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SHI International Corp. (commonly referred to as SHI), headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, is a privately owned provider of IT infrastructure, end-user computing, cybersecurity, and IT optimization products and services. SHI has customers in the non-profit, private, and public sectors. [1] It has 6,000 employees across more than 35 offices ...
IPA. [xǔ xâɪ] Old Chinese. Baxter–Sagart (2014) *Ga-gə′. Qin Er Shi (230/222 – c. October 207 BC [2]) was the second emperor of the Qin dynasty from 210 to 207 BC. The son of Qin Shi Huang, he was born as Ying Huhai. He was put on the throne by Li Si and Zhao Gao, circumventing Fusu, Ying's brother and the designated heir.
Qin's wars of unification were a series of military campaigns launched in the late 3rd century BC by the state of Qin against the other six powers remaining in China — Han, Zhao, Yan, Wei, Chu and Qi. Between 247 and 221 BC, Qin had developed into one of the most powerful of China's Seven Warring States that coalesced in the wake of the Zhou ...
Into Temptation is an independent drama film written and directed by Patrick Coyle. It tells the story of a prostitute—played by Kristin Chenoweth (pictured) —who confesses to a Catholic priest ( Jeremy Sisto) that she plans to kill herself. The priest attempts to find her, and in doing so involves himself in the darker side of society.
Geographic coordinates. 29°16′07″N 88°52′12″E / . 29.26861°N 88.869940°E. / 29.26861; 88.869940. Architecture. Founder. 1st Dalai Lama. Tashi Lhunpo Monastery ( Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་) is an historically and culturally important monastery in Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet ...
Si-sī si̍t sai sú. " Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den " is a short narrative poem written in Literary Chinese that is composed of about 94 characters (depending on the specific version) in which every word is pronounced shi ( [ʂɻ̩]) when read in modern Standard Chinese, a dialect based on the Mandarin Chinese spoken in Beijing, with only ...
t. e. Abu Abdallah al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Zakariyya, [1] better known as Abu Abdallah al-Shi'i ( Arabic: ابو عبد الله الشيعي, romanized : Abū ʿAbd Allāh ash-Shīʿī ), was an Isma'ili missionary ( dāʿī) active in Yemen and North Africa. He was successful in converting and unifying a large part of the Kutama ...
Hepburn romanization (ヘボン式ローマ字, Hebon-shiki rōmaji, lit. 'Hepburn-style Roman letters') is the main system of romanization for the Japanese language.The system was originally published in 1867 by American Christian missionary and physician James Curtis Hepburn as the standard in the first edition of his Japanese–English dictionary.