Curated category
Manchuria
- Jewish Autonomous OblastOn the 28th of March 1928, the Presidium of the General Executive Committee of the USSR passed a decree attaching free territory near the Amur River to…
- VladivostokOn the 2nd of July 1860, a military unit under Lieutenant-Commander Alexei Karlovich Shefner arrived at Golden Horn Bay to establish a Russian outpost.
- Queue (hairstyle)The word bian meant plaited hair or a cord in ancient Chinese texts. Han dynasty records applied this term to the Xiongnu tribes of northern China.