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Look up: Ch`ien

  1. Ch'ien
    Heaven, symbolized by = in the Eight Trigrams (pa kua); the trigram of the male cosmic principle, yang, opposite of k'un. --W.T.C.
    Found on http://www.ditext.com/runes/c.html

  2. Chang Ch`ien
    Chinese explorer, the first man to bring back a reliable account of the lands of central Asia to the court of China. He was dispatched by the Han ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/54

  3. Chang Ch'ien
    (lived 2nd century BC) Chinese explorer who pioneered the Silk Road. ...
    Found on http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/

  4. Chang Cheng-Hsien
    `Chang Cheng-Hsien` is a Taiwanese baseball player who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Chinese Taipei baseball team which won the silver medal. He played as catcher.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_Cheng

  5. Chang Chi-hsien
    (from the article `Taoism`) ...of the Celestial Masters, centred at Lung-hu Shan (Dragon-Tiger Mountain, Kiang-si), had been eclipsed by the prestige of Mao Shan. At the end of ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/54

  6. Chang Chien
    a leading social reformer and industrial entrepreneur in early 20th-century China.[1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/54

  7. Chang-Lin Tien
    `Chang-lin Tien`, , as the 8th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1990-97), was the first Asian American and Chinese American to head a major U.S. university. Born in Wuhan, mainland China, Tien and his family fled to Taiwan in 1949 at the end of the Chinese Civil War. He earned a BS in mechanical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1955 and went on to a fellowship at the University of Louisville in 1956, where ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang-Lin_T

  8. Chant royal chrétien
    (from the article `chant royal`) Clément Marot in the 16th century was a master of this form, and his Chant royal chrétien, with its refrain `Santé au corps et Paradis à l`âme` ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/55

  9. Characters from Ile-Rien
    This is a list of characters from the fictional nation of Ile-Rien, the setting of five of Martha Wells' fantasy novels.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_

  10. Charles Beaubien
    `Charles Beaubien` was a French Canadian trader in the 18th century who became British Agent to the Miami Nation. He married Tacumwah, the mother of Chief Jean Baptiste de Richardville, after a bitter divorce in 1774 from her husband, Antoine Joseph Drouet de la Richerville, a trade rival. The cause of the divorce was control of a profitable 8 mile portage between the Maumee and Wabash Rivers that connected the Great Lakes and Canada to the Miss...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bea

  11. Charles F.X. O'Brien
    `Charles Francis Xavier O'Brien` (March 7 1879 – November 14 1940) was an American Democratic Party politician. He served as U.S. Representative from New Jersey's 12th Congressional District from 1921 to 1925. O'Brien was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on March 7, 1879. He attended the Jersey City Public Schools, Academy of St. Aloysius and Saint Peter's College. He graduated from Fordham University. He studied law at the New York Law Sch...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F.X

  12. Charles H. O'Brien
    `Charles Herbert O'Brien` (July 30, 1920 to January 19, 2007), was a Tennessee State Senator in the 83rd and 84th Tennessee General Assemblies, a justice on the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals (elected in 1970) and Tennessee Supreme Court (1987-1994), and the husband of well-known Tennessee Democratic politician Anna Belle Clement O'Brien, who was the sister of the Tennessee Governor Frank Clement and served as her brother's chief of staff an...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._

  13. Charles M. O'Brien
    `Charles Macnamar O'Brien` (born: - died: ) was a politician from Alberta, Canada. O'Brien was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1909 Alberta general election for the Socialist Party of Canada. He became a national organizer for the party, and leader of the Alberta branch. O'Brien served in office for one term and was defeated in the 1913 Alberta general election by Robert Campbell from the Conservative Party.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M._

  14. Charles O'Brien
    `Charles O'Brien` has been the name of several different notable people: *Charles O'Brien (Teamsters Union) (nicknamed `Chuckie`) was an associate of Jimmy Hoffa. *Charlie O'Brien (driver), Australian race car driver *Charles F.X. O'Brien was a politician in New Jersey, United States. *Charles H. O'Brien was a politician and judge in Tennessee, United States. *Charles M. O'Brien was a politician in Alberta, Canada. *Charlie O'Brien (Charles Hug...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_O'B

  15. Charlie O'Brien
    `Charles Hugh O'Brien` (born May 1, 1960 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a former Major League Baseball catcher who played for the Oakland Athletics (1985), Milwaukee Brewers (1987-90), New York Mets (1990-93), Atlanta Braves (1994-95), Toronto Blue Jays (1996-97), Chicago White Sox (1998), Anaheim Angels (1998-99) and Montreal Expos (2000). While growing up in Tulsa, O'Brien attended and graduated from Bishop Kelley High School. O'Brien was a solid def...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_O'B

  16. Château-Porcien
    `Château-Porcien` is a French commune in the Ardennes departement, in the Champagne-Ardenne region. Category:communes of Ardennes
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Château-Por

  17. Châtillon, Sébastien
    Châtillon, Sébastien: see Castalion, Sébastien.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A09

  18. Che Lan Vien
    `Che Lan Vien` was a great poet of Vietnam but he was not Cham. He was a Kinh. Category:Vietnamese poets Category:Year of birth missing
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Lan_Vie

  19. Chen Pi-hsien
    `Chen Pi-hsien` (born in 1950) is a well-known Taiwanese classical pianist. She has received honors at several international piano competitions and was praised as the `Chinese Miracle` by European media. She teaches at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and lives in Germany at present.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Pi-hsi

  20. Cheng Chien
    `Cheng Chien` (1882 - 1968) was a Chinese General. In 1921 he was Vice-Minister of War, from 1925 to 1927 the General commanding 6th Army. In 1928 he became Chairman of the Government of Hunan Province. From 1935 to 1937 he was Chief of the General Staff. When the Second Sino-Japanese War began Cheng Chien was made Commander in Chief of the 1st War Area in July 1937. He was also made Chairman of the Government of Henan Province from 1937 to 193...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Chien

  21. Chenghsien
    Chenghsien: see Zhengzhou, China.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A091

  22. Chester Thomas O'Brien
    `Chester Thomas O'Brien` was born at Lyons, New York on 1 August 1897.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Tho

  23. Chih hsien
    Chih' hsien` [ Chin. chih hsien , lit., (He who) knows (the) district.] An official having charge of a hsien, or administrative district, in China; a district magistrate, responsible for good order in his hsien (which see), and having jurisdiction in its civil and criminal cases.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/64

  24. Chih hsien
    • An official having charge of a hsien, or administrative district, in China; a district magistrate, responsible for good order in his hsien (which see), and having jurisdiction in its civil and criminal cases.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  25. China O'Brien
    `China O'Brien` was the first in a series of low-budget atypical 1980s martial arts films (`China O'Brien 2,` etc...) starring actress and martial artist Cynthia Rothrock.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_O'Bri


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