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	History of White Crane Silat
		White Crane Silat traces its origins to the monasteries and convents of China around 600 A.D. At this time the first patriarch of the legendary Shaolin temple, Bodhidharma (a.k.a.
		It is said that the current White Crane Silat style taught by PGB represents Suhu's synthesis of four martial arts styles with that of his original clan style of kun tao.
		Suhu chose the White Crane as the symbol of the school because the crane is a social animal which represents balance and grace, and only fights in self defense.
	homepage.mac.com /silatnyc/web_pages/history_of_white_crane.html (846 words)

	Helen Shen White Crane Kungfu
		White Crane Kungfu is a traditional Chinese martial art, which emulates the characteristic and movements of white cranes.
		White cranes are common in those days in Fujian province where the legend began.
		White Cranes live by the fringe of rice fields, the edge of waters, or in swamplands.
	www.taomartialarts.com /crn/crn_main.html (821 words)

	Amazon.com: The Essence of Shaolin White Crane-Martial Power and Qigong: Books: Jwing-Ming Yang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		There are a number of crane and white crane styles, such as southern white crane, northern fl crane, eastern Tibetan white crane, and at least four styles of southern white crane are known.
		The feeding crane is a form rather than a style, and the "vibrating crane" is a fa-jing or explosive chi energy technique.
		White Crane kung is considered to be an especially refined style of kung fu.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1886969353?v=glance (1873 words)

	WHITE CRANE KUNG FU STYLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		White Crane Kung Fu is an ancient martial art that was developed in Tibet 450 years ago by Buddhist monks.
		He had witnessed a combat between an ape and a white crane, expecting the fragile crane to be killed by the ape.
		White Crane Kung Fu spread to China, then Hong Kong and now is taught in many parts of the world.
	www.angelfire.com /bc/whitecrane/style.html (349 words)

	Fukien Shaolin White Crane Kung Fu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is the particularities of her situation which led to the unique nature of White Crane.
		The basic White Crane body movements, called Djuan Sen, reveals a tendency to turn and sidestep and strike an opponent while his own momentum is still carrying him forward.
		White Crane kung fu from the South of China is continuing to thrive, thanks to the enlightened thinking of one of its foremost proponents.
	www.aei.ca /~straycat/kungfu/w-crane.html (2653 words)

	Okinawan White Crane - Renshi Graham Moughton
		The founder of white Crane was a woman the ‘Fang Chi-Niang’, who was inspired by the tenacious fighting spirit of crane, which seemed to block with its wings and hit with its beak, Impressed with this fragile creature, she decides to mimic the crane until she mastered its movements.
		Okinawan White Crane is said to have been passed down through the lineage of Bushi Matsumura Okinawan martial arts master and Royal bodyguard, and Gokenki a Chinese tea merchant who taught the Crane system on Okinawa at the turn of the 19th century.
		Okinawan White Crane is taught slowly and solidly, with heavy emphasis on stance and footwork.
	www.btinternet.com /~jonathan.masters/crane.htm (1442 words)

	The Cranes
		The total population of White-naped Cranes is estimated at 4,900-5,300.
		The wintering populations of White-naped and Hooded Cranes at Izumi in Japan are highly concentrated, increasing the risk of a disease outbreak.
		Crane and wetland education programs are prominently featured at many of the protected areas within the species’ range, especially at Zhalong Nature Reserve near Qiqihar, Xianghai Nature Reserve in Jilin, and Muraviovka Nature Park in Russia.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/distr/birds/cranes/grusvipi.htm (5231 words)

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		The power of the White Crane system is driven from a full use of the waist that gathers force from the legs and manifests it through the hand.
		White Crane is not a hard or a soft style, rather it combines soft movement and body inclined, with soft like cotton hands which are powerful and destructive when they meet with the target.
		White Crane is a special way and the purpose of the school is to give the students the ability to know it — be it for fighting, for the art of it, or for their health.
	www.pakhokpai.co.il (2125 words)

	White Crane - Crane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Whiting Foundry Equipment Company is specialized in the the design and manufacture of Overhead Crane...
		White Crane The White crane has got to be one of the most stoic and beautiful fighting styles.
		White Crane Okinawan White Crane Okinawan White Crane is a rare system of self-defense which combines foot techniques, hand techniques and seizing/controlling.
	whitecrane.iniacrane.com (1249 words)

	Thousand Cranes Peace Network - Crane Lore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		All cranes are large birds which inhabit wetlands, equipped with long legs for wading and a long neck and long sharp-pointed bill for feeding on tubers and small animals.
		Cranes can be long-lived - most writers cite an age of 40 to 60 years in captivity but one notes a captive Siberian crane living for 83 years and fathering chicks at age 78.
		Crane dances are spectacular - they bow and bob, throw their heads back and trumpet, throw grass, stones and feathers into the air, leap up and parachute back down on their broad wings.
	rosella.apana.org.au /~mlb/cranes/lore.htm (2790 words)

