The Warring States Period (traditional Chinese: 戰國時代, simplified Chinese: 战国时代 pinyin Zhànguó Shídài) takes place from sometime in the 5th century BC to the unification of China by Qin in 221 BC. It is nominally considered to be the second part of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, following the Spring and Autumn Period. Like the Spring and Autumn Period, the king of Zhou acted merely as a figurehead. The name Warring States Period was named after Record of the Warring States compiled in early Han Dynasty. The ...

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• Warring States Period - Partition of Jin
• Warring States Period - Change of Government in Qi
• Warring States Period - Early strife in the Three Jins Qi and Qin
• Warring States Period - Shang Yang's reforms in Qin
• Warring States Period - Ascension of the Kingdoms
• Warring States Period - Chu expansion and defeats
• Warring States Period - The Domination of Qin and the resulting Grand Strategies
• Warring States Period - Zhao's military reforms
• Warring States Period - Qin's conquest of China
• Warring States Period - Films set in the Warring States Period

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Ascension Christian doctrine of the physical ascension of the resurrected body of Jesus Christ to heaven to be with his Father, celebrated 40 days after Easter; the prophet Elijah and the Virgin Mary are also asserted by dogma of the Roman Catholic Church to have ascended bodily to heaven.

The ascension is an allegory of the rebirth, resurrection, and union of the personality or ego with the inner god or Father in Heaven (BCW 5:389).

(See also: Ascension, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

Ascension Stargate - The introduction of Ascension. The first appearance of what was to later become a strong recurring theme in Stargate SG-1, occurred when the show's protagonists, the team SG-1, arrive on the legendary planet Kheb, where they find the Harcesis, offspring of the Goa'uld System Lord Apophis and Daniel's kidnapped betrothed Sha're, in the episode "Maternal Instinct". There they find a Buddhist temple in the woods where a monk has residence. This suggests that Buddhism was founded upon the stu ...

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Ascension Stargate, Ascension Stargate - Plot, Ascension Stargate - The introduction of Ascension, Ascension Stargate - Ascension as a central theme, Ascension Stargate - Powers of the Ascended

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The Portuguese explorer Joao da Nova Castelia was apparently the first to discover the island (in 1501), but did not report it. So when in 1503 Alphonse d'Albuquerque (Afonso de Albuquerque, a portuguese navigator) saw the island on Ascension Day, he named it for the day of its sighting. Dry and barren, it had little appeal for passing ships, and remained uninhabited until 1815, when the British garrisoned it as a precaution after imprisoning Napoleon I of France on St Helena to the southeast. The Royal Navy officially designated the island ...

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Ascension Island, Ascension Island - Physical, Ascension Island - History, Ascension Island - Population, Ascension Island - Military, Ascension Island - Communications, Ascension Island - Wildlife, Ascension Island - Postal history

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The main island has an area of approximately 35 square miles. A volcanic peak rising from just west of the mid-Atlantic Ridge, much of the island is a wasteland of lava flows and cinder cones; no less than 44 distinct craters have been identified. While it was barren with very few plants as recently as 1843, Ascension Island's Green Mountain is now one of the few large-scale artificial forests, and is gradually growing wit ...

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Ascension Island, Ascension Island - Physical, Ascension Island - History, Ascension Island - Population, Ascension Island - Military, Ascension Island - Communications, Ascension Island - Wildlife, Ascension Island - Postal history

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There are five settlements, the capital being Georgetown: Georgetown (pop. 560) Cat Hill (Main Base, the U.S. base, pop. 150) The Residency Traveller's Hill (Wideawake, the Royal Air Force base, pop. 200) Two Boats Village Additionally, there are some cottages on Green Mountain. It is notoriously difficult to gain entry to Ascension Island as one needs written permission from the administrator. Additionally, it is near-impossible to take up permanent residence there as one n ...

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Ascension Island, Ascension Island - Physical, Ascension Island - History, Ascension Island - Population, Ascension Island - Military, Ascension Island - Communications, Ascension Island - Wildlife, Ascension Island - Postal history

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Green turtles are perhaps the most notable of the wildlife, coming ashore to lay their eggs on the beaches from January to May. The sooty tern or "wideawake" nests in great numbers, along with boobies, petrels, noddies, Ascension frigate birds, and boatswain birds. On land are found canaries, francolins, mynahs, sparrows, and waxbills. A variety of mammals have been introduced, while reptiles consist of two species of lizards. Offshore, there is a variety of open-ocean fish, including sharks, wahoo, t ...

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Ascension Island, Ascension Island - Physical, Ascension Island - History, Ascension Island - Population, Ascension Island - Military, Ascension Island - Communications, Ascension Island - Wildlife, Ascension Island - Postal history

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The island is home to Wideawake Field, built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers during World War II, as a refueling and staging station for aircraft flying between the Americas and Africa. Patrol aircraft based at Wideawake played an important role in anti-submarine warfare in the South Atlantic. A large garbage dump, consisting mostly of rusting metal, remains from the World War II activity. Wideawake is also used by the RAF as a bridge to the Falkland Islands. The United States also maintains a GPS monitor station and missile tracking sites on the island. The island served as a refueling station for the ...

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Ascension Island, Ascension Island - Physical, Ascension Island - History, Ascension Island - Population, Ascension Island - Military, Ascension Island - Communications, Ascension Island - Wildlife, Ascension Island - Postal history

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The island has an Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of .ac. However very few, if any sites are hosted on the island itself as the only permenant electronic communcation is done via satellite. Sites hosted on such a connection would be costly to run and laggy as ping times would exceed one second. Since the submarine-cable has been decommissioned all phone and internet communication is done via satellite. Voice quality on these lines is very poor and there is usually a paus ...

