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Jacksonville: Transportation
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States
...Transportation Approaching the City Jacksonville International Airport (JIA), only minutes from the central business district, recently...230 flights in and out of the city every day. In addition to JIA, Jacksonville has two general aviation facilities, Craig Airport...
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Chinese Religions and Science
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...religions." However, Chinese scholars generally consider Confucianism, the School of Daoism ( Dao Jia ), and the School of Buddhism ( Fu Jia ) to be philosophies, whereas Daojiao ( Jiao of Daoism) and Fujiao ( Jiao of Buddhism) are considered...
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Health and Education
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education
...status at the levels of individual, household, and country, usually with a stronger effect than that of income. Based on Jia Wang and Dean Jamison's 1997 estimations, one additional year of education for the female population can avert six deaths...
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Ba Jin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...a tale of romance and revolution. Ba is best known for his trilogy Jiliu [torrent] (1931-40); its first volume, Jia, was translated into English as Family (1958). Enormously popular with China's young readers at the time, these semiautobiographical...
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Juvenile Arthritis
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
...have immune-mediated joint inflammation as their major manifestation. JRA is also known as juvenile idiopathic arthritis or JIA. The European League Against Rheumatism, or EULAR, refers to the disorder as juvenile chronic arthritis, or JCA. Description...
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2004 Summer Olympic Games gold medallists
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...Jones/ Thomas/ Henry* Australia DIVING Men Country Women Country 3m springboard Bo Peng China Jingjing Guo China 10m platform Jia Hu China Chantelle Newbery Australia 3m synchronized Nikolaos Siranidis, Thomas Bimis Greece Minxia Wu, Jingjing Guo China...
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Yu, Cao
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Shuibian, 1940), "Peking Man" (Beijing Ren, 1940) and a 1941 dramatic adaptation of Ba Jin's novel, "The Family" (Jia ). While all of what Cao Yu produced was well-accepted by critics and audiences alike, none of his later works ever prompted...
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Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
...have immune-mediated joint inflammation as their major manifestation. JRA is also known as juvenile idiopathic arthritis or JIA. The European League Against Rheumatism, or EULAR, refers to the disorder as juvenile chronic arthritis, or JCA. Description...
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Chinese art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...that was painted in black with designs of swirling spirals and geometric designs, sometimes with human faces. Later, at Ma-jia-yao in Gansu, brush-painted pottery became more sophisticated in the handling of the design. Knowledge of ancient Chinese...
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Chinese Religions, History of Science and Religion in China
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...pinhole apertures, and possibly the camera obscura, they were able to study the formation of inverted images and the idea of the focal point. Confucianism Confucianism is the English word for Ru-jia (School of Scholars), which was foun
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