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South Korea
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South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is a sovereign state in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. The earliest Korean pottery dates to 8000 BC, with three kingdoms flourishing in the 1st century BC and its rich and vibrant culture left 19 UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritages of Humanity, the third largest in the world, along with 12 World Heritage Sites. Annexed into Imperial Japan in 1910, Korea was divided after its surrender in 1945, peace has since mostly continued with the two agreeing to work peacefully for reunification and the South solidifying peace as a regional power with the worlds 10th largest defence budget. South Koreas tiger economy soared at an average of 10% for over 30 years in a period of rapid transformation called the Miracle on the Han River. A long legacy of openness and focus on innovation made it successful, today, it is the worlds fifth largest exporter with the G20s largest budget surplus and highest credit rating of any country in East Asia. It has free trade agreements with 75% of the economy and is the only G20 nation trading freely with China, the US. Since 1988, its constitution guarantees a liberal democracy with high government transparency, high personal freedoms led to the rise of a globally influential pop culture such as K-pop and K-drama, a phenomenon called the Korean Wave, known for its distinctive fashionable and trendy style. Home of the UN Green Climate Fund and GGGI, South Korea is a leader in low carbon growth, committed to helping developing countries as a major DAC. It is the third least ignorant country in the Index of Ignorance, ranking eighth highest for peaceful tolerance. It is the worlds largest spender on R&D per GDP, leading the OECD in graduates in science, the name Korea derives from the name Goryeo. The name Goryeo itself was first used by the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo in the 5th century as a form of its name. The 10th-century kingdom of Goryeo succeeded Goguryeo, and thus inherited its name, the modern spelling of Korea first appeared in the late 17th century in the travel writings of the Dutch East India Companys Hendrick Hamel. After Goryeo was replaced by Joseon in 1392, Joseon became the name for the entire territory. The new official name has its origin in the ancient country of Gojoseon, in 1897, the Joseon dynasty changed the official name of the country from Joseon to Daehan Jeguk. The name Daehan, which means great Han literally, derives from Samhan, however, the name Joseon was still widely used by Koreans to refer to their country, though it was no longer the official name. Under Japanese rule, the two names Han and Joseon coexisted, there were several groups who fought for independence, the most notable being the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. Following the surrender of Japan, in 1945, the Republic of Korea was adopted as the name for the new country. Since the government only controlled the part of the Korean Peninsula
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Hoseo
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Hoseo is a region coinciding with the former Chungcheong Province in what is now South Korea. Today, the term refers to Daejeon, Sejong City, South Chungcheong Province, the name is often used to refer to people residing in the region. Nowadays chungcheong is more frequently used instead of Hoseo
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Administrative divisions of South Korea
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South Korea is made up of 17 first-tier administrative divisions,6 metropolitan cities,1 special city,1 special self-governing city, and 9 provinces, including one special self-governing province. These are further subdivided into a variety of entities, including cities, counties, districts, towns, townships, neighborhoods and villages. The governors of the divisions are elected every four years. A si is one of the divisions of a province, along with gun, cities have a population of at least 150,000, once a county attains that population, it becomes a city. Cities with a population of over 500,000 are divided into districts, Gimhae, Hwaseong, gus are then further divided into neighborhoods, cities with a population of less than 500,000 do not have wards – these cities are directly divided into neighborhoods. A gun is one of the divisions of a province, and of the cities of Busan, Daegu, Incheon. A gun has a population of less than 150,000, is densely populated than a gu. Gun are comparable to British non-metropolitan districts, counties are divided into towns and districts. Specially, the size of a gun is less than a US county, a gu is equivalent to district in the West. Most cities are divided into gu, though the cities of Busan, Daegu, Incheon. Gu are similar to boroughs in some Western countries, and a gu office handles many of the functions that would be handled by the city in other jurisdictions, an eup is similar to the unit of town. Along with myeon, an eup is one of the divisions of a county, the main town or towns in a county—or the secondary town or towns within a citys territory—are designated as eup. In order to form an eup, the population required is 20,000. A myeon is one of the divisions – along with eup – of a county, myeons have smaller populations than eup and represent the rural areas of a county or city. The minimum population limit is 6,000, a dong is the primary division of districts, and of those cities which are not divided into districts. The dong is the smallest level of government to have its own office. In some cases, a legal dong is divided into several administrative dong. Administrative dong are usually distinguished from one another by number, in such cases, each administrative dong has its own office and staff
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North Chungcheong Province
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North Chungcheong Province, officially Chungcheongbuk-do, is a province in the centre of South Korea. It was formed in 1896 from the half of the former Chungcheong province. Chungcheongbuk-do is the only land-locked province in South Korea, the province is mostly mountainous, dominated by the Noryeong Mountains to the north and the Sobaek Mountains to the east. Agricultural products includes rice, barley, beans, and potatoes, the tobacco was introduced from the US in 1912, transplanted from Virginia. There are mineral reserves of gold, iron, coal, steatite, fluorite, silk weaving plays an important role. The main attractions in the province are Mount Songni in the Sobaek mountains, beopjusa, the site of one of the oldest temples of Korea is located in this national park, as in Guinsa, the headquarters of the Cheontae sect. There is another national park around Mount Worak, Chungcheongbuk-do is divided into 3 cities and 8 counties. Each entity is listed below in English, Hangul, and Hanja, according to the census of 2005, of the people of Chungcheongbuk-do 23. 8% follow Buddhism and 25% follow Christianity. 51. 2% of the population is not religious or follow Muism
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Chungju
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Chungju is a city in North Chungcheong province, South Korea. Namsan is a located on the outskirts of the city. The city is famous for the martial arts festival held in October. Also of note, UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon grew up here and this defeat resulted in King Seonjo fleeing from Hanseong to Pyongyang. Chungju Dam is the countrys biggest multi-purpose dam that links together Chungju and it creates a manmade lake with a vast body of water. Woraksan Mt and Songnae valley are located nearby, additionally, this area has cherished cave area/springs. The 2013 World Rowing Championships were held at Tangeum Lake, Chungju between August 25 – September 1, Chungju is famous for its production of apples. The principal reasons being because of the amount of daylight received. The growing of apples started 300 years ago from China and it was 1912 when the city began to plant trees. The scale is the greatest in Chungcheongbuk-do, there are two universities in Chungju, Konkuk University and Chungju University. As well as being the home to these two Universities, Chungju also has primary, middle and high schools with excellent classroom facilities. There is one school, Chungju Chinese Elementary School. List of cities in South Korea Tangeum Lake City government home page