	White Crane Rock Beam applies for world cultural heritage
		White Crane Rock Beam of Stone Fish, located in the Yangtze River in the city of Fuling, is now preparing for applying for world cultural heritage.
		White Crane Rock Beam of Stone Fish belongs to the southwest Chongqing Municipality.
		The 1600-meter long White Crane Rock Beam is normally submerged in the water of Fuling Dock, only during lowest level does it show up a little bit.
	en.ce.cn /Life/arts&heritage/200504/17/t20050417_3628282.shtml (168 words)

	TAIJIQUAN White-Crane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Although there are several versions as to how Fujian White Crane originated, they all acknowledge the founder as being a woman by the name of Fang Chee-Niang.
		It is most widely believed that one day while washing her clothes at the rivers edge a white crane became overly inquisitive.
		With over 30 years Martial Arts training, half of which professionally teaching White Crane and T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Wee Kee-Jin is now to follow the expressed request of his teacher to broaden the access to the Art of Fujian White Crane into Australasia and Europe.
	www.taijiquan.co.nz /whitecrane.htm (589 words)

	Animal Fact Sheets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In their wintering areas, white-naped cranes are primarily vegetarians, feeding on sedge tubers, seeds of various grasses and grain from cultivated fields.
		White-naped cranes are renowned for their spectacular and elaborate courtship dances that strengthen bonds between mated pairs.
		The white-naped crane is listed at endangered.* The destruction of natural habitat on breeding grounds, in wintering areas and along migration routes is having a devastating effect on crane and other migratory bird populations.
	www.zoo.org /educate/fact_sheets/white_crane/wcrane.htm (1006 words)

	White Crane Kung Fu :: dho.ca
		More commonly, this was the Fukienese White Crane art, very different from the White Crane seen used by David Carradine in the TV series "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues".
		Like a real crane being attacked, the practitioner will attempt to use his arms as the "blocking wings", along with evasive footwork and attempt to strike with various hand techniques when he sees an opening.
		The style that I studied was of the Flying Crane Family, made famous by the Grandmaster Li Kiang Ke, the founder of Wu Ing Tong in Sibu, Malaysia.
	www.dho.ca /blog/100 (418 words)

	Whooping Crane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The estimate of world population of whooping crane is 320 with 25 in captivity and two other wild populations.
		The three wild populations of whooping crane are found at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas, Gray’s Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Idaho and Kissimmee Prairie in Flordia.
		The main cause of death of the whooping crane is collision with power lines during migration.
	bellnetweb.brc.tamus.edu /whooping.htm (536 words)

	Fujian White Crane - Hard Style (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		For the sake of simplicity it is known as Fujian White Crane Kung Fu in the West.
		The White Crane style that is taught by Dennis Ngo originated in the Yong Chun district of the province.
		Fujian White Crane Kung Fu (international) is now accepted as original and from the same lineage by Yongchun White Crane Wushu (China).
	www.kungfu-taichi.com /styles/hard.html (577 words)

	Academie Shaolin White Crane Kung Fu : Shaolin White Crane Kung Fu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		White Crane combines defense and attack and uses both soft and hard power.
		A unique feature of the White Crane system is the manner in which the many empty-hand and weapon forms are designed.
		It is noteworthy that in Grand-Master Lee's account, the crane was interpreted as being the personification of a god descended from the heavens and determined to teach Fang Chi-Niang martial arts.
	www.shaolinwhitecranekungfu.com /styles/white.asp (3511 words)

	White Crane Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		White Crane has always operated with the core belief that there is a certain, definable and observable role that gay people (and for the purposes of this discussion, I will use the single term “gay” to be inclusive of the GLBT community) play in the evolution of life on Earth.
		White Crane Institute promotes the study of the role of gay men, queer sexualities and gender variation and orientation in the evolution, psychology, sociology, and practice of spirituality, ritual, and religion.
		White Crane Institute is dedicated to researching, exploring and documenting the variety of manifestations of the spiritual search among contemporary GLBT men and women.
	www.whitecranejournal.com /institute.asp (1620 words)

	Coccidia of the World
		Carpenter, J.W., Spraker, T.R., and Novilla, M.N. Disseminated visceral coccidiosis in whooping cranes.
		Carpenter, J.W., Spraker, T.R., Gardiner, C.H., and Novilla, M.N. Disseminated granulomas caused by an unidentified protozoan in sandhill cranes.
		Novilla, M.N., Carpenter, J.W., Jeffers, T.K., and White, S.L. Pulmonary lesions in disseminated visceral coccidiosis of sandhill and whooping cranes.
	biology.unm.edu /biology/coccidia/gruif.html (1064 words)

