Cienfuegos
Cienfuegos , city (1995 est. pop. 125,000), capital of Cienfuegos prov., central Cuba, a port on the Caribbean Sea. It is the marketing and processing center of a region producing sugarcane, tobacco, coffee, and rice; it also has an oil refinery, rum distilleries, fish canneries. The city is Cuba's leading sugar exporting port as well as a major fishing port. Founded in 1819 by French emigrants from Louisiana and named for one of the original founders, Cienfuegos was destroyed by a tropical storm in 1825 and later rebuilt.
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The 2000 meeting of the society for Buddhist-Christian studies. (News and views).
Magazine article from: Buddhist-Christian Studies; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...represent these three categories: Kuei-feng Tsung-mi, Ch'eng-kuan, and Ta-hui Tsung-kao (with whom she also associated contemporary...Their liberation was partial or shallow. Ta-hui Tsung-kao, on the other hand, taught that words...
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Indians are unbeatable in tea sipping
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 7/11/2007; 700+ words
; ...Turkey and Russia. During the Tsung dynasty (960 - 1280) tea was used widely. Emperor Hui Tsung (1101 - 1125) patronised the tea...of tea. According to the legend, Hui Tsung had become so obsessed with tea that...
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Moving role in saving Chinese art.(Arts)(Critic At Large)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 2/2/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Japan. Always polite and thoughtful, he gave me one of his writings in the "Slender Gold" script of the Sung emperor Hui-tsung. Mounted on a white-and-gold vertical silk scroll, it now hangs in my living room, treasured not only for its...
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Brian Halford: We'll dommie-nate the Olympics.(Sport)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England); 7/28/2005; 700+ words
; ...You can expect China to be prime medal contenders in 2012. Dommies have been huge there ever since 1120AD when Emperor Hui Tsung took to the game, duelling away with his son Kao in his opulent palaces. In the far north, eskimos first embraced dommies...
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Painting by Chinese emperor sold for dlrs 3 million in possible record
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 4/23/2002; 385 words
; ...sale at a Beijing hotel had attracted considerable media attention for being the first-ever auction of a work by Sung Hui-tsung, the last emperor of the Northern Sung dynasty who lived from 1082- 1135 A.D. The Beijing Evening News did not identify...
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Emperor's painting fetches record price
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/24/2002; 222 words
; VCHINA: An 800-year-old silk painting of birds by the Sung dynasty emperor Sung Hui-tsung sold for 25.3 million yuan (pounds 2m) at an auction in Beijing yesterday. The price is believed to be a record for a Chinese artwork.
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Surviving Treasures of Ancient China
Newspaper article from: AsianWeek; 10/24/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...passed their personal collections down to their imperial successors through the centuries. During the rule of the emperor Hui-tsung (1101-1125), bronze ritual objects were included and a style of acquisition was formulated that continued to be...
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Good Life.(Correction Notice)
Magazine article from: Newsweek International; 10/31/2005; 700+ words
; ...up a few jewels for their partners, too. Better Than Green A thousand years ago, during the Sung dynasty, Emperor Hui-tsung singled out white tea as the "pinnacle of refinement." Hailing from China's Fujian province mountains, this elite...
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Howard Entertainment Calendar
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/17/2002; 700+ words
; ...783-8000 or www.baltimoresymphony.org. GEMINI TRIO -- 8-10 p.m. Sunday. Faculty members Hsiu-Hui Wang, Sheng-Tsung Wang and Benjamin Myers perform music by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Mendelssohn. Smith Theater, Howard Community...
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Taiwanese Inventors Develop Liquid Cooled Heat Sink
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 8/18/2008; 478 words
; ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- Jen-Lu Hu, Hao-Hui Lin and Tsung-Ching Sun, all from Tainan, Taiwan, have developed a liquid cooled heat sink. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark...
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Hui-Tsung
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Hui-Tsung The Chinese emperor Hui-Tsung (1082-1135) was the eighth Sung emperor, an outstanding...Emperor Shen-tsung and a gifted concubine, Lady Ch'en, Hui-tsung came to the throne unexpectedly on the death of the young emperor...
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Ta-hui Tsung-kao
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Ta-hui Tsung-kao (Jap., Daie Soko , 1089–...The Seal of Silent Illumination). Ta-hui called this jazen , unwise Zen, dismissing those who practise it. Ta-hui gave to this position the name mokushu zen...
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Hui-tsung
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Hui-tsung (1082–1135). Sung dynasty emperor in China, who strongly promoted Taoism. He encouraged the formation of the Taoist canon ( Tao-tsang ) and built many monasteries.
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Kao-tsung
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Southern Sung. As the ninth son of Emperor Hui-tsung (1082-1135) and child of a concubine...to the throne, but after Emperor Ch'in-tsung (1100-1161) and the abdicated Hui-tsung were taken prisoner, he ascended the throne...
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Liu Tsung-Yüan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Short Political Career Liu Tsung-y ü an's growing...years, from 805, to 815, Liu Tsung-y ü an stayed as subprefect...the sixth Ch'an patriarch, Hui-neng, who attained great...edict reached Liu-chou, Liu Tsung-y ü an, whose health...
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