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- Qin Shi Huangdi Qin Shi Huangdi, auch Ch'in Shih Huang-ti, (259-210 v.
- Shi Huangdi
- NIHON GWAI-SHI
- Qin Shi Huangdi - historia.
- Au bord de l'eau [Shi Nai'an] - fiche de lecture.
- Au bord de l'eau [Shi Nai'an] - Fiche de lecture.
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HUI SHI
(- 380-300)
ET GONGSUN LONG
(320-250)
De Hui Shi on sait qu'il était originaire, comme
Mozi et Zhuangzi,...
HUI SHI (- 380-300) ET GONGSUN LONG (320-250) De Hui Shi on sait qu'il était originaire, comme Mozi et Zhuangzi, de l'Etat de Song (Henan actuel), qu'il devint premier ministre du roi d'une principauté voisine et qu'il disputa souvent avec Zhuangzi pour qui sa mort fut à la fois la perte de sa tête de Turc favorite et celle d'un ami dont la passion d'ergoter sti mulait sa pensée et sa verve. Ses écrits sont perdus et nous ne connaissons ses idées que grâce au dernier chapitre du Zhuangzi («Le...
- Shi Tao - vie et oeuvre du peintre.
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- Shi Tao - dessin & gravure.
- ROK-KOKU-SHI
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Middle East - Geography.
though overall they have improved considerably since the 1970s. This variation reflects the different levels of wealth and development in countries of the Middle East. Inthe highly developed country of Israel the infant mortality rate was 8 deaths per 1000 live births in 1997. By comparison, the rate per 1000 live births was 71 in less-developed Egypt and 75 in Yemen. A Ethnic Groups and Languages Arabs make up the majority of the people of the Middle East, accounting for almost the entire popu...
- Shi Tao ou Che T'ao.
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Bahrain - country.
A Religion Almost all Bahrainis and the majority of nonnatives are followers of Islam (Muslims). About 70 percent of all native Bahrainis belong to the Shia branch of Islam, whilethe remainder, including the ruling al-Khalifa clan, are adherents of the Sunni branch. Non-Muslims, including Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, and Jews, account for 15percent of the total population. High unemployment among the Shia population has caused considerable discontent on the part of this group toward the Sunni...
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Persian Gulf War.
to “use all necessary means” to force Iraq from Kuwait if Iraq remained in the country after January 15, 1991. The Iraqis rejected the ultimatum. Soon after the vote,the United States agreed to a direct meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Iraq’s foreign minister. The two sides met on January 9. Neither offered tocompromise. The United States underscored the ultimatum, and the Iraqis refused to comply with it, even threatening to attack Israel. For the United States, themeeting was...
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Persian Gulf War - History.
to “use all necessary means” to force Iraq from Kuwait if Iraq remained in the country after January 15, 1991. The Iraqis rejected the ultimatum. Soon after the vote,the United States agreed to a direct meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Iraq’s foreign minister. The two sides met on January 9. Neither offered tocompromise. The United States underscored the ultimatum, and the Iraqis refused to comply with it, even threatening to attack Israel. For the United States, themeeting was...
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Persian Gulf War - U.
to “use all necessary means” to force Iraq from Kuwait if Iraq remained in the country after January 15, 1991. The Iraqis rejected the ultimatum. Soon after the vote,the United States agreed to a direct meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Iraq’s foreign minister. The two sides met on January 9. Neither offered tocompromise. The United States underscored the ultimatum, and the Iraqis refused to comply with it, even threatening to attack Israel. For the United States, themeeting was...
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Lebanon (country) - country.
during the civil war. Within the country, thousands of Shia Muslim refugees fled fighting in southern Lebanon in the 1990s and moved into shantytowns in Beirut’ssouthern suburbs. Lebanon’s major cities were greatly affected by the civil war. Beirut has gradually regained most of its prewar population and remains the country’s largest city. Tripoli,the northern port, is the second largest city. Jūniyah, north of Beirut, was developed as a wartime port and subsequently had a population boom. Za ḩl...
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Yemen - country.
port. Al Ḩudaydah (155,110), in the Tih āmah, is the second largest port. Ta‘izz, (178,043), in the highlands above Aden, is an important commercial and light industrialcenter. Among Yemen’s larger towns are Şa‘dah, far to the north; Dham ār, Yarim, and Ibb, in the middle region; Al Mukall ā, on the southern coast; and in Hadhramaut,the towns of Shib ām, Say‘ ūn, and Tar īm. C Language Nearly all Yemenis speak Arabic. However, the country’s extremely rugged terrain, widely separated population...
