth radii.
* 1989 – A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.
Arizona State University has an active extracurricular involvement program ( Sun Devil Involvement Center ) with over 600 registered clubs and organizations on campus.
Located on the 3rd floor of the Memorial Union, the Sun Devil Involvement Center ( SDIC ) provides opportunities for student involvement through clubs, sororities, fraternities, community service, leadership, student government, and co-curricular programming.
Once on course towards the Moon, the crew put the spacecraft into a rotisserie " barbecue " mode in which the craft rotated along its long axis three times per hour to ensure even heat distribution about the spacecraft from the Sun.
The Executive Yuan approved Arbor Day in the spirit of Dr. Sun that year and has since been celebrated on March 12 for this purpose.
Western astrology is founded on the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies such as the Sun, Moon, planets, which are analyzed by their movement through signs of the zodiac ( spatial divisions of the ecliptic ) and by their aspects ( angles ) relative to one another.
In his Rudolphine Tables ( 1627 ), Johannes Kepler used a prototype of year zero which he labeled Christi ( Christ ) between years labeled Ante Christum ( Before Christ ) and Post Christum ( After Christ ) on the mean motion tables for the Sun, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury.
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 %.
However, according to Lucius Tarrutius of Firmum, Romulus and Remus were conceived in the womb on the 23rd day of the Egyptian month Choiac, at the time of a total eclipse of the Sun.
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.
In the case of an observer on Earth, the direction of a star's velocity varies during the year as Earth revolves around the Sun ( or strictly speaking, the barycenter of the solar system ), and this in turn causes the apparent position of the star to vary.
A common theme is a mountain which blocked the Sun, but on the right day would allow the tiniest fraction to re-emerge on the other side for a ' double sunset '.
For approximately two to three weeks on either side of November 30, Antares is not visible in the night sky, because it is near conjunction with the Sun ; this period of invisibility is longer in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere, since the star's declination is significantly south of the celestial equator.
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.
His works were so influential that late in the 9th century Notker the Stammerer, a monk of the Monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland, wrote that " God, the orderer of natures, who raised the Sun from the East on the fourth day of Creation, in the sixth day of the world has made Bede rise from the West as a new Sun to illuminate the whole Earth ".
# Exposure to ultraviolet light: Concentration of ultraviolet light ( particularly UVB light ) from the Sun may have some effect on efficacy of the BCG vaccine.
In 1616, on the orders of Paul V, Bellarmine summoned Galileo, notified him of a forthcoming decree of the Congregation of the Index condemning the Copernican doctrine of the mobility of the Earth and the immobility of the Sun, and ordered him to abandon it .< ref > Blackwell ( 1991, p. 126 ).
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