	Portfolio of Photographs Taken From Jungle Crane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		STRI's jungle crane is 100 feet high, with a 115-foot boom, providing safe photographic access to a column of jungle 230 feet in diameter, and 100 feet from the ground to canopy top.
		Animals such as the toucan, green iguana, sloth, anteater, and mono titi (very small monkeys that live high in the canopy), were not frightened off by the crane or movements as it positioned me for the best photographs.
		The crane offers an ideal platform from which to monitor their movements at tree-top level instead of looking up at them with a bright sky background.
	photo2.si.edu /crane/craneport.html (413 words)

	Baihequan (White Crane Kung Fu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		White Crane ("Baihequan") is a traditional Chinese martial art inspired by the movements of a crane.
		One of Huang's teachers is thought to have been influencial in the development of the Okinawan martial arts.
		Some additional images of Yek Sing Ong doing White Crane are available for those who are interested.
	rembrandt.gen.nz /white_crane (137 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: WHOOPING CRANE
		The whooping crane (Grus americana) is a member of the Gruidae (crane family), one of a dozen in the bird order Gruiformes.
		With a wingspan of 7½ feet, the long-legged and long-necked crane is the largest bird in North American and one of the most striking birds in Texas.
		The latter flock was halved by a tropical storm in 1940.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/WW/tbw1.html (613 words)

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		Fu Jian Crane is undoubtably a stong influence in many systems - this is clear from principles, or movement or power emphasis, but when you see Haku it just don't look like anything to do with Fu Jian crane.
		Crane is not formalisation, but exploration and change from a solid base.
		For me the characterisation of crane is not just the analysis of the system movements but more the process by which it is taught and practiced.
	www.fujianbaihe.com /fujianbaihe/faq.html (5127 words)

	Chief White Crane Recreation Area near Yankton, SD
		Chief White Crane is in close proximity to the Missouri River and Gavins Point Dam.
		The park was named after Chief White Crane who met with Lewis and Clark in this area in 1804.
		Chief White Crane is one of the South Dakota state parks that offers the opportunity for visitors to see the majestic bald eagle.
	www.sdgfp.info /parks/regions/lewisclark/chiefwhitecrane.htm (367 words)

	The White Crane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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		RU:Society:More in detail 16:17 2002-07-23 Asiatic white crane offspring to fly south escorted by hang-glider Fledglings of the Asiatic white crane, a species entered in the Rare species book, that...
	whitecrane.iniacrane.com /thewhitecrane (797 words)

	ABC News: Aviary to Send Rare Bird Eggs to Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A pair of the endangered red-crown cranes walk around their pen at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, Monday, May 16, 2005.
		Numbering between 1,700 and 2,000 in the wild, the red-crowned crane is the third most endangered bird in the world, according to the aviary and the International Crane Foundation.
		The eggs 12 from the endangered red-crown crane and three from the threatened white-naped crane are being sent by the National Aviary in Pittsburgh as part of a reintroduction program.
	abcnews.go.com /Technology/wireStory?id=764089 (462 words)

	The Deadly Fighting Principles of White Crane Kung Fu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The style was primarily created by Or Da Tor in an attempt to devise a simple and effective fighting system for humans, similar to the winning techniques he saw used on the mountain by the crane.
		White crane kung fu was spread through Wong Len Yum's lineage of disciples: Wong Moon Wing, to NgSiu Jung, to Hong Kong and Ng Bing Jong, to the United States (Los Angeles)through Nai Yuk Ton, and from there to San Francisco Kingston Ku.
		Ng Bng Jong, head of the system, was the individual responsible for first passing on the knowledge of white crane to Hong Kong, the White Crane Association being one of the largest martial arts organizations in existence there today.
	www.shaolinkungfu.org /omas/wckf-2.html (282 words)

	white crane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		White Crane Wellness Center is an independent, non-profit organization founded by a multi-ethnic...
		One day he was observing a beautiful white crane, when out of the forest came a gorilla.
		The White-naped Crane is often found in the company of other crane species that also occur within their range, including Red-crowned, Hooded, Demoiselle, and Eurasian Cranes.
	whitecrane.fluecrane.com (991 words)

	White Crane Forge creates custom hand forged Japanese knives
		White Crane Forge creates custom hand forged Japanese knives
		Our mission at White Crane Forge is to create hand forged, one of a kind blades.
		We do our best to create the highest possible quality work and standards we are capable of providing to you, our valued customers.
	www.utahisp.com /cbenson (65 words)

	Crane
		The arts of Crane Kung Fu have a varied and rich history.
		At least two distinct styles of Crane Boxing originated in Fujian province of mainland China, and a third is said to have come from Tibet.
		White Crane Kung Fu Schoof - Hod-Hasharon, Israel
	www.canadiancontent.net /dir/Top/Sports/Martial_Arts/Kung_Fu/Crane (323 words)

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