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Saudi Arabia - country.
C Natural Resources Some of the world’s largest oil and natural gas fields lie beneath Saudi Arabia and its offshore waters, representing the country’s most economically important naturalresource. In 2007 Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves were estimated at 264 billion barrels. Before the discovery and exploitation of these reserves in the mid-20th century,Saudi Arabia was one of the poorest countries in the world. Its relatively small population subsisted in a harsh environment with little agricultur...
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la philosophie en Islam, aient tous été des Arabes de race ou de nation; un grand nombre notamment furent des Iraniens; ils ont également écrit en persan ( à commencer par Avicenne lui-même) et parfois uniquement en persan (l'Ismaélien Nâsir Khosraw).
ment dans l'admirable épopée mystique persane de Farîdaddîn Attâr (xu• siècle) ; Salamân el Absâl sont les deux héros de la partie finale du Livre des Directives (Ishârât). Ce ne sont point là des allé gories, mais des symboles. Non pas affa bulations de vérités théoriques pouvant être dites autrement, mais figures rypifiant le drame intime personnel, l'apprentissage de toute une vie. Le symbole est chiffre et silence; il dit et ne dit pa...
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chinoise, littérature.
conditionné par une bonne maîtrise des classiques confucianistes. Cette pratique, qui se perpétuera presque sans discontinuer jusqu’au début du XXe siècle, a contribué naturellement à figer la tradition littéraire nationale. 3 LA PÉRIODE CLASSIQUE ( III E-XII E SIÈCLE) À partir du début de la période classique et jusqu’au VII e siècle, la Chine est non seulement morcelée en différents États engagés dans des conflits perpétuels, mais elle a en outre à subir les invasions répétées des tribus b...
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Tajikistan - country.
by more than 100 percent due to a high birth rate and improvements in medical care. During the early 1990s, however, the growth rate began to decline due to civilwar and emigration. A Ethnic Groups and Languages Tajiks constitute the largest ethnic group in Tajikistan, making up about 65 percent of the population. The peoples who live in Gorno-Badakhshan, located in the Pamirs,are classified as Tajiks, although their languages and customs are distinct. The largest minority group in the country...
- Qin Shi Huangdi o u Ts'in Che Houang-ti, e mpereur chinois de 221 à 210 avant J.
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Chinese Literature
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INTRODUCTION
Chinese Literature, writings of the Chinese people, with a continuous history of more than 3,000 years.
(Huang) River basin region in the north. The verses are in lines of four characters (or syllables) and use rhyme and alliteration (repetition of the initial letter). Confuciusquoted them in his works. Because he described them as “without depraved thoughts,” all the verses in the Shi jing have been treated as moral allegories. (4) The Li ji (Book of Ritual ) contains detailed discussions of the principles of conduct at court and in private ceremonies. Although the Han dynasty and later ruler...
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Chinese Literature
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INTRODUCTION
Chinese Literature, writings of the Chinese people, with a continuous history of more than 3,000 years.
(Huang) River basin region in the north. The verses are in lines of four characters (or syllables) and use rhyme and alliteration (repetition of the initial letter). Confuciusquoted them in his works. Because he described them as “without depraved thoughts,” all the verses in the Shi jing have been treated as moral allegories. (4) The Li ji (Book of Ritual ) contains detailed discussions of the principles of conduct at court and in private ceremonies. Although the Han dynasty and later ruler...
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USA - Iraq War - History.
B Making the Case for War B1 “Neoconservatives” and the Bush Doctrine Long before President George W. Bush took office in 2001, elements in or close to the Republican Party had called repeatedly for firmer U.S. steps against Iraq,including a war if necessary to force a regime change. One such group authored a white paper in 1996 called A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm , which was later sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of Israel’s Likud Party. It advocated...
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U.S.-Iraq War - U.S. History.
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U.S.-Iraq War, military action begun in
B Making the Case for War B1 “Neoconservatives” and the Bush Doctrine Long before President George W. Bush took office in 2001, elements in or close to the Republican Party had called repeatedly for firmer U.S. steps against Iraq,including a war if necessary to force a regime change. One such group authored a white paper in 1996 called A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm , which was later sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of Israel’s Likud Party. It advocated...
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Azerbaijan - country.
second most important industrial center after Baku. A Ethnic Groups Azerbaijan, including the autonomous exclave of Naxçivan, is populated mostly by ethnic Azerbaijanis, who are also known as Azeris. The ethnic composition of thecountry changed due to a civil war between the government of Azerbaijan and Armenian secessionists in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. Beginning in 1988, when thepeople of Nagorno-Karabakh unilaterally decided to secede from Azerbaijan, nearly the entire Azerbaijani popula...
