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	Mandarin Design Daily:The MEG Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Magazine style cover image with a rainbow insert.
		More Free Tips and Tricks on the Mandarin Main Page Click Here
		Mandarin Archives 2006: J F M A 2005: J F M A M J J A S O N D 2004: J F M A M J J A S O N D
	www.mandarindesign.com /blogger.html (706 words)

	MANDARIN - LoveToKnow Article on MANDARIN
		The term mandarin is not, in its western usage, applied indiscriminately to all civil and military officials, but only to those who are entitled to wear a button, which is a spherical knob, about an inch in diameter, affixed to the top of the official cap or hat.
		The mandarin language is the Chinese, which is spoken in official and legal circles; it is also spoken over a considerable portion of the country, particularly the northern and central parts, though not perhaps with the same purity.
		Mandarin duck (anas galericulata) and Mandarin orange (citrus nobilis) possibly derive their names, by analogy, from the sense of superiority implied in the title mandarin.
	1.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MANDARIN.htm (436 words)

	Standard Mandarin - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Standard Mandarin is based on the Beijing dialect, which belongs to Mandarin, a group of Chinese dialects spoken across northern and southwestern China.
		Standard Mandarin is officially known in mainland China as Putonghua (Simplified Chinese: 普通话; Hanyu Pinyin: Pǔtōnghuà, literally "ordinary speech"), in Taiwan as Guoyu (Traditional Chinese: 國語; Tongyong Pinyin: Guóyǔ, Wade-Giles: Kuo-yü, literally "national language"), and in Malaysia and Singapore as Huayu (Traditional Chinese: 華語; Simplified Chinese: 华语;; Hanyu Pinyin: huáyǔ, literally "the Chinese language").
		Curiously the use of standard Mandarin in the 20th century has supplanted the use of pidgin English which was used as a common language in some parts of southern China in the 18th and 19th century.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /standard_mandarin.htm (3112 words)

	Mandarin (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Standard Mandarin is the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and one of the official spoken languages of Singapore.
		The presence of Mandarin in southwest China is largely due to a plague in the 12th century in Sichuan.
		However, both versions of "school" Mandarin are often quite different from the Mandarin that is spoken in accordance with regional habits, and neither is identical to even Beijing dialect.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mandarin_(linguistics) (1552 words)

	Mandarin Orange
		Mandarin is a group name for a class of oranges with thin, loose peel, which have been dubbed "kid-glove" oranges.
		Mandarin oranges of all kinds are primarily eaten out-of-hand, or the sections are utilized in fruit salads, gelatins, puddings, or on cakes.
		Mandarin essential oil and Petitgrain oil and tangerine oil, and their various tinctures and essences, are valued in perfume-manufacturing, particularly in the formulation of floral compounds and colognes.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/morton/mandarin_orange.html (2166 words)

	Home Fruit Production
		Mandarins are well-adapted to all well-drained soils in virtually all of Texas along and south of U.S. Highway 90 from Del Rio to Orange--depending on rootstock.
		Mandarins are highly productive for the size of the tree, but most are subject to strong alternate bearing, which results in significant limb breakage during the heavy crop seasons (unless some means of limb support is provided).
		Mandarin fruit tend to "plug" when pulled from the tree, i.e., a piece of the peel tears loose from the fruit and remains attached to the stem.
	aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu /citrus/mandarins.htm (3498 words)

	Learn Mandarin
		Mandarin Chinese is spoken in all of China north of the Yangtze River and in much of the rest of the country and is the native language of two-thirds of the population.
		Mandarin uses four tones--level, rising, falling, and high-rising--to distinguish words or syllables that have the same series of consonants and vowels but different meanings; both Mandarin and the standard language have few words ending with a consonant.
		Mandarin, like all other varieties of Chinese, has mostly monosyllabic words and word elements, and, because there are neither markers for inflection nor markers to indicate parts of speech, it has a fixed word order.
	www.tuvy.com /chinese/learn/learn_mandarin.htm (201 words)

	VERA LAMPERT: THE MIRACULOUS MANDARIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		When the mandarin appears in the doorway and stands still, it is not his unusual dress and outward appearance that makes him forbidding, but the inner greatness and strength that he radiates.
		When the mandarin recovers for the third time, the girl understands his pleading, and redeems him from his suffering with her embrace.
		With this she partakes of the greatness of the mandarin, and his triumph is at the same time her victory.
	www.idg.hu /expo/opera/bbcd/e1421000.htm (1969 words)

