China Machinery Industry Federation issued a document to grant Xuzhou "China's construction machinery capital" title. This is the second to become the first national equipment manufacturing (construction machinery) after the new-type industrialization demonstration base of industrial, Xuzhou Construction Machinery City area received another honor.January 11 to 12, China Machinery Industry Federation of Xuzhou Construction Machinery Industry...more
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2009)A Heath BarThe Heath bar is an American candy bar made of English-style toffee. A thin hard slab with a milk chocolate coating, the toffee originally contained sugar, butter, and almonds, and was a small squarish bar weighing 1 ounce. The original Heath wrapper design had the name "Heath" printed in a distinctive...more
Cucking-stoolsA ballad, dating from about 1615, called "The Cucking of a Scold", illustrates the punishment:Then was the Scold herself,In a wheelbarrow brought,Stripped naked to the smock,As in that case she ought:Neats tongues about her neckWere hung in open show;And thus unto the cucking stoolThis famous scold did go.The cucking-stool, or Stool of Repentance, has a long history, and was used by the Saxons, who called it the scealding or scolding stool. It is mentioned in Domesday Book as being in use at Chester, being called cathedra stercoris, a name which seems to confirm the first of the derivations suggested in the footnote below. Tied to this stool the womaner head and feet bareas publicly exposed at her door or paraded through the streets amidst the jeers of the crowd.There is a reference from about 1378 to a cucking-stool as wyuen pine ("women's punishment") in Langland's Piers Plowman, B.V.29.The term cucking-stool is known to have been in use from about 1215. It means literally "defecation chair", as its name is derived from the old verb cukken which means "to defecate" (compare with the Dutch "kakken"), rather than, as popularly believed, from the word cuckold. Commodes...more
In Competition The increasingly intense flat-panel TV market in China, most internationalBrand Unsatisfactory performance. In TCL , Skyworth , Konka , Hisense , Changhong Strong domestic brands such as the price of offenses, Akai strong flat-panel TV market, participating in the fierce market competition. Cadence's universal in home appliances such...more
Properties PhysicalLanthanum is soft, malleable, silvery white metal which has hexagonal crystal structure at room temperature. At 310 C, lanthanum changes to a face-centered cubic structure, and at 865 C into a body-centered cubic structure. Lanthanum easily oxidizes (complete oxidation of a centimeter-sized sample within a year) and therefore...more
FeaturesVarious prize medals. One may see the obverse designs, suspension rings and ribbons, and are typical of medals intended to be drapped over the head and hung from the neck.The main or front surface is termed the obverse, and may contain a portrait, pictorial scene or other image along with an inscription. The reverse, or back surface of the medal, is not always used and may be left blank or may contain a secondary design. It is not uncommon to find only an artistic rendering on the obverse, while all details and other information for the medal are inscribed on the reverse. The rim is found only occasionally employed to display an inscription such as a motto, privy mark, engraver symbol, assayer marking or a series number.Medals that are intended to be hung from a ribbon also include a small suspension piece at the crest with which to loop a suspension ring through. It is through the ring that a ribbon is run or folded so the medal may hang pendent. Medals pinned to the breast use only a small cut of ribbon that is attached to a top bar where the brooch pin is affixed. Top bars may be hidden under the ribbon so they are not visible, be a plain device from which the ribbon...more
TypesRed bean paste is graded according to its consistency. In Chinese cuisine, the most common types are:Mashed: Azuki beans are boiled with sugar and mashed. The paste is smooth with bits of broken beans and bean husk. Depending on the intended...more
Wear industry by the China Association for the seventh summit of Chinese entrepreneurs wear on Mar. 22, 2010, in Shenzhen. Meeting to implement the just-concluded third session of the Eleventh National People's Congress and the spirit of the party's...more
List of systems covered by GoodToolsNamePlatformVersionROMs listedGood2600Atari 26003.147,216Good5200Atari 52002.01284Good7800Atari 78002.04183GoodChaFFairchild/Luxor/Zircon/SABA Fairchild Channel F3.1357GoodCoCoTandy Color...more
EtymologySee also Rg for the account in Norse mythology of the warrior Jarl or Rg-Jarl presented as the ancestor of the class of warrior-nobles.According to Procopius, the Heruli, after having raided the European continent for several generations,...more
China replica watches are considered to be a great accessory China replica watches are considered to be a great accessory not only by the men but also the women like to wear them in order to get the attention of the people and to be loved by...more
First China International Violin Making Competition kicked off May 5, the preparation has long been the first China International Violin Making Competition in the Central Conservatory of Music kicked off. Morning, at the Central Conservatory...more