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	Three August Ones and Five Emperors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Three August Ones and Five Emperors (Chinese: 三皇五帝; Hanyu Pinyin: sānhuáng wǔdì; Wade-Giles: san-huang wu-ti) were mythological rulers of China during the period from c.
		The Three August Ones, sometimes known as the Three Sovereigns, were said to be god-kings or demigods who used their magical powers to improve the lives of their people.
		In one sense of the word, the first historical emperor of China was Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇), who coined a new term for "emperor" (huangdi 皇帝) by combining the titles of "august one" (huang 皇) and "god-king" (di 帝).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sanhuangwudi (411 words)

	Chinese mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Huang Di (黄帝) - Huang Di, literally meaning, and commonly known as, the "Yellow Emperor", is often regarded as the first sovereign of the Chinese nation.
		Also known as Yu Huang Shang-ti, his name means “the August Personage of Jade.” He is considered to be the first god and to be in charge of all the gods and goddesses.
		Meanwhile, the myths of the benevolent rulers of the past, in the form of the Three August Ones and Five Emperors became a part of the Confucian political philosophy of Primitivism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_mythology (2063 words)

	Ming Dynasty article - Ming Dynasty History China Three August Ones the Five Emperors Dynasty Shang - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The dynasty followed the Yuan Dynasty and preceded the Qing Dynasty, and the Ming dynasty emperors were members of the Zhu family.
		After many years of fighting, the rebel group led by Zhu Yuanzhang, the future Hongwu emperor, became the most powerful of the various Han Chinese groups and Zhu declared the foundation of the Ming Dynasty in 1368, establishing his capital at Nanjing and adopting "Hongwu" as his reign title.
		Hongwu himself was generally regarded as a strong emperor who ushered in a energy of imperial power and effectiveness that lasted far beyond his reign, but the centralization of authority would prove detrimental under less competent rulers.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Ming_Dynasty (3199 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Crusades
		Although separated from the communion of Rome since the schism of Michael Cærularius (1054), the emperors of Constantinople implored the assistance of the popes; in 1073 letters were exchanged on the subject between Michael VII and Gregory VII.
		Constantinople and the empire were divided among the emperor, the Venetians, and the chief crusaders; the Marquis of Montferrat received Thessalonica and Macedonia, with the title of king; Henry of Flanders became Lord of Adramyttion; Louis of Blois was made Duke of Nicæa, and fiefs were bestowed upon six hundred knights.
		Meanwhile Emperor Frederick II, who was to be the leader of the crusade, had remained in Europe and continued to importune the pope for new postponements of his departure.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04543c.htm (11618 words)

	The Three August Ones and the Five Emperors: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Three August Ones and Five Emperors (Chinese (Chinese: Any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system) : 三皇五帝; pinyin (pinyin: pinyin (, pnyn) literally means "join (together) sounds" (a less...
		The Yellow Emperor (Yellow Emperor: the yellow emperor or huáng dì () is a legendary chinese sovereign...
		Shun (Shun: the emperor shun () (2258-2211 bc) was a lengendary leader of prehistoric china,...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/the_three_august_ones_and_the_five_emperors (738 words)

	History of China - China History - China
		Emperor Guangwu of Han China reinstated the Han dynasty with the support of land-holding and merchant families at Luoyang, east of Xian; hence the new era is termed the Eastern Han Dynasty.
		Though these three kingdoms were reunited temporarily in 280 by the (Western) Jin_Dynasty_(265-420)Jin dynasty, the contemporary non-Han Chinese (Wu Hu) ethnic groups ravaged the country in the early 4th century and provoked large-scale Han Chinese migrations to south of the Yangtze River.
		The emperor's role became more autocratic, although Zhu Yuanzhang necessarily continued to use what he called the Grand Secretaries to assist with the immense paperwork of the bureaucracy, which included memorials (petitions and recommendations to the throne), imperial edicts in reply, reports of various kinds, and tax records.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/History_of_China (5966 words)

	A Saint A Day
		Emperor Constantius was an Arian, too, and he wanted to win everybody to his side.
		The Roman emperors who persecuted Christians were trying to wipe out belief in Jesus and a religion they hated and feared.
		After three years, he was sent to start a new Cistercian monastery and to be its abbot.
	www.daughtersofstpaul.com /saintday/m8.html (10553 words)

	Five Ten Resources & Information - five ten rock climbing shoes
		In 904 he had five and ten restaurant, georgia the Emperor Zhaozong killed and put his 13-year-old son on the throne as a puppet ruler.
		Three years later, in 907, he induced the boy emperor to abdicate in his favour.
		Finally, Wuyue and Qingyuan five ten shoes gave up their land to Northern Song in 978, bringing all of South China into the control of the central government.
	www.bizhisto.com /Biz-Retail-Companies-El---Gb/Five-Ten.html (1558 words)