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Ascension Island, Ascension Island - Physical, Ascension Island - History, Ascension Island - Population, Ascension Island - Military, Ascension Island - Communications, Ascension Island - Wildlife, Ascension Island - Postal history

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Ascension of Christ - N

This is reinterpreted in a mystical way to refer to the rise of the "Christ-consciousness" in man-kind. It describes the awareness that man is divine.

(See also: Ascension of Christ, New Age, Body mind and Soul)

right ascension

Measurement along the equator in astrology

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RA is comparable to longitude, measured from a zero point known as the vernal equinox point. RA is measured in hours, minutes, and seconds. Being closely tied with sidereal time, it is both a unit of time and of angle. An hour of right ascension is equal to 15 degrees of arc, a minute of right ascension equal to 15 minutes of arc, and a second of right ascension equal to 15 seconds of arc. An alternative measure, used in navigation, is Sidereal Hour Angle. The main difference being that RA is m ...

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Right ascension, Right ascension - Explanation, Right ascension - Celestial longitude for other planets

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RA is comparable to longitude, measured from a zero point known as the vernal equinox point. Also known as the First Point of Aries; more commonly the first day of Spring. This however changes as a result of the Earth's rotation axis precessing once every ~26,000 years. RA is measured in hours, minutes, and seconds. Being closely tied with sidereal time, it is both a unit of time and of angle. An hour of right ascension is equal to 15 degrees of arc, a minute of right ascension equal to 15 minutes of arc, and a second ...

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Right ascension, Right ascension - Explanation, Right ascension - Celestial longitude for other planets

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The parish has a total area of 784 km2 (303 mi2). 755 km2 (292 mi2) of it is land and 29 km2 (11 mi2) of it is water. The total area is 3.75% water. Ascension Parish Louisiana - Adjacent parishes. East Baton Rouge Parish (north) Livingston Parish (northeast) St. John the Baptist Parish (east) St. James Parish (southeast) Assumption Pa ...

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As of the census2 of 2000, there are 76,627 people, 26,691 households, and 20,792 families residing in the parish. The population density is 101/km2 (263/mi2). There are 29,172 housing units at an average density of 39/km2 (100/mi2). The racial makeup of the parish is 77.39% White, 20.28% Black or African American, 0.27% Native American, 0.34% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.99% from other races, and 0.70% from two or more races. ...

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Ascension Parish Louisiana, Ascension Parish Louisiana - Geography, Ascension Parish Louisiana - Adjacent parishes, Ascension Parish Louisiana - Demographics, Ascension Parish Louisiana - Cities and towns, Ascension Parish Louisiana - External link

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RIGHT ASCENSION, RA: an astrology term referring to the distance in the sky measured along a parallel to the Earth's Equator, like longitude lines but starting at the Zodiac beginning. As the Earth rotates on its axis each day, this celestial 'equator' & ecliptic is carried along with the Earth's Equator from 0 degree geographical longitude to 180 degree west & then back around to 0 degree again.

(See also: RIGHT ASCENSION, RA, Witchcraft, Wicca, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

Keys to Ascension 2 - Disc 1. "I've Seen All Good People" - 7:15 "Your Move" (Jon Anderson) "All Good People" (Chris Squire) "Going for the One" (Jon Anderson) - 4:59 "Time and a Word" (Jon Anderson/David Foster) - 6:23 "Close to the Edge" (Jon Anderson/Steve Howe) - 19:41 "The Solid Time of Change" "Total Mass Retain" "I Get Up I Get Down" "Seasons of Man" "Turn of the Century" (Jon Anderson/St ...

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Keys to Ascension 2, Keys to Ascension 2 - Track listing, Keys to Ascension 2 - Disc 1, Keys to Ascension 2 - Disc 2, Keys to Ascension 2 - Personnel, Keys to Ascension 2 - Sources

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Following the Catholicization of the Visigothic kings, the Catholic bishops increased in power, until, at the synod held at Toledo in 633, they gained the nobles' right to select a king from among the royal family. When King Ergica died in 701 the throne passed to his son, Wittiza, who had been co-ruler from 693. Upon the deposing or death of King Wittiza in 709, the nobles selected Roderic, the duke of Baetica, who in turn defeated the heir ...

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Roderic, Roderic - Ascension and rule, Roderic - Arab invasion, Roderic - Popular culture, Roderic - Notes

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Believers in ascension make a distinction between an enlightened individual and an ascended master. When an individual becomes enlightened—that is, consciously lives on the Christ/Buddha level of awareness—they need experience no further lifetimes to realize their oneness with the universe. The enlightened person can then use their innate awareness to learn more about the universe, or choose to become a master and help others achieve this state. Not every enlightened person becomes a master. Once enl ...

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Believers propose that humans are composed of a physical body and a soul, both of which are composed of energy. As physics has revealed to us, everything is composed of energy. Even if we cannot physically "see" something (radio waves, X rays, etc.), that energy exists at various frequencies and with the proper medium we can experience at least the effect of these energies. In the theory of ascension, it is assumed that humans are composed of seven energetic bodies—physical, etheric, astral, causal, mental, celestial, and Christ bodies. Th ...

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Anna was the daughter of Ivan V of Russia, as well as the niece of Peter the Great. The latter married her to Frederick William, Duke of Courland in November 1710, but on the return trip from Saint Petersburg in January 1711 her husband died from surfeit. Anna continued ruling as Duchess of Courland (now western Latvia) from 1711 to 1730, with the Russian resident, Peter Bestuzhev, as her adviser. She never remarried after the death of her husband, but was reputed by her enemies to ...

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Anna of Russia, Anna of Russia - Ascension to the throne, Anna of Russia - Policies of her reign, Anna of Russia - Death and Succession

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