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Geum River
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The Geum River is located in South Korea. It is a river that originates in Jangsu-eup, North Jeolla Province. The river is 401 kilometres long, making it the third longest in South Korea, the area of the Geum River Basin is 9,859 square kilometres. The upper part of the river flows slowly through part of the Noryeong Mountains and is marked by extensive stream meandering, on the other hand, river curves on middle and lower parts of the river are more gradual and there is comparatively less stream meandering. Tributary streams of the Geum include the Gap-cheon, Yugu-cheon, Miho-cheon, Unsan-cheon, Seokseong-cheon, several small alluvial plains including the Honam and Nonsan Plain have been formed by the flow of the Geum and its tributaries. In the area of Buyeo County, the bears the name Baengma-gang. Numerous legends associate the ancient kingdom of Baekje with the Baengma, the Baengma River is the subject of a well-known song of the sin minyo tradition, Kkumkkuneun Baengma-gang. Bronze Culture flourished in area from c.850 B. C. -A. D. Archaeological evidence suggests some of the very first complex societies in southern Korea briefly flourished in the valleys formed by tributaries of this river. The Geum River Basin contained the chiefdoms of Mahan, and a former centres of the kingdom of Baekje such as Ungjin. The rivers Korean name is a homonym of the word for diamond, dams have been built on the Middle and Upper Geum to facilitate water for agriculture and industry. They include the Daecheong Dam and the Yongdam Dam, the city of Greater Daejeon and the farms and industries of South Chungcheong Province rely heavily on the Geum River and its tributaries. The alluvial plains formed by the Geum and its tributaries are the locations of significant agricultural production in Korea, Rivers of Asia Rivers of Korea List of Korea-related topics Geography of South Korea
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Precipitation
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In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, graupel, Precipitation occurs when a portion of the atmosphere becomes saturated with water vapor, so that the water condenses and precipitates. Thus, fog and mist are not precipitation but suspensions, because the vapor does not condense sufficiently to precipitate. Two processes, possibly acting together, can lead to air becoming saturated, Precipitation forms as smaller droplets coalesce via collision with other rain drops or ice crystals within a cloud. Short, intense periods of rain in scattered locations are called showers, moisture that is lifted or otherwise forced to rise over a layer of sub-freezing air at the surface may be condensed into clouds and rain. This process is active when freezing rain is occurring. A stationary front is often present near the area of freezing rain, provided necessary and sufficient atmospheric moisture content, the moisture within the rising air will condense into clouds, namely stratus and cumulonimbus. Eventually, the droplets will grow large enough to form raindrops. Lake-effect snowfall can be locally heavy, thundersnow is possible within a cyclones comma head and within lake effect precipitation bands. In mountainous areas, heavy precipitation is possible where upslope flow is maximized within windward sides of the terrain at elevation, on the leeward side of mountains, desert climates can exist due to the dry air caused by compressional heating. The movement of the trough, or intertropical convergence zone. Precipitation is a component of the water cycle, and is responsible for depositing the fresh water on the planet. Approximately 505,000 cubic kilometres of water falls as precipitation each year,398,000 cubic kilometres of it over the oceans and 107,000 cubic kilometres over land. Given the Earths surface area, that means the globally averaged annual precipitation is 990 millimetres, Climate classification systems such as the Köppen climate classification system use average annual rainfall to help differentiate between differing climate regimes. Precipitation may occur on celestial bodies, e. g. when it gets cold, Mars has precipitation which most likely takes the form of frost. Precipitation is a component of the water cycle, and is responsible for depositing most of the fresh water on the planet. Approximately 505,000 km3 of water falls as precipitation each year,398,000 km3 of it over the oceans, given the Earths surface area, that means the globally averaged annual precipitation is 990 millimetres. Mechanisms of producing precipitation include convective, stratiform, and orographic rainfall, Precipitation can be divided into three categories, based on whether it falls as liquid water, liquid water that freezes on contact with the surface, or ice
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Relative humidity
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Relative humidity is the ratio of the partial pressure of water vapor to the equilibrium vapor pressure of water at a given temperature. Relative humidity depends on temperature and the pressure of the system of interest and it requires less water vapor to attain high relative humidity at low temperatures, more water vapour is required to attain high relative humidity in warm or hot air. Humans are sensitive to high humidity because the body uses evaporative cooling, enabled by perspiration. Perspiration evaporates from the more slowly under humid conditions than under arid. For example, if the air temperature is 24 °C and the humidity is zero percent. If the relative humidity is 100 percent at the air temperature. In other words, if the air is 24 °C and contains saturated water vapor, then the human body cools itself at the rate as it would if it were 27 °C. The heat index and the humidex are indices that reflect the effect of temperature. In cold climates, the temperature causes lower capacity for water vapour to flow about. Dry cracked skin can result from dry air, low humidity causes tissue lining nasal passages to dry, crack and become more susceptible to penetration of Rhinovirus cold viruses. Low humidity is a cause of nosebleeds. The use of a humidifier in homes, especially bedrooms, can help with these symptoms, indoor relative humidities should be kept above 30% to reduce the likelihood of the occupants nasal passages drying out. Humans can be comfortable within a range of humidities depending on the temperature—from thirty to seventy percent—but ideally between 50% and 60%. Very low humidity can create discomfort, respiratory problems, and aggravate allergies in some individuals, in the winter, it is advisable to maintain relative humidity at 30 percent or above. Extremely low relative humidities may also cause eye irritation, wooden furniture can shrink, causing the paint that covers these surfaces to fracture. When the temperature is low and the humidity is high. When relative humidity approaches 100 percent, condensation can occur on surfaces, leading to problems with mold, corrosion, decay, condensation can pose a safety risk as it can promote the growth of mold and wood rot as well as possibly freezing emergency exits shut. The basic principles for buildings, above, also apply to vehicles, in addition, there may be safety considerations
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Sunshine duration