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La sépulture du premier empereur de Chine, Qin Shi Huangdi (mausolée)
• Seuls les livres scientifiques et techniques, utiles notamment pour l'agriculture et les grands travaux d 'intérêt public , sont épargnés . • De même sont sauvés les ouvrages de divination , ainsi que les «magiciens » qui les commentent. Car ces livres contiennent, l'empereur en est sûr, les secrets de l'élixir de vie, qui donne accès au paradis des Imm ortels . LA QUbE D'IMMOIUALITt •S'il dénie à quiconque le droit de penser , le Fils du Ciel se pos...
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mausolée de Qin Shi Huangdi - Architecture
• Seuls les livres scientifiques et techniques, utiles notamment pour l'agricukure et les grands travaux d'intérêt public. sont épargnés . • De même sont sauvés les ouvrages de divination , ainsi que les •magiciens• qui les commentent Car ces livres contiennent, l'empereur en est sOr, les secrets de l'élixir de vie, qui donne accès au paradis des Immortels. • S'il dénie à quiconque le dro~ de penser, le Fils du Ciel se pose , en ce qui le concerne, d...
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Terrorism.
exploitation, ethnic discrimination, and religious persecution. Perceived inequities in the distribution of wealth and political power have led some terrorists to attempt tooverthrow democratically elected governments. To achieve a fairer society, they would replace these governments with socialist or communist regimes. Left-wingterrorist groups of the 1960s and 1970s with such aims included Germany’s Baader-Meinhof Gang, Italy’s Red Brigades, and the Weather Underground ( see Weathermen) in the...
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Iraq - country.
The Euphrates begins in Turkey, crosses Syria, and enters Iraq at Abū Kam āl. The flow of the Euphrates into Iraq has been greatly reduced by dams built by Turkeyand Syria. The gradient of the Euphrates above the town of H īt, in west central Iraq, is steep. In the 2,640 km (1,640 mi) from its source in Turkey to H īt, the river fallsfrom 3,000 m (10,000 ft) to a low water elevation of 50 m (170 ft) above sea level, an average drop of 1 m per km (6 ft per mi). In Iraq below H īt the fall is very...
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Spread of Islam - History.
Muhammad died in 632 and was succeeded by Abu Bakr, the father of Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha. Abu Bakr was the first caliph ( khalifah, Arabic for “successor”) of Islam. Like Muhammad, Abu Bakr was a member of the Quraysh clan. While neither Abu Bakr nor any subsequent caliph claimed the role of prophet, they wereleaders of this new religious enterprise that was quickly becoming a political entity as well. The first four caliphs, all of whom were selected by some form of council ofMuslims,...
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Iran - country.
Zagros mountains. In the more arid central part of the country, wild pistachio and other drought-resistant trees grow in areas that have not been disturbed by humanactivity. Tamarisk and other salt-tolerant bushes grow along the margins of the Dasht-e Kavir. A wide variety of native mammals, reptiles, birds, and insects inhabit Iran. Many species of mammals—including wolves, foxes, bears, mountain goats, red mountainsheep, rabbits, and gerbils—continue to thrive. Others—including Caspian tigers,...
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Islam.
commanded to face the Kaaba, an ancient shrine in the city of Mecca. The Qur’an also refers to the recitation of parts of the Qur’an as a form of prayer. However, evenwith its numerous references, the Qur’an alone does not give exact instructions for this central ritual of prayer. The most detailed descriptions of the rituals for prayer derive from the example set by the prophet Muhammad and are preserved in later Islamic traditions. Somedetails of these rituals vary, however all Muslims agree t...
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Secrète, souvent repliée sur elle-même, la Chine depuis des
siècles fascine et inquiète l'Occident.
Himalaya Huang He Mandchourie Mongolie-Intérieure Shaanxi Shandong Shanxi Sichuan Tian Shan Tibet Xinjiang (région autonome ouïgoure du) Yangzi Jiang Les livres Chine - karst à tourelles, au Yunnan, page 1059, volume 2 Chine - Huang He (Le fleuve Jaune), page 1062, volume 2 Les aspects humains La population du pays, qui est composée à 92 % de Chinois Hans, et, pour les 8 % restants, de cinquante-quatre peuples, appelés minorités nationales, est très inégalement répartie. La côt...
- Baghd?d - geography.