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Unification Church
Unification Church religious sect founded (1954) in Korea by Sun Myung Moon . Moon moved to the United States in 1971. He and his wife, Hak J. Han, are seen by followers as "True Parents." He claims to have communicated with Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and the Buddha in his spiritual search, and ha... Read more
Johann Gustav Droysen
Johann Gustav Droysen , 1808-84, German historian. A member of the Frankfurt Parliament , he was a leading proponent of German unification under the leadership of his native Prussia. His Geschichte der preussischen Politik [political history of Prussia] (14 vol., 1855-86) poses the goal of German... Read more
Guangdong
Guangdong or Kwangtung , province (1994 est. pop. 66,910,000), c.76,000 sq mi (196,891 sq km), S China. The capital is Guangzhou . On coastal islands and adjacent mainland territories are Hong Kong and Macao . The island of Hainan , once part of Guangdong, became a separate province in 1988... Read more
Chinese Dynasties
Chinese Dynasties Chinese Dynasties Dynasty Characteristics and History Hsia  c.1994-c.1523 BC Semilegendary Emperor Yu built irrigation channels, reclaimed land. Bronze weapons, chariots, domestic animals used. Wheat, millet cultivat... Read more
Felice Orsini
Felice Orsini , 1819-58, Italian patriot who attempted to assassinate the French emperor Napoleon III. He was a follower of Mazzini in the movement for Italian unification. As a young man he became an active revolutionary in the Papal States and in Tuscany. He was jailed (1855-56) by the Austrians f... Read more
Giacomo Antonelli
Giacomo Antonelli , 1806-76, Italian cardinal and statesman of the Roman Catholic Church, adviser to Pope Pius IX . He received the red hat of the cardinalate in 1847, presided over the council drafting the constitution for the Papal States, and became the premier of the pope's first constitutional... Read more
Sun Myung Moon
Sun Myung Moon , 1920-, Korean religious leader. He was an engineering student and dock worker before founding (1954) the Unification Church with a doctrine loosely based on Christianity as interpreted by Moon, who has declared (2004) himself the "Messiah." Moon introduced the movement to the ... Read more
Han
Han , dynasty of China that ruled from 202 BC to AD 220. Liu Pang, the first Han emperor, had been a farmer, minor village official, and guerrilla fighter under the Ch'in dynasty. During the period of civil strife that followed the fall of the Ch'in , he advanced from the Huai River valley, defeate... Read more
Attica
Attica , region of ancient Greece, a triangular area at the eastern end of central Greece, around Athens . According to Greek legend, the four Attic tribes were founded by Ion; in later legend Theseus combined 12 townships into a single state. This process of unification, which probably occurred ov... Read more
British North America Act
British North America Act law passed by the British Parliament in 1867 that provided for the unification of the Canadian provinces into the dominion of Canada. Until 1982 the act also functioned as the constitution of Canada. The act enumerated the powers of the provincial legislatures and gave the... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Han unification"

Han
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...AD 220. Liu Pang, the first Han emperor, had been a farmer...Under Liu Pang and the succeeding Han emperors the task of unification begun by the Ch'in was carried...administration was retained, and the Han period saw the beginnings of one...
Unification Church
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Unification Church religious sect founded (1954...States in 1971. He and his wife, Hak J. Han, are seen by followers as "True Parents...as the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification for World Christianity, the church...
Quin Shi Huang-Di
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...all the other kingdoms. His unification of China not only ended six...China's six other kingdoms. Han, Zhao, and Wei were the three...launch frontal attacks upon Han, Zhao, and Wei, and then...for the final unification. Han, the weakest kingdom, was...
Chinese Dynasties
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...403-221 BC Ch'in  221-206 BC Unification of China under harsh rule of Shih Huang-ti...Roads, canals, much of the Great Wall built. Han  202 BC-AD 220 Unification furthered, but harshness lessened and Confucianism...
Six Dynasties
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Six Dynasties period of Chinese history between the fall of the Han dynasty (AD 220) and the unification of China under the Sui dynasty (AD 589). It is named for the six successive dynasties that appeared in S China during the period...
Guangdong
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...interior are at Shantou on the Han River delta and at Guangzhou...Chinese suzerainty during the unification under the Ch'in dynasty...firmly absorbed during the Han dynasty. Guangdong was the...his drive (1920s) for the unification of the country.
Sun Myung Moon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1920) was the founder of the Unification Church, a movement combining...1950. The beginning of the Unification Church as a distinct organization...Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity. By...marriage, Moon married Hak Ja Han, an event viewed by the movement...
Moon, Sun Myung (1920-)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, more popularly referred to as the Unification Church. Moon was born in...moved to Seoul and founded the Unification Church in 1953. Some of his...his present wife, Hak Ja Han, who has, in bearing 12...
Ssu-ma Ch'ien
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...in (221-207 B.C.) and Han (from 202 B.C.) dynasties...with that of the contemporary Han emperor (Wu-ti). These...noblemen and officials (in the Han period), together with short...political history before its unification under one empire in 221 B...
Moravia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...tributaries. A fertile agricultural area that encompasses the Haná region (noted both for farming and horse breeding...revolution during which the Czechs of Bohemia and Moravia demanded unification of their historic lands and creation of a common diet, Moravia...