	Marvel Directory
		The Mandarin and the Unicorn traveled to America to attack their common enemy Iron Man, but in the heat of battle, the Mandarin found that the headband had somehow exchanged his consciousness with that of the Unicorn.
		The Mandarin later schemed to involve turning the Vibranium mound in the African country of Wakanda into the isotope that destroys the molecular cohesion of metals, and an attempt to destroy China's entire rice crop in an attempt to provoke war.
		Mandarin's primary purpose was not conquering Russia, but to test Iron Man and prove him worthy as a foe and to justify Mandarin's own thoughts on capitalism.
	www.marveldirectory.com /individuals/m/mandarin.htm (2628 words)

	Mandarin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mandarin dialects of spoken Chinese, or more specifically, its standardized dialect, Standard Mandarin.
		The Mandarin is a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe, one of the major archenemies of Iron Man.
		The Mandarin, a hotel in Hong Kong, now known as the Mandarin Oriental, and the founding member of the Mandarin Oriental hotel group, a part of Jardines.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mandarin (248 words)

	Mandarin Chinese
		Mandarin was originally the language spoken by Chinese officials, most of whom came from Beijing.
		Mandarin is known as pŭtōnghuà (common language) or bĕijīnghuà (Beijing language) in China, guóyŭ (national language) in Taiwan, and huáyŭ (Chinese language) in Singapore and Malaysia.
		Today Mandarin is the main language of government, the media and education in China and Taiwan, and one of the four official languages in Singapore.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/mandarin.htm (893 words)

	Mandarin Studies Programme - Department of Modern Foreign Languages
		Students who have completed the course successfully are able to understand and speak Mandarin in everyday situation and to recognize the Chinese characters with basic knowledge of components.
		Students who have completed the course successfully are able to understand and speak Mandarin in specific communicative situations be able to use new phrases and patterns within the correct context.
		Students who have completed the course successfully are able to comprehend, and communicate in Mandarin in social communicative situations; to enlarge vocabulary extensively; be able to use the phrases and patterns within the correct context; write short essays with the help of dictionary.
	academic.sun.ac.za /forlang/mandarin.htm (909 words)

	Mediterranean Fruits
		Mandarin trees and their hybrids are usually the most cold-resistant of all commercially grown citrus.
		Mandarins are called "slip-skin" oranges "zipper skin" or "easypeeler" because they have loose skins and are easy to peel and separate into segments.
		Mandarins are propagated by budding selected scions on to nucellar seedling rootstocks; a commonly used rootstock is 'Cleopatra' mandarin (Samson 1980).
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/proceedings1996/V3-416.html (7730 words)

	Mandarin - MarvelDatabase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Mandarin decided that the world should be 'restored' to the ancient days without modern technology or values and with him as the emperor of all he surveyed.
		It was later hinted that one of the Mandarin's early plots triggered the chain of events that led to Stark's initial injury.
		Mandarin began to physically attack the powerless Stark, unaware of what was on the powerless armor.
	www.marveldatabase.com /wiki/index.php/Mandarin (608 words)

	Mandarin
		Mandarin is the predominant form of the Chinese language.
		Most Chinese speak one of the Mandarin dialects, which are largely mutually intelligible.
		Mandarin is spoken in China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Russia, United States, Mongolia, Viet Nam, Brunei, South Africa, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Canada and Mauritius.
	www.flw.com /languages/mandarin.htm (68 words)

	BAY AREA / Mandarin speaks to growing class / Immigration, business spur Chinese classes
		Outside of class, the African American practices speaking Mandarin with a Chinese friend, and is also teaching her 1-year-old sister, Erica.
		Much as Japanese was the language of aspiring capitalists and cultural adventurers in the 1980s, Mandarin Chinese is attracting more students at all levels and ethnicities, in part because of mounting recognition of the importance of the language, and the growing number of Chinese American students enrolled throughout the Bay Area.
		Mandarin, the national language of China, is one of many dialects.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/01/23/BAGRFAV2ES1.DTL (1227 words)

	Greater numbers speak Mandarin
		The coexistence and different uses of Mandarin and dialects are a unique proclivity of the current Chinese language, said Tong.
		As a standard language, Mandarin is widely used as the communication medium during public activities while people use the dialect native to their area or province when communicating within their family or with other native speakers.
		Hu Hongguang, a middle school teacher who speaks Mandarin in class in Central China's Hubei Province said there are three criteria to judge the popularization of the language: how it is used in schools and whether it is used as a working language and as the mainstream tongue on social occasions.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-12/26/content_403419.htm (580 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Chinese communities shifting to Mandarin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Mandarin also is filtering into more homes through music and movies.
		And though the written Chinese language can be read by both Mandarin and Cantonese speakers, Chinese-language newspaper Sing Tao Daily has been trying to weed out Cantonese slang to appeal to more Mandarin speakers, said Tim Lau, vice president of the paper's western edition.
		Some say Cantonese and Mandarin speakers tend to stick to their own groups, which are defined by language as well as class.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2003/12/28/chinese_communities_shifting_to_mandarin (806 words)

