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north-eastern section of the Inner Court is taken up by the Palace of Tranquil Longevity (寧壽宮) (O), a complex built by the Qianlong Emperor in anticipation of...

Chinese worship Genghis as the ancestral god of the Yuan dynasty. The main axis of the Taoist Temple of Fortune and Longevity (Chinese: 福壽觀 Fúshòuguān) has...

hundreds of millions of people; 56.2% of the total population or 754 million people practised Chinese ancestral religion, but only 16% claiming to "believe...

paper-cuts and couplets include good fortune or happiness, wealth, and longevity. Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red...

disease. Often simply referred to as "The Plague", the Black Death had both immediate and long-term effects on human population across the world as one of the...

and potatoes. Crops were usually domesticated in a single location and ancestral wild species are still found.[1] Early Neolithic farming was limited to...

character completely different to other parts of the world. Finally, the longevity of the site, and its articulation with the neighbouring site of Nausharo...

masculinity and patriotism. According to historian Anna Menge: The intensity, longevity, striking political and social breadth, and political deployment of the...

Smith JS, Hdeib M, et al. (2009). "Significant correlation of species longevity with DNA double strand break recognition but not with telomere length"...

hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living in a community, or according to an ancestrally derived lifestyle, in which most or all food is obtained by foraging...

practised for millennia. Additionally Parsis have high prevalence of longevity as a genetic feature. Parsis have however been shown to have high rates...

2000). "A Theory of Human Life History Evolution: Diet, Intelligence, and Longevity" (PDF). Evolutionary Anthropology. 9 (4): 156–185. doi:10...

shared by many dinosaurs, both avian and non-avian. While dinosaurs were ancestrally bipedal, many extinct groups included quadrupedal species, and some were...

increase the amount of land available for agriculture. Because of their longevity and usefulness, trees have always been revered, with sacred groves in...

have been ancestral to Somalis, established a powerful kingdom that ruled large parts of modern Somalia. They were reputed for their longevity and wealth...

that ruled large parts of modern Somalia. They were reputed for their longevity and wealth, and were said to be the "tallest and handsomest of all men"...

spirituality are associated with better health outcomes, including greater longevity, coping skills, and health-related quality of life (even during terminal...

Jane Mt. Pleasant, however, argues that these models of Cahokia's soil longevity are flawed, because it is based on modern understandings of crop yields...

organisation. Squat Milada was occupied in 1997 and evicted in 2009. Its longevity was in part due to the building not existing in the cadastre. Klinika...

central power grew unusually weak. Some developments were good for the longevity of the empire, since many magnates took the opportunity to develop stronger...