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It is a general indicator of cloudiness of a location, and thus differs from insolation, which measures the total energy delivered by sunlight over a given period. Sunshine duration is usually expressed in hours per year, or in hours per day, the first measure indicates the general sunniness of a location compared with other places, while the latter allows for comparison of sunshine in various seasons in the same location. Another often-used measure is percentage ratio of recorded bright sunshine duration, an important use of sunshine duration data is to characterize the climate of sites, especially of health resorts. This also takes account the psychological effect of strong solar light on human well-being. It is often used to promote tourist destinations, if the Sun were to be above the horizon 50% of the time for a standard year consisting of 8,760 hours, apparent maximal daytime duration would be 4,380 hours for any point on Earth. However, there are physical and astronomical effects that change that picture, namely, atmospheric refraction allows the Sun to be still visible even when it physically sets below the horizon. For that reason, average daytime is longest in polar areas, places on the Arctic Circle have the longest total annual daytime,4,647 hours, while the North Pole receives 4,575. Because of elliptic nature of the Earths orbit, the Southern Hemisphere is not symmetrical, the Equator has a total daytime of 4,422 hours per year. Given the theoretical maximum of daytime duration for a given location, bright sunshine hours represent the total hours when the sunlight is stronger than a specified threshold, as opposed to just visible hours. Visible sunshine, for example, occurs around sunrise and sunset, measurement is performed by instruments called sunshine recorders. For the specific purpose of sunshine duration recording, Campbell–Stokes recorders are used, when the intensity exceeds a pre-determined threshold, the tape burns. The total length of the trace is proportional to the number of bright hours. Another type of recorder is the Jordan sunshine recorder, newer, electronic recorders have more stable sensitivity than that of the paper tape. In 2003, the duration was finally defined as the period during which direct solar irradiance exceeds a threshold value of 120 W/m². The sky is clear in these regions, and fair weather is virtually perpetual, the descending branch of the Hadley cell and the long-term lack of atmospheric disturbances helps to explain the seemingly endless supply of sunny, cloud-free days in the deserts. Low clouding conditions are associated with rainfall shortage, as seen in these dry regions. In the belt encompassing northern Chad and the Tibesti Mountains, northern Sudan, southern Libya, some places in the interior of the Arabian Peninsula receive 3, 600–3,800 hours of bright sunshine annually. The largest sun-baked region in the world is North Africa, the sunniest month in the world is December in Eastern Antarctica, with almost 23 hours of bright sun daily
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Heungdeok-gu
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Heungdeok-gu is a non-autonomous district in the City of Cheongju in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. Heungdeok-gu was re-established from a part of Heungdeok-gu and a part of Cheongwon-gun in July 2014, the newly created Seowon-gu annexed the part of Heungdeok-gu. Heungdeok-gu is divided into one town,2 townships, and 8 neighbourhoods
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Sangdang-gu
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Sangdang-gu is a non-autonomous district in the city of Cheongju in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. Sangdang-gu was re-established from a part of Sangdang-gu and a part of Cheongwon-gun in July 2014, the newly created Cheongwon-gu annexed the part of Sangdang-gu. Sangdang-gu is divided into 5 townships and 8 neighborhoods
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Ministry of Food and Drug Safety
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The main goal is to offer people safe foods and drugs. The headquarters are located in the Osong Health Technology Administration Complex in Cheongwon County, in April 1996, Korea Food and Drug Safety and its six regional offices were established. It was raised to the status of administration, in 1998, in 2004, the organization was restructured with the creation of Medical Devices Management Division and Bioproduct Technical Support Division. In March 2013, the organization was restructured and upgraded to a ministry
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Jikji
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Jikji is the abbreviated title of a Korean Buddhist document, whose title can be translated Anthology of Great Buddhist Priests Zen Teachings. Printed during the Goryeo Dynasty in 1377, it is the worlds oldest extant book printed with movable metal type, UNESCO confirmed Jikji as the worlds oldest metalloid type in September 2001 and includes it in the Memory of the World Programme. Jikji was published in Heungdeok Temple in 1377,78 years prior to Johannes Gutenbergs acclaimed 42-Line Bible printed during the years 1452–1455. The greater part of the Jikji is now lost, and today only the last volume survives, and is kept at the Manuscrits Orientaux division of the National Library of France. The Jikji was written by the Buddhist monk Baegun, who served as the chief priest of Anguk and Shingwang temples in Haeju, Baegun died in Chwiam Temple in Yeoju in 1374. The Jikji comprises a collection of excerpts from the analects of the most revered Buddhist monks throughout successive generations, gyeonghan compiled it as a guide for students of Buddhism, then Koreas national religion under the Goryeo Dynasty. The text propounds on the essentials of Seon, the predecessor to Japans Zen Buddhism, the Jikji consists of two volumes. The metal-print Jikji that was published in Heungdeok Temple is kept in the Manuscrits Orientaux division of the National Library of France, a wood-carving print of Jikji published in Chwiamsa Temple contains the complete two volumes. This is kept in the National Library of Korea and Jangsagak, on the last page of Jikji is recorded details of its publication, indicating that it was published in the 3rd Year of King U by metal type at Heungdeok temple in Cheongju. The Jikji originally consisted of two volumes totaling 307 chapters, but the first volume of the printed version is no longer extant. The surviving metal types dimensions are 24.6 x 17.0 cm and its paper is very slight and white. The whole text is doubly folded very slightly, the title of Jikji also seems to be written with an Indian ink after the original. The cover on the volume of the metal type edition records in French The oldest known Korean book printed with molded type, with 1377 as date. The lines are not straight, but askew, the difference of the thickness of ink color shown on drawn letter paper is large, and spots often occur. Even some characters, such as day or one, are written reversely, the same typed letters are not shown on the same paper, but the same typed letters appear on other leaves. There are also blurs and spots around the characters. Toward the end of the Joseon Dynasty, a French diplomat bought in Seoul the second volume of the Jikji and took it to France, which has since preserved it at the National Library of France in Paris. ”Today only 38 sheets of the second volume of the metal print edition are extant. Plancy, who had majored in law in France and went on to study Chinese, had for six years served as translator at the French Legation in China between 1877 and 1883, in 1888 he came to Seoul as the first French consul to Korea, staying until 1891
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Cheongju International Airport
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Cheongju International Airport is an international airport in Cheongwon-gu, South Korea. It also serves the cities of Daejeon and Sejong, in 2011,1,337,791 passengers used the airport. It also houses the 17th fighter wing of the ROKAF, there is a railway station next to the airport, called Cheongju Airport station, which is on the Chungbuk Line. Cheongju International Airport is located at Ipsang-ri, Naesu-eup, Cheongwon-gu, Cheongju, a railway station is located nearby. It opened as an airbase in September 1978, and in 1984. The construction was completed on December 1996, and it was opened as Cheongju International Airport on April 28,1997, during the mid 80s, Cheongju was selected as a possible site for Koreas main international airport before Incheon became the preferred location. It can process 1.23 million people from domestic flights and 1.15 million people from international flights annually, in addition, airplanes can operate 196,000 times a year. There used to be flights to Busan and Saipan, but they were stopped due to low ridership, currently, there are domestic flights to Jeju and limited international flights to China, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand. It has a facility for parking 1,100 vehicles directly opposite to the passenger terminal, the facility is open between 6,30 and 22,00. List of Korea-related topics Transportation in South Korea Cheongju Airport Official page
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Chungbuk Line
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The Chungbuk Line is a railway line serving North Chungcheong Province in South Korea. The line connects Jochiwon on the Gyeongbu Line to Bongyang on the Jungang Line, Cheongju International Airport is located near the rail line. The rest section of the line was opened on January 10,1959, until the 1980er years the section Osong–Baongyang was reconstructed with the double track and the part of the railway was moved. The entire line was electrified on 30 March 2005, on September 1,2010, the South Korean government announced a strategic plan to reduce travel times from Seoul to 95% of the country to under 2 hours by 2020. As part of the plan, the Chungbuk Line is to be upgraded for 230 km/h, korail List of Korea-related topics Japanese Government Railways, 鉄道停車場一覧. 昭和12年10月1日現在, Kawaguchi Printing Company, Tokyo, p 507
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Tertiary education
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Tertiary education, also referred to as third stage, third level, and post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of a school providing a secondary education. Tertiary education generally culminates in the receipt of certificates, diplomas, Tertiary education includes further education, as well as higher education. Since the 1970s specialized FE colleges called “tertiary colleges” have been set up to courses such as A Levels. An early example of this expanded in September 1982 as part of a reorganization of education in the Halesowen area which also saw three-tier education axed after just 10 years in force. In some areas where schools do not universally offer sixth forms, unlike sixth form colleges, the staff join lecturers rather than teachers unions. Within Australia Tertiary Education refers to continuing studies after a students Higher School Certificate and it also refers to any education a student receives after there final compulsory schooling, which occurs at the age of 17 within Australia. Tertiary Education options include University, TAFE or private colleges, List of countries by tertiary education attainment Education by country List of universities and colleges by country Brick, Jean. Academic Culture, A Students Guide to Studying at University, sydney, N. S. W, National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research
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Chungbuk National University
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Chungbuk National University is one of ten Flagship Korean National Universities. It takes its name, Chungbuk, from the abbreviated form of the provinces Korean name. Chungbuk National University is located in the central-west part of Cheongju city, by 2014, The university is made up of 15 colleges,83 departments, and 9 graduate schools. There are 36 research institutes that serve as centers for the faculty research activities. Other supporting organizations include the University Libraries, the University Museum, the Center for Research Instruments and Experimental Facilities, there are over 18,000 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs at Chungbuk National University, with 755 faculty members. CBNU welcomes students from all over the world to join in its academic experience, dongah-Ilbo newspaper ranked CBNU 2nd in the Korean Internet sector. CBNU is the university that has been awarded the specialized program grant in the semiconductor. As an outcome, the College of Engineering won approximately US$25,000,000 from the government for the training of quality manpower, as required in industry, by providing experience-based programs. The Health, Medicine, and Life Science Program at Osong, near Cheongju, will become the center for health, medicine and life science related government offices, industries, CBNU will be a major element of this enterprise. The Korea Science and Engineering Foundation designated the Center for Advanced Horticultural Technology Development, KOSEF annually donate approximately $1,000,000 in grant money to the Center. The super-speed computer network will enable all students to get personal internet IDs, most classrooms are equipped with multimedia devices, which include PCs, LCD projectors, and data viewers. The university strategy is divided into fourfields, BT, IT, NT, and the fields of agriculture, forestry, selected as the leading school for the program, Brain Korea 21, which is assisting regional universities
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Korea Air Force Academy
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Korea Air Force Academy is a Republic of Korea Air Force institution for the undergraduate education and military training of officers. It is located at Cheongju, Chungbuk, South Korea, the current superintendent of the Academy is Lieutenant General Oh, Chang Hwan. Seongmudae is another name of the academy, the Academy was founded as the Aviation Academy at Gimpo in 1949, which later in the same year was renamed into its current name. During the Korean War, the Academy was moved to Mosulpo Base, Jeju and again to Jinhae Base, the Academy was given its other name Seongmudae in 1966 by then President Park Chung-hee. In 1985 the Academy was moved to its current base in Cheongju, KAFA became the first of the three Korean military academies to allow female cadets to enter in 1997. The campus is located in the part of the country at Cheongju. Cadet Wing, Faculty Board and the Base Group are the main divisions along with the Academy Headquarters, Administration Division, cadets of the Academy do not have to pay any tuition but need to serve at least ten years in the Air Force. It has a number of international exchage cadets such as Japan, Turkey, since no pilot training is included in the curricula, all the graduates who pass the physical test are supposed to enter the pilot training after graduation. Republic of Korea military academies Korea Military Academy The Naval Academy of Korea Korea Air Force Academy
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Korea National University of Education
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Korea National University of Education is a South Korean national university which specializes in teacher training and educational research. It comprises four colleges and three graduate schools, the student body consists of about 2,400 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. The university is regarded as the top South Korean university in the field of education. As the most prestigious institution for teacher training and educational research, the university collectively prepares kindergarten, primary school. It also provides continuous teacher education and conducts educational research. The university conducts pre-teacher training in undergraduate course and it offer dual majors regardless of kindergarten, primary, or secondary education. Also, it trains teachers in graduate schools. The university runs the Center for In-service Education which provides reeducation and it enhances the professionality of the Staff Development Programs. The university develops the capability of teachers to solve problems on the school-site and it explores educational theories and problems in school education and develops new educational theories, materials and policies. The university also makes a feedback of results from school educators. Admissions to the university is highly selective because the students are regarded as pre-service teachers, all applicants are required to get a letter of recommendation from each local educational superintendent and pass the entry interviews. Students are admitted by major instead of into a general freshman pool, the university offers scholarships to all undergraduate students. They are exempted from admission fee and all tuition fees by presidential decree and these are fully covered through government funding. Four colleges of the university offer 24 undergraduate degree programs, for master and doctoral programs there are three graduate schools with 50 programs from four fields of studies
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Tottori, Tottori
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Tottori is the capital city of Tottori Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of Japan. As of June 1,2016, the city has an population of 192,912. The total area is 765.31 km2, within Japan the city is best known for its sand dunes which are a popular tourist attraction, drawing visitors from outside of the prefecture. The sand dunes are important as a centre for research into arid agriculture. Most of Tottori is located in the part of the Sanin Kaigan Geopark. The citys main street runs north from the station and terminates at the foot of the Kyushouzan mountain, around this mountain lies the oldest part of the city. Its centre is the now ruined Tottori Castle, once the property of the Ikeda clan daimyō who ruled the Tottori Domain during the Edo period and it is open to the public, and is the site of the Castle Festival in autumn each year. In the vicinity are temples, museums, and public parks, an exceptionally big example of a Shan-shan umbrella graces the main foyer of Tottori Station. At the beginning of summer, Tottori is host to one of the biggest beach parties in the country. The event lasts a weekend and some top names on the national DJ circuit are invited to perform. Tottori was incorporated as a city on October 1,1889, most of the downtown area was destroyed by the Tottori earthquake of September 10,1943, which killed over 1000 people. The organization AFS for exchange students is relatively developed in Tottori, exchange students who come to Tottori can experience countryside life and enjoy traditional Japanese customs through the many events organized by the Tottori AFS. Redistricting of the borders in November 2004 increased its size to include a number of surrounding areas. On November 1,2004, the town of Kokufu, the village of Fukube, the towns of Aoya, Ketaka and Shikano, the towns of Kawahara and Mochigase, Ketaka District was dissolved as a result of this merger. The main campus of Tottori University, a public university, is located next to Koyama Lake on the west end of the city. The privately funded Tottori University of Environmental Studies is located in the part of Tottori city. These two universities are not to be confused with the 2-year junior college in the prefecture, Tottori College, in the citys downtown shopping district, Tottori Station offers regularly scheduled local and express train service on the JR West rail line. Travel time from Osaka is approximately 2 hours 30 minutes, Tottori Citys local and inter-city Bus Terminal is also conveniently located next to Tottori Station
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Tottori Prefecture
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Tottori Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region. The capital is the city of Tottori and it is the least populous prefecture in Japan. The word Tottori in Japanese is formed from two kanji characters, the first, 鳥, means bird and the second, 取 means to get. Early residents in the made their living catching the regions plentiful waterfowl. The name first appears in the Nihon shoki in the 23rd year of the Emperor Suiko when Yukuha Tana, the imperial Prince Homatsu-wake was unable to speak, despite being 30 years of age. Yukuha Tana presented the swan to the emperor, Homatsu-wake no Mikoto played with this swan and at least learned to speak. Therefore, Yukaha Tana was liberally rewarded, and was granted the title of Tottori no Miyakko, Tottori Prefecture was settled very early in the prehistoric period of Japan, as evidenced by remains from the Jōmon period. The prefecture has the remains of the largest known Yayoi period settlement in Japan, numerous kofun tumuli from the Kofun period are located across the prefecture. In 645, under the Taika reforms, the area in present-day Tottori Prefecture became two provinces, Hōki and Inaba. During the Genpei War between the Taira and Minamoto clans in the period, Tottori became a base for anti-Taira forces. By the beginning of the Kamakura period shōen estates were established to support the Imperial court. Successive clans controlled the region during the Sengoku period, most notably the Yamana clan, the Tokugawa shogunate installed the Ikeda clan at Tottori Castle. The clan retained control of the area throughout the Edo period. The two provinces remained in place until the Meiji Restoration in 1868, and the boundaries of Tottori Prefecture were established in 1888, in the postwar period land reform was carried out in the prefecture, resulting in a great increase of agricultural production. Tottori is home to the Tottori Sand Dunes, Japans only large dune system, Mount Misumi is located within the former area of Mochigase that was merged into the city of Tottori in 2004. Four cities are located in Tottori Prefecture, These are the towns and villages in each district, Tottori Prefecture is heavily agricultural and its products are shipped to the major cities of Japan. Some of the products are the nashi pear, nagaimo yam, Japanese scallion, negi. The prefecture is also a producer of rice
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Japan
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Japan is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea, the kanji that make up Japans name mean sun origin. 日 can be read as ni and means sun while 本 can be read as hon, or pon, Japan is often referred to by the famous epithet Land of the Rising Sun in reference to its Japanese name. Japan is an archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, the country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions. Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one, the population of 127 million is the worlds tenth largest. Japanese people make up 98. 5% of Japans total population, approximately 9.1 million people live in the city of Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Archaeological research indicates that Japan was inhabited as early as the Upper Paleolithic period, the first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other regions, mainly China, followed by periods of isolation, from the 12th century until 1868, Japan was ruled by successive feudal military shoguns who ruled in the name of the Emperor. Japan entered into a period of isolation in the early 17th century. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan is a member of the UN, the OECD, the G7, the G8, the country has the worlds third-largest economy by nominal GDP and the worlds fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the worlds fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer, although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the worlds eighth-largest military budget, used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan is a country with a very high standard of living. Its population enjoys the highest life expectancy and the third lowest infant mortality rate in the world, in ancient China, Japan was called Wo 倭. It was mentioned in the third century Chinese historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms in the section for the Wei kingdom, Wa became disliked because it has the connotation of the character 矮, meaning dwarf. The 倭 kanji has been replaced with the homophone Wa, meaning harmony, the Japanese word for Japan is 日本, which is pronounced Nippon or Nihon and literally means the origin of the sun. The earliest record of the name Nihon appears in the Chinese historical records of the Tang dynasty, at the start of the seventh century, a delegation from Japan introduced their country as Nihon
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Wuhan
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Wuhan is the capital of Hubei province, China, and is the most populous city in Central China. It lies in the eastern Jianghan Plain at the intersection of the reaches of the Yangtze. Because of its key role in transportation, Wuhan was sometimes referred to as the Chicago of China by foreign sources. Holding sub-provincial status, Wuhan is recognized as the political, economic, financial, cultural, educational, the city of Wuhan, first termed as such in 1927, has a population of 10,607,700 people as of 2015. In the 1920s, Wuhan was the capital of a leftist Kuomintang government led by Wang Jingwei in opposition to Chiang Kai-shek. At the 2010 census, its built-up area made of 8 out of 10 urban districts was home to 8,821,658 inhabitants, with a 3, 500-year-long history, Wuhan is one of the most ancient and civilized metropolitan cities in China. During the Han dynasty, Hanyang became a busy port. Around that time, walls were built to protect Hanyang and Wuchang, the latter event marks the foundation of Wuhan. In AD223, the Yellow Crane Tower was constructed on the Wuchang side of the Yangtze River, cui Hao, a celebrated poet of the Tang dynasty, visited the building in the early 8th century, his poem made it the most celebrated building in southern China. The city has long been renowned as a center for the arts, under the Mongol rulers, Wuchang was promoted to the status of provincial capital, by the dawn of the 18th century, Hankou had become one of Chinas top four most important towns of trade. In the late 19th century, railroads were extended on an axis through the city. Also during this period foreign powers extracted mercantile concessions, with the riverfront of Hankou being divided up into foreign-controlled merchant districts and these districts contained trading firm offices, warehouses, and docking facilities. On October 10,1911, Sun Yat-sens followers launched the Wuchang Uprising, Wuhan was the capital of a leftist Kuomintang government led by Wang Jingwei, in opposition to Chiang Kai-shek during the 1920s. S. As the battle raged on through 1938, Wuhan and the region had become the site of the Battle of Wuhan. After being taken by the Japanese in late 1938, Wuhan became a major Japanese logistics center for operations in southern China, in December 1944, the city was largely destroyed by U. S. firebombing raids conducted by the Fourteenth Air Force. In 1967, civil strife struck the city in the Wuhan Incident as a result of tensions arising out of the Cultural Revolution. The city has been subject to devastating floods, which are now supposed to be controlled by the ambitious Three Gorges Dam, a project which was completed in 2008. In December 1858, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, High Commissioner to China, and in the spring of 1861, Counselor Harry Parkes and Admiral Herbert were sent to Wuhan to open a trading port
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Hubei
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Hubei is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located in the Central China region. The name of the province north of the lake, referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The provincial capital is Wuhan, a major thoroughfare and the political, cultural. It borders Henan to the north, Anhui to the east, Jiangxi to the southeast, Hunan to the south, Chongqing to the west, the high-profile Three Gorges Dam is located at Yichang, in the west of the province. The Hubei region was home to sophisticated Neolithic cultures, by the Spring and Autumn period, the territory of todays Hubei was part of the powerful State of Chu. During the Warring States period Chu became the major adversary of the upstart State of Qin to the northwest, which began to assert itself by outward expansionism. As wars between Qin and Chu ensued, Chu lost more and more land, first its dominance over the Sichuan Basin, then its heartland, which correspond to modern Hubei. In 223 BC Qin chased down the remnants of the Chu regime, Qin founded the Qin dynasty in 221 BC, the first unified state in the region. Qin was succeeded by the Han dynasty in 206 BC, which established the province of Jingzhou in what is now Hubei, the Qin and Han played an active role in the agricultural colonization of Hubei, maintaining a system of river dikes to protect farmland from summer floods. Towards the end of the Han Dynasty in the beginning of the 3rd century, the incursion of northern nomadic peoples into the region at the beginning of the 4th century began nearly three centuries of division into a nomad-ruled north and a Han Chinese-ruled south. Hubei, to the South, remained under southern rule for this entire period, until the unification of China by the Sui dynasty in 589. After the Tang dynasty disintegrated in the 10th century, Hubei came under the control of several regional regimes, Jingnan in the center, Wu to the east, and the Five Dynasties to the north. The Song dynasty reunified the region in 982 and placed most of Hubei into Jinghubei Circuit, Mongols conquered the region in 1279, and under their rule the province of Huguang was established, covering Hubei, Hunan, and parts of Guangdong and Guangxi. The Ming dynasty drove out the Mongols in 1368 and their version of Huguang province was smaller, and corresponded almost entirely to the modern provinces of Hubei and Hunan combined. While Hubei was geographically removed from the centers of the Ming power, during the last years of the Ming, todays Hubei was ravaged several times by the rebel armies of Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng. The Manchu Qing dynasty which had much of the region in 1644, soon split Huguang into the provinces of Hubei. The Huangshi/Daye area, south-east of Wuhan, became an important center of mining, in 1911 the Wuchang Uprising took place in modern-day Wuhan, overthrowing the Qing dynasty and establishing the Republic of China. In 1927 Wuhan became the seat of a government established by left-wing elements of the Kuomintang, led by Wang Jingwei, during World War II the eastern parts of Hubei were conquered and occupied by Japan while the western parts remained under Chinese control
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China
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China, officially the Peoples Republic of China, is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia and the worlds most populous country, with a population of over 1.381 billion. The state is governed by the Communist Party of China and its capital is Beijing, the countrys major urban areas include Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Hong Kong. China is a power and a major regional power within Asia. Chinas landscape is vast and diverse, ranging from forest steppes, the Himalaya, Karakoram, Pamir and Tian Shan mountain ranges separate China from much of South and Central Asia. The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, the third and sixth longest in the world, respectively, Chinas coastline along the Pacific Ocean is 14,500 kilometers long and is bounded by the Bohai, Yellow, East China and South China seas. China emerged as one of the worlds earliest civilizations in the basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. For millennia, Chinas political system was based on hereditary monarchies known as dynasties, in 1912, the Republic of China replaced the last dynasty and ruled the Chinese mainland until 1949, when it was defeated by the communist Peoples Liberation Army in the Chinese Civil War. The Communist Party established the Peoples Republic of China in Beijing on 1 October 1949, both the ROC and PRC continue to claim to be the legitimate government of all China, though the latter has more recognition in the world and controls more territory. China had the largest economy in the world for much of the last two years, during which it has seen cycles of prosperity and decline. Since the introduction of reforms in 1978, China has become one of the worlds fastest-growing major economies. As of 2016, it is the worlds second-largest economy by nominal GDP, China is also the worlds largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods. China is a nuclear weapons state and has the worlds largest standing army. The PRC is a member of the United Nations, as it replaced the ROC as a permanent member of the U. N. Security Council in 1971. China is also a member of numerous formal and informal multilateral organizations, including the WTO, APEC, BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the BCIM, the English name China is first attested in Richard Edens 1555 translation of the 1516 journal of the Portuguese explorer Duarte Barbosa. The demonym, that is, the name for the people, Portuguese China is thought to derive from Persian Chīn, and perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit Cīna. Cīna was first used in early Hindu scripture, including the Mahābhārata, there are, however, other suggestions for the derivation of China. The official name of the state is the Peoples Republic of China. The shorter form is China Zhōngguó, from zhōng and guó and it was then applied to the area around Luoyi during the Eastern Zhou and then to Chinas Central Plain before being used as an occasional synonym for the state under the Qing
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Bellingham, Washington
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Bellingham is the largest city in and the county seat of Whatcom County in the U. S. state of Washington. The boundaries of the city encompass the towns of Fairhaven, Whatcom, Sehome. Bellingham is the northernmost city in the contiguous United States with a population of more than 50,000 residents and it is acclaimed for its easy access to outdoor opportunities in the San Juan Islands and North Cascades as well as proximity to the cities of Vancouver and Seattle. It is also famous for the quantities of Canadian tourists and shoppers who visit daily to take advantage of relatively cheap gasoline, airfare. The name of Bellingham is derived from the bay on which the city is situated, George Vancouver, who visited the area in June 1792, named the bay for Sir William Bellingham, the controller of the storekeepers account of the Royal Navy. Prior to Euro-American settlement, Bellingham was in the homeland of Coast Salish peoples of the Lummi, the first Caucasian settlers reached the area in 1854. In 1858, the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush caused thousands of miners, storekeepers, Coal was mined in the Bellingham area from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries. It was Henry Roeder who had discovered coal off the shore of Bellingham Bay. The mine extended to hundreds of miles of tunnels as deep as 1200 feet and it ran southwest to Bellingham Bay, on both sides of Squalicum Creek, an area of about one square mile. At its peak in the 1920s, the mine employed some 250 miners digging over 200,000 tons of coal annually, Whatcom is todays Old Town area and was founded in 1852. Sehome was an area of downtown founded in 1854, Bellingham was further south near Boulevard Park, founded in 1853, while Fairhaven was a large commercial district with its own harbor, also founded in 1853. In 1890, Fairhaven developers bought Bellingham, Whatcom and Sehome had adjacent borders and both towns wanted to merge, thus they formed New Whatcom. Later, on October 27,1903, the word New was dropped from the name, because the Washington State Legislature outlawed the use of the new in city. At first, attempts to combine Fairhaven and Whatcom failed, Whatcom citizens wouldnt support a city named Fairhaven, and Fairhaven residents would not support a city named Whatcom. They eventually settled on the name Bellingham, which remains today, voting a second time for a final merger of the four towns into a single city, the resolution passed by 2163 votes for and 596 against. In the early 1890s, three railroad lines arrived, connecting the bay cities to a market of builders. The foothills around Bellingham were clearcut after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to provide the lumber for the rebuilding of San Francisco. In time, lumber and shingle mills sprang up all over the county to accommodate the byproduct of their work, in 1889, Pierre Cornwall and an association of investors formed the Bellingham Bay Improvement Company
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Washington (state)
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It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State or the State of Washington to distinguish it from Washington, Washington is the 18th largest state with an area of 71,362 square miles, and the 13th most populous state with over 7 million people. Washington is the second most populous state on the West Coast and in the Western United States, Mount Rainier, an active stratovolcano, is the states highest elevation at almost 14,411 feet and is the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous United States. Washington is a leading lumber producer and its rugged surface is rich in stands of Douglas fir, hemlock, ponderosa pine, white pine, spruce, larch, and cedar. Manufacturing industries in Washington include aircraft and missiles, shipbuilding and other equipment, lumber, food processing, metals and metal products, chemicals. Washington has over 1,000 dams, including the Grand Coulee Dam, built for a variety of purposes including irrigation, power, flood control, the Washington Territory was named after George Washington, the first President of the United States. The area was part of a region called the Columbia District after the Columbia River. The area was renamed Washington in order to avoid confusion with the District of Columbia, Washington is the only U. S. state named after a president. To distinguish it from the U. S. capital, which is named for George Washington, Washington is sometimes referred to as Washington State, or, in more formal contexts. Washingtonians and other residents of the Pacific Northwest refer to the state simply as Washington, calling the nations capital Washington, D. C. or, often, Washington is the northwestern-most state of the contiguous United States. Washington is bordered by Oregon to the south, with the Columbia River forming the western part, to the west of Washington lies the Pacific Ocean. The high mountains of the Cascade Range run north-south, bisecting the state, from the Cascade Mountains westward, Western Washington has a mostly marine west coast climate, with mild temperatures and wet winters, autumns and springs, and relatively dry summers. The Cascade Range contains several volcanoes, which reach altitudes significantly higher than the rest of the mountains, from the north to the south, these major volcanoes are Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams. Mount Rainier, the tallest mountain in the state, is 50 miles south of the city of Seattle and it is also covered with more glacial ice than any other peak in the contiguous 48 states. Western Washington also is home of the Olympic Mountains, far west on the Olympic Peninsula and these deep forests, such as the Hoh Rainforest, are among the only temperate rainforests in the continental United States. Eastern Washington – the part of the state east of the Cascades – has a dry climate. It includes large areas of steppe and a few truly arid deserts lying in the rain shadow of the Cascades. Farther east, the climate becomes less arid, with annual rainfall increasing as one goes east to 21.2 inches in Pullman, the Okanogan Highlands and the rugged Kettle River Range and Selkirk Mountains cover much of the northeastern quadrant of the state
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Wayback Machine
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The Internet Archive launched the Wayback Machine in October 2001. It was set up by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, and is maintained with content from Alexa Internet, the service enables users to see archived versions of web pages across time, which the archive calls a three dimensional index. Since 1996, the Wayback Machine has been archiving cached pages of websites onto its large cluster of Linux nodes and it revisits sites every few weeks or months and archives a new version. Sites can also be captured on the fly by visitors who enter the sites URL into a search box, the intent is to capture and archive content that otherwise would be lost whenever a site is changed or closed down. The overall vision of the machines creators is to archive the entire Internet, the name Wayback Machine was chosen as a reference to the WABAC machine, a time-traveling device used by the characters Mr. Peabody and Sherman in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, an animated cartoon. These crawlers also respect the robots exclusion standard for websites whose owners opt for them not to appear in search results or be cached, to overcome inconsistencies in partially cached websites, Archive-It. Information had been kept on digital tape for five years, with Kahle occasionally allowing researchers, when the archive reached its fifth anniversary, it was unveiled and opened to the public in a ceremony at the University of California, Berkeley. Snapshots usually become more than six months after they are archived or, in some cases, even later. The frequency of snapshots is variable, so not all tracked website updates are recorded, Sometimes there are intervals of several weeks or years between snapshots. After August 2008 sites had to be listed on the Open Directory in order to be included. As of 2009, the Wayback Machine contained approximately three petabytes of data and was growing at a rate of 100 terabytes each month, the growth rate reported in 2003 was 12 terabytes/month, the data is stored on PetaBox rack systems manufactured by Capricorn Technologies. In 2009, the Internet Archive migrated its customized storage architecture to Sun Open Storage, in 2011 a new, improved version of the Wayback Machine, with an updated interface and fresher index of archived content, was made available for public testing. The index driving the classic Wayback Machine only has a bit of material past 2008. In January 2013, the company announced a ground-breaking milestone of 240 billion URLs, in October 2013, the company announced the Save a Page feature which allows any Internet user to archive the contents of a URL. This became a threat of abuse by the service for hosting malicious binaries, as of December 2014, the Wayback Machine contained almost nine petabytes of data and was growing at a rate of about 20 terabytes each week. Between October 2013 and March 2015 the websites global Alexa rank changed from 162 to 208, in a 2009 case, Netbula, LLC v. Chordiant Software Inc. defendant Chordiant filed a motion to compel Netbula to disable the robots. Netbula objected to the motion on the ground that defendants were asking to alter Netbulas website, in an October 2004 case, Telewizja Polska USA, Inc. v. Echostar Satellite, No.02 C3293,65 Fed. 673, a litigant attempted to use the Wayback Machine archives as a source of admissible evidence, Telewizja Polska is the provider of TVP Polonia and EchoStar operates the Dish Network
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Jecheon
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Jecheon is a city in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. The city is a railway junction or a transportation mecca, served by the Jungang, Chungbuk. Jecheon has scenic surroundings and several tourist spots like the Uirimji Reservoir, Cheongpung Lake and it is also the home of Semyung University. The citys name derives from the Korean words Je, which means Dam and it is well known for its beautiful mountains and lake environments. Jecheon is well known as the healing city, a wide variety of oriental medicine are available, attracting people all over Korea to visit the city. Seocho-gu, Korea Spokane, Washington, United States Pasay City, Philippines Hualien, Taiwan List of cities in South Korea Jecheon city government home page
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Boeun County
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Boeun County is a county in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. He had caused their deaths during a power struggle years previously, in July 1973, Boeun township was elevated to the status of Boeun town. In 1983, two townships were abolished and incorporated into normal ones, in 2007, Hoebuk-myeon changed its name to Hoein-myeon, Oesongni-myeon to Jangan-myeon, and Naesonngni-myeon into Songnisan-myeonn. Songnisan Fall Festival, During autumn a festival is held at Songnisan, the festival has been an important contributor to the development of tourism and the economy in the region. Boeun Ocher Apple Festival, Boeun County is well known for its apples, Jujube is the most well-known agricultural product in Boeun county. Additionally, the fruit, and eggs are growing in popularity thanks to their eco-friendly mark. City Flower, Forsythia City Tree, Jujube tree City Bird, Magpie Birds Boeun is twinned with, Gwangjin-gu, South Korea Boeun County government home page
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Danyang County
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Danyang County is a county in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. County tree, Yew tree county bird, Magpie county flower and it is very rugged, except in some of the urban areas and villages that can be found in the valleys and hills. The main water system ranges from the stream of the 23.7 km long Namhan River. Pyeongchang River, one of the streams flowing from Odaesan, joins several streams at Jungnyeong, Danyang, the county, which is situated in an inland mountainous area, epitomizes an inland climate with severe variations in temperatures. The annual average temperature reaches 11.2 °C, with the highest at 17.7 °C and the lowest at 5.6 °C, and its annual rainfall averages 1,195.8 mm
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Eumseong County
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Eumseong County is a county in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea, best known for being the birthplace of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Eumseong County is composed of two towns and seven townships, with a population of 98,619 people as of March 31,2013. The most central town is Geumwang, many farmers live in Eumseong County. They host two cultural festivals, the Pumba Festival in the spring and the Gochu Festival in the fall, Eumseong is famous in Korea for its production of high-quality red chili peppers. Eumseong is also renowned for its strawberries, ginseng, watermelon, Eumseong County is home to three different high schools. Eumseong High School is located in the city of Eumseong, Chungbuk Semi-Conductor High School is located in Geumwang, Maegoe is a Catholic all girls middle school as well as a mixed gender high school located at the base of a steep sided hill under a Christ-shaped statue. In addition, GVCS, an English-speaking Christian boarding school, is located in the city of Eumseong, there are two institutes of higher education in Eumseong county that are both located in the township Gamgok - Far East University and Gangdong College. Far East University is a school while Gangdong College has only a two-year program. As of 2013,20 to 30 foreign English teachers live in Eumseong County, who are from countries including the United States of America, Canada, South Africa, England, the name Eumseong means shaded castle and is not to be confused with its homonym human voice. In 1956, Eumseongs status was promoted from township to town, in 1973, Geumwangs status was also promoted to that of a town. Samseong is located in the northwest of Eumseong County, just east of the Jungbu Expressway, the townships bus terminal has connections to Dong Seoul station that take about 1.5 hours as well as connections to other provincial cities and towns. Samseong has a school, an elementary school and several private academies or hagwons. The township is arranged principally around one street, which comprises a market, CU,7 Eleven, Paris Baguette. There are rice paddies between the various factories, in addition there are two sizeable lakes and a mountain named Mai San which is excellent for hiking. Known for spotting wildlife, Samseong was formerly a location for encountering species now thought to be endangered. Gangdong-gu, South Korea Taizhou, China Eumseong county government website, in English
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Jeungpyeong County
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Jeungpyeong County is a county in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. Jeungpyeong is in the located in Chungcheongbuk-do. It is located East of Jincheon, West of Goesan, south of Eumseong, County tree, Ginkgo tree county bird, Snowy Egret county flower, White Magnolia 1990,12,31, Chungcheongbuk-do JeungPyeong local office is construct of Goesan-gun jeungpyeong eup, doan myeon. 2003,8,30, JeungPyeong local office is raised to Jeungpyeong-gun, and it became independence from Goesan-gun
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Jincheon County
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Jincheon County is a county in Chungcheongbuk-do Province, South Korea. Jincheon belongs to the middle of Chungcheongbuk-do and it borders several cities of its province but also meets Gyeonggi-do. The southwestern part of area is mountainous. Farming has quickly moved from the 2nd most successful industry to the contribution of this region. Hyundai Autonet moved its former factories into Jincheon and got to operate from February 2008, CJ also revealed its plan to construct a processing complex. Jincheon holds a World Taekwondo Hwarang festival every year, the festival becomes an opportunity for all fans of Taegwondo to get together in its motherlands. The festival has more meaning as experience, since it not only provides a splendid tour opportunity in Korea, Jincheon is twinned with, Seongdong-gu, South Korea Gangdong-gu, South Korea Vallejo, United States Jincheon County government English-language home page
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