Word: easternism
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...Panlong saga isn't an isolated case. In the village of Liujiaying, in eastern Shandong province, local officials told residents in 2003 that they would lose their fruit and vegetable fields. After finding out how little compensation the village committee was offering, Liujiaying villagers refused to clear their land. Within a few months, the fields were bulldozed in the middle of the night, destroying decades-old grapevines and fruit trees. Later, rows of greenhouses were torn down. Peasants who complained say they were awakened at night by bricks crashing through their windows, and that several villagers were beaten...
...Owsley: "[Kennewick Man] is not North American looking, and he's not tied in to Siberian or Northeast Asian populations. He looks more Polynesian or more like the Ainu [an ethnic group that is now found only in northern Japan but in prehistoric times lived throughout coastal areas of eastern Asia] or southern Asians...
...last ice age, when sea level was hundreds of feet lower than it is today. From there, the earliest immigrants would have made their way south through an ice-free corridor that geologists know cut through what are now the Yukon and Mackenzie river valleys, then along the eastern flank of the Canadian Rockies to the continental U.S. and on to Latin America...
...this album. But at the same time neither is it content to leave the beats unadorned and uninteresting. Instead, we get the middle ground: lots and lots of bongos, Latin influences on many of the songs, a song in Tagalog (“Bebot”), a Middle-Eastern sound on occasion, the fantastic marriage of “Miserlou” and handclaps, and even a piano outro on “My Humps” that gets points for unexpectedness...
...always carries himself with a quiet confidence and determination—not to mention 260 lbs. of devastating power—all of which has made him one of the best heavyweight wrestlers in the country.Ranked seventh in the nation, Ogunwole has a 24-5 record going into the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Championships this weekend, including a perfect 15-0 in dual meets.But his coaches and teammates are not the only ones who’ve helped him pull off these impressive numbers. Among the people not on the team that have helped Bode’s wrestling...