	Mandarin on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Mandarin Chinese was the language spoken by the official class and was based on the Beijing dialect.
		Mandarin Chinese is now taught throughout the country, and it is the official national language.
		Mandarin Oriental explores options for more exotic locations; chain expands interests in Malaysia, India, Macau.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Mandarin.asp (572 words)

	Mandarin Library Automation, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Mark has worked on Mandarin M3® from inception and is now responsible for ensuring its compatibility with the SIF standards once they have been released.
		Mandarin became an active SIF Participant in the spring of 2000 when Mark joined the Infrastructure Working Group, the Compliance Working Group, and the Library Automation Working Group.
		Mandarin is a software developer and hardware provider incorporating the latest trends in technology to bring customers affordable and reliable library automation solutions.
	www.mlasolutions.com /corporate/press/p112001.htm (270 words)

	Chinese (Mandarin) Study Abroad Program in Taiwan. Learn Mandarin Chinese while teaching English in Taiwan.
		Our goal is to offer Mandarin tuition to people from all over the world at the university while offering them Teaching English vacancies at schools in the central part of Taiwan and at the same time doing our very best to provide an easy transition from your home to a new life in Taiwan.
		Learning Mandarin at one of the most reputable, government recognized private universities in Taiwan that uses the most modern and practical approach to language learning.
		Being able to speak Mandarin Chinese may open many doors and opportunities in your life that may have not existed before thus it is a skill that will be to your advantage.
	www.studyabroadinternational.com /Taiwan/Taichung/Taiwan_Taichung.html (518 words)

	Mandarin new sales
		Mandarin is one of the few schools systems that sells around the globe - an interesting cross section of countries shows up here looking at the latest sales.
		Mandarin M3¹s multilingual OPAC in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian continue to attract academic libraries from around the globe.
		Mandarin M3 is a flexible and powerful library automation system suitable for school, academic, public and special libraries.
	www.biblio-tech.com /btr901/February_2001/mandarin_2001_02.html (598 words)

	MANDARIN COMMUNITY CLUB HOME PAGE
		Stowe, a 15 year winter resident of Mandarin, lived on river property across from the school; the school was also used as a site for community meetings and worship services.
		The Mandarin Community Club was founded in 1923, and the school was presented to the club as a gift in 1936, by Edwin and Carr Mina Jones.
		The Mandarin Post Office and General Store is leased to the Mandarin Museum and Historical Society in a dollar a year arrangement.
	www.nvo.com /mandarincomclub (300 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:CHN
		Hezhouhoua is spoken in the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture and Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of southern Gansu Province, and in neighboring areas in Qinghai Province.
		The grammar is basically Altaic or Tibetan, while the vocabulary and phonology is basically Northwestern Mandarin, or a relexified variety of Tibetan.
		Mandarin varieties in the Lower Plateau in Shaanxi are not readily intelligible with Putonghua.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=CHN (667 words)

	JustNice.org ver 1.0 » Mandarin@Students
		Chin” in Mandarin) might not be able to come for his class.
		Having successfully qualified for the Intermediate Mandarin Course together with a few other students, they have decided that they want to request for a special class just for the four of them together with another student (who eventually could not join them because of her constant travelling).
		On top of working very hard, these four young ladies have also impressed me greatly with their interests in the Mandarin language and also their utmost respect for me. Despite all of them being graduates in highly specialised fields, these fine young ladies are very humble and courteous.
	justnice.org /blogger/index.php?cat=43 (3051 words)

	Mandarin Hotel Bangkok Thailand :: GREAT DEALS & BOOK NOW!
		The Mandarin Hotel's welcome begins as soon as you step into the cool, spacious Lobby where the opulence of the surroundings is matched by the ease and convenience of practical needs.
		The Mandarin Hotel provides an oasis of comfort and courteous hospitality right in the heart of bustling Bangkok.
		Mandarin Hotel has a choice of restaurants where you may relish a selection of cuisines from spicy Thai to gourmet continental or round-the clock coffee shop favorites.
	asia-discovery.com /bangkok/mandarin (204 words)

	WizKids - Marvel HeroClix
		With Incapacitate, Barrier, Willpower, Ranged Combat Expert, and Energy Shield/Deflection, Mandarin may be just the Swiss army knife you need to crack your opponent’s defenses.
		With his mix of abilities, Mandarin can act as an offensive figure, all the while supporting the rest of your force with Outwit and Barrier.
		Marvel and all related characters and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks of Marvel Characters, Inc., and are used with permission.
	www.wizkidsgames.com /heroclix/marvel/figuregallery.asp?unitid=3310 (123 words)

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