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Mohism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...declined rapidly soon after the imperial unification of 221 b.c.e., to be rediscovered...x2013; c. 230 b.c.e.), and Han Feizi (c. 280 – 233 b.c.e.), as well as in the Han period texts (206 b.c.e. –...
Vietnam
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism ...no explanation. Early records also indicate that the late Han-dynasty governor of Chiao-chou, Shih Hsieh (Si Nhiep...local cults under the Buddhist umbrella, and aided in the unification of the country. In return, the Lý kings supported...

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Rep. Han Appointed as Foreign Minister; NIS Chief Becomes Unification Minister.
Newspaper article from: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea); 3/27/2001; 700+ words ; ...Korea policy, to the post of unification minister, and appointed Rep. Han Seung-soo, 65, of the splinter...characteristic. Park said that Han served a tour of duty as ambassador...Chief Presidential Secretary Han Kwang-ok was one of the highlights...
(LEAD) Former Unification Minister Inaugurated as New Red Cross Head.
News Wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea; 12/16/2004; 604 words ; ...Dec. 16 (Yonhap) -- Former Unification Minister Han Wan-sang took office as the new...prepare for a new leap," said Han at his inaugural ceremony. "We...distribution and volunteer work." Han's inauguration came after President...
Bush Stresses Family in Tokyo Speech; Former President Addresses Followers of Unification Church Leader's Wife
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/15/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church. In a half-hour speech that was...Peace, whose founder and head is Hak Ja Han Moon, wife of the Unification Church leader. Hak Ja Han Moon said tonight that she and her husband...
Min. Lim Meets KEDO Chief Over NK Reactors Charles Kartman, executive director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), met Unification Minister Lim Dong-won yesterday.
Newspaper article from: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea); 6/4/2001; 477 words ; ...New York, where his nomination was formally approved. In addition to meeting the unification minister, Kartman also met with Foreign Affairs-Trade Minister Han Seung-soo yesterday afternoon and had talks with the chairman of KEDO's executive...
Mark E. Lewis. The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han.(Book review)
Magazine article from: China Review International; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...society in the Eastern Han. Meanwhile, the local...appropriately after the unification is that the combative...Warring States period, the unification by Qin was not the historical...with Jia Yi, a Western Han thinker, argues that...paradox the subsequent Han dynasty faced. On the...
Pro-unification activists blast S. Korea's 'arbitrary' policy on inter-Korean exchange.
News Wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea; 7/30/2009; 664 words ; ...discriminates against the pro-unification movement. The Unification Ministry recently barred the...largest gathering of the civic unification movement," Park Deok-shin...city this weekend. Kim Dong-han, a professor at Dongguk University...
Premier Han accuses N. Korea of meddling in S. Korea's presidential election.
News Wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea; 6/12/2007; 494 words ; ...June 11 (Yonhap) -- Prime Minister Han Duk-soo accused North Korea Monday of...intervention in our domestic affairs," Han told parliament, adding that he will instruct the unification minister to get the North to stop doing...
FORMER SOUTH KOREAN UNIFICATION MINISTER TO DISCUSS STABILIZATION AND PEACE ON KOREAN PENINSULA, IN NORTHEAST ASIA
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/12/2006; 700+ words ; ...release: Former Republic of Korea Unification Department Minister Sehyun Jeong...s annual Ambassador Pyo Wook Han Lecture Series on Korean/U...cooperation," says Jongwoo Han, director of the lecture program...South. Ambassador Pyo Wook Han '42, for whom the lecture...
Seoul's unification minister seeks dialogue with N. Korea in anniversary.
News Wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea; 3/3/2009; 700+ words ; ...2 (Yonhap) -- Seoul's unification minister reaffirmed Monday...anniversary of the Ministry of Unification. Pyongyang cut off official...S. scholar, as the new unification minister in January. The...communist North Korea. Song Han-ho, who served as the ministry...
Major media ignore ties connecting Bush to Unification Church. (former Pres. George Bush makes speeches on behalf of church's Rev. Sun Myung Moon in Tokyo, Washington DC, and Buenos Aires)(Column)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 9/12/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...power-broker who heads the Unification church. Moon's global empire...relationship with Rev. Moon or the Unification church," Bush spokesman...circulation. Yet, financed by the Unification church's deep pockets...by Moon's wife, Hak Ja Han Moon. In Tokyo, Bush addressed...