	Online Translations of the Tao Te Ching: Peter Merel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Three: when the five odors stimulate the nose and produce weariness and congestion in the forehead.
		The rituals and regulations of the Three August Ones and the Five Emperors may be compared to the haw, the pear, the orange, and the citron.
		The `wisdom' of the Three August Ones was such as blotted out the brightness of sun and moon above, sapped the vigor of hills and streams below, and overturned the round of the four seasons in between.
	www.westernreformtaoism.org /Zhuangzi_Translations/watson_11-15.php (15492 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR hadrian
		Hadrian was the central figure of these "five good emperors," the one most responsible for changing the character and nature of the empire.
		There is even the unsensational possibility that the childless emperor, whose relationship with his wife was at best cool, looked upon the attractive young man as the son whom he had never had.
		She presents a Hadrian as he might have been, and, although she commands a wide range of source material, the reader must always be alert to the fact that this Hadrian is not necessarily the historical Hadrian.
	www.roman-emperors.org /hadrian.htm (5017 words)

	The Complete Works Of Chuang Tzu, tr. by Burton Watson, Terebess Asia Online (TAO)
		Wipe out patterns and designs, scatter the five colors, glue up the eyes of Li Chu, and for the first time the people of the world will be able to hold on to their eyesight.
		From the Three Dynasties on down, it has been this and nothing else-shoving aside the pure and artless people and delighting in busy, bustling flatterers; abandoning the limpidity and calm of inaction and delighting in jumbled and jangling ideas.
		In ancient times the Yellow Emperor first used benevolence and righteousness to meddle with the minds of men.3 Yao and Shun followed him and worked till there was no more down on their thighs, no more hair on their shins, trying to nourish the bodies of the men of the world.
	www.terebess.hu /english/chuangtzu1.html (19406 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Epoch Times Commentaries on the Communist Party — Part 6
		If the emperor was immoral—unenlightened to the Tao, people might rise up to overthrow him, as was the case when Chengtang attacked Jie, or in King Wu’s removal of Zhou.
		Emperor Shizong [31] of the Later Zhou Dynasty (951-960 AD) tried to extinguish Buddhism merely to use the Buddha statues to mint coins, and did not touch Taoism or Confucianism.
		Never in history had any emperor eradicated from people’s minds what they considered to be the most beautiful and the most sacred, using slanderous and insulting propaganda in addition to violence, as the CCP has.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/4-12-20/25087.html (12494 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: William of Newburgh: Book Five
		On the next day, however, the foot appeared so flened, that the physicians decided that amputation was necessary; and he himself, from the love of life, requested that the operation should be performed; but there was no one, either physician or officer of the household, or even his son, who would perform it.
		Much blood was shed on either side; but at length God was propitious to our people, and the hostile army, deprived of the greater part of its strength, returned with dishonor to its own country to presume less strongly, for the future, on the vain philosophy of their leader.
		Midnight had now passed by, and no monster appeared; upon which it came to pass that three of the party, leaving him only who had sought their company on the spot, departed into the nearest house, for the purpose, as they averred, of warming themselves, for the night was cold.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/basis/williamofnewburgh-five.html (10545 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Trajan
		It was a concatenation of chance and events which brought to the first position of the principate five men, each very different from the others, who each, in his own way, brought integrity and a sense of public duty to his tasks.
		She survived Trajan, dying probably in 121, and was honored by Hadrian with a temple, which she shared with her husband, in the great forum which the latter had built.
		Hadrian saw to it that Trajan received all customary honors: the late emperor was declared a divus, his victories were commemorated in a great triumph, and his ashes were placed in the base of his column.
	www.roman-emperors.org /trajan.htm (4312 words)

	Emperor's Clothes Articles on Yugoslavia
		Emperor's Clothes editor Jared Israel was a founder and, for two years, co-Chair of Milosevic's defense committee.
		Emperor's Clothes editor Petar Makara comments that, in praising the late Yasar Arafat, Mr.
		In the spring on 1999 (a few months before Emperor's Clothes was started) it's editor-to-be, Jared Israel, had a sharp discussion with antiwar activist Tony Frye concerning Yugoslavia.
	emperors-clothes.com /yugo.htm (2594 words)

	Kamat's Potpourri: Amma's Column (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In 1975, the old temple building collapsed leading to the discovery of three sheets of a copper inscription confirming a big grant for the same school, in 1222 CE.
		They live in three different comfortably constructed houses, but cooking, sharing food and bringing up their six kids is common duty, with common kitchen and study.
		It was heartening to see all the three educated, city-bred daughters-in-laws, nicely adapting to village life.
	www.kamat.com /jyotsna/blog (2670 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page : W/WE/WES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Westende is a small city in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flemish province of West-Vlaanderen.
		The three division winners are seeded 1, 2 and 3 for the playoffs in order of their record, with all non-division winners seeded 4 through 8.
		The Western Hockey League is one of the three hockey Major Junior "A" Tier I leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League.
	www.wikien.info /browse.php?title=W/WE/WES (10686 words)

	Indian, Chinese, & Japanese Emperors
		The convention also makes it possible that Emperors who do not survive beyond their initial calendar year may not even be counted, which is the case, creating some confusion, with a couple of the Mongols.
		The last Emperor in a Dynasty (or before another kind of hiatus) gets a memorial rather than a temple name, since, at the end, he is not an ancestor.
		The Sixteen Dynasties are of the "Five Barbarians," i.e.
	www.friesian.com /sangoku.htm (12208 words)

	August 2003
		It also changes in-game ranks to EH ones, from CT to GA, concourse room names to Emperor's Hammer CS offices (for example: the Tech Room now is the Science Office) and the rebel pilot hand cursor to an imperial one.
		Only three weeks remain, and we know that all of you are busy gearing up your latest and greatest decks.
		Alot of the Trainee's who have exceeded their Three Month limitation period (they had three months to complete their training) have been removed, creating a more accurate roster count.
	www.emperorshammer.org /news/august_2003.htm (15160 words)

	Pao Chui - China-related Topics PA-PD - China-Related Topics
		l=Three Emperor Cannon Punch) is a Chinese martial art attributed to the The Three August Ones and the Five EmperorsThree August Ones: Fuxi, Shennong, and Gonggong.
		The spread of Pao Chui was due in part to its early association with Shaolin.
		At a festival thrown by the Emperor Gaozu of Tang ChinaEmperor Gaozu, the Shaolin monk Tanzong gave a demonstration of Pao Chui.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Pao_Chui (209 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: Martin Luther (1483-1546): Address To The Nobility of the German Nation, 1520
		He was proscribed by the Emperor Charles V and taken into the protection of prison in the Wartburg by the friendly Elector of Saxony, where he translated the New Testament.
		Therefore the Emperor should grant him no such fief, nor any longer allow him those he has, but direct him instead to his Bibles and Prayer-books, so that he may leave the government of countries and peoples to the temporal power, especially of those that no one has given him.
		The pious Emperor Sigismond had no good fortune after the Council of Constance, in which he allowed the knaves to violate the safe-conduct that he had promised to John Huss and Jerome; from this has followed all the miserable strife between Bohemia and ourselves.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/luther-nobility.html (18089 words)

	Amazon.com: The Elements of Taoism ("Elements of ... " Series): Books: Martin Palmer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Yet the goal of Taoist sage is essentially shamanistic- to obtain union and harmony with the highest, deepest, hidden currents of the universe.
		When this was achieved, one was in a state of wu-wei, where one's own will and the will of heaven were one and indistinguishable.
		So are the foundation myths of the Three August Ones and the Five August Emperors.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1862040400?v=glance (916 words)

	Chen (surname) - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Initial surname Chen was from Gui (Chinese:媯, pinyin: Gūi), which was an ancient Chinese surname of descendants of Emperor Shun, who was one of the Three August Ones and the Five Emperors.
		When King Wu of Zhou established Zhou Dynasty, he gave the Land of Chen to the descendants to established their own state.
		To show his respect for Emperor Shun, the new state, which was also named by Chen, was one of the Three Guest States of Zhou (Chinese:三恪, pinyin: Sān Kè), which meant this nation was not the subordinate, but the guest of Zhou.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Chen_(surname) (472 words)

	Zhou Dynasty - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		However Zhou resistance did not last long in the face of the Qin
		advance and so King Nan is widely considered to have been the last emperor of the Zhou dynasty.
		This page was last modified 01:58, 14 Jun 2005.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Zhou_Dynasty_(1122_BC_-_256_BC) (992 words)

	Yu the Great (大禹; dà yǔ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Yu (often called Da Yu "Yu the Great") was a legendary Emperor of the Xia Dynasty, one of The Three August Ones and the Five Emperors.
		According to historical texts, Yu died at Mount Kuaiji (south of present day Shaoxing) whilst on a hunting tour on the southern frontier of his empire, and was buried there.
		A number of emperors in imperial times have travelled there to perform ceremonies in his honour, notably Qin Shi Huangdi.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/437486 (200 words)

	Solana and Kouchner push Kosovo "Independence"
		When Klecka was recaptured by Yugoslav forces in August they made some terrible discoveries.
		The six Serbs, five of them teenagers aged 15 to 17, were killed when two masked gunmen sprayed automatic gunfire inside the Panda cafe in Pec, according to initial investigations.
		``Not to have an army would be a big mistake,'' said Hajredinaj, one of five KLA commanders invited to visit Washington in another diplomatic move to persuade rebels to adopt the deal for Kosovo self-rule.
	emperors-clothes.com /analysis/lovein.htm (4636 words)

	The Christian Paradox (Harpers.org)
		Despite the Sixth Commandment, we are, of course, the most violent rich nation on earth, with a murder rate four or five times that of our European peers.
		Plenty of vital congregations are doing great good works—they’re the ones that have nurtured me—but they aren’t where the challenge will arise; they’ve grown shy about talking about Jesus, more comfortable with the language of sociology and politics.
		This is The Christian Paradox, a feature, originally from August 2005, published Thursday, September 15, 2005.
	harpers.org /ExcerptTheChristianParadox.html (3911 words)

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