Word: zu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drunkenly in Hamburg, Germany, in 1962. What Harrison called one of the band's "crummiest" performances was caught on tape when the not-yet Fab Four went to the Star Club to play their last gig after signing with EMI. Unfortunately, the Liverpudlian lads had a little too much zu trinken beforehand. Lingasong Music, which wanted to release the tapes, claimed John Lennon had agreed to the recording. Harrison disputed this: "One drunk person recording another bunch of drunks does not constitute a business deal...
...earthquakes, and the celestial globe that showed the movement of the sun, moon and other stars. Mathematicians in the pre-Qin days put forward the proposition known as the Pythagorean theorem in the West today. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the 4th century A.D., China's mathematician Zu Chongzhi calculated the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter to be 3.1415926. China's silk-weaving, porcelain-making, metallurgy and ship-building reached the world's best level in ancient times. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zaiyu initiated the 12-tone temperament, which later became...
...officials insist the two diplomats were traveling with the permission of the Chinese government. So why the expulsion? Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz reports that the Chinese may simply be retaliating for the Clinton Administration's decision to grant a transit visa to Taiwanese Vice President Li Yuan-zu: "Such moves pique China, because in Beijing's view it is tantamount to giving official recognition to Taiwan, which Beijing considers a mere renegade province. Indeed, China protested Washington's move, but analysts here note that Beijing's reaction was in fact quite mild compared to its vehement outrage over...
...Saturday Taiwan announced that its Vice President, Li Yuan-zu, has been granted a U.S. transit visa allowing him to stop overnight in Los Angeles as he travels to and from a Jan. 14 presidential inauguration in Guatemala. China, which claims Taiwan as a province, had declared that it "resolutely opposed" such a move. Last June Beijing withdrew its ambassador from Washington after the U.S. let Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui attend a Cornell University reunion...
...every commander's nightmare. I said, 'Follow me,' and found myself alone." --Israeli militant Moshe Feiglin, leader of the group Zu Artzenu (This Is Our Land), after attempting to lead a group of West Bank settlers in a protest to block an Israeli highway. The protest was in response to the Israeli government's agreeing to transfer several West Bank towns to